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Diane's review of  Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss.  You may read the review here .

In this episode of Monday Morning Book Review, Sara talks about The Incredible Journey by Shelia Burnford. You can find the web version of this review here at our website: www.plumfieldandpaideia.com.     The Boy Book List mentioned in this episode can be found here: http://plumfieldandpaideia.com/books-boys-love/     The Animal Book List mentioned in this episode can be found here:  http://plumfi...

Diane's review of Alan Jacobs' book  The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. You may read this review at p lumfieldandpaideia.com . You may buy the book here .

“What poetry does is represent nature.  That can be handy because nature is big and changing and various and hard to look at.  Whereas with somebody with a great eye and a big soul, they could explain it to you.” I heard Dr. Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, say this in a lecture shortly after I had finished reading N.D. Wilson’s  Leepike Ridge.   “Yes!” I thought.  “That is exactly what...

I feel almost silly trying to write a review of  The Awakening of Miss Prim  by Madrid writer Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera when  Joseph Pearce’s piece in The Imaginative Conservative  is light years better than anything I would write. Please understand that my attempt here is not to match his eloquent review. Instead, I hope to draw more attention to this remarkable book by giving it a home on our...

"Every book tells a story and every book has a story. The best books become part of your story. Discover books for the people and moments that matter most." - Biblioguides In this week's  Plumfield In Person episode, Diane and Sara chat with Tanya Arnold and Sarah Kim of Biblioguides.com about their dynamic and evolving reader's database. It was a lot of fun and just the first of many conversation...

When  Bethlehem Books  was having their big summer sale, I combed through their catalog for books that would captivate my reluctant boy reader. My nine-year-old son is a much better reader than he gives himself credit for, but he is easily intimidated by long or text-heavy books. I knew that Bethlehem Books would have some books that would be appealing to boy interests, be short enough to not be t...

The podcast version of this book review can be  found here . “When Mendal was already the far-famed and much-hated rabbi of Kotzak, he once returned to the little town in which he was born. There he visited the teacher who taught him his alphabet when he was a child and read five books of Moses with him. But he did not go to see the teacher who had given him further instruction, and at a chance me...

Marks & Co. 84, charing Cross Rd. London, W. C. 2 England Gentlemen: Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature says that you specialize in out-of-print books. The phrase “antiquarian booksellers” scares me somewhat, as I equate antique with expensive. I am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books and all the things I want are impossible to get over here except very expensive rare ed...

https://plumfieldmoms.com/plumfield-moms-book-reviews/the-guernsey-literary-and-potato-peel-pie-society   Buy on Bookshop.org Buy on Amazon View on Biblioguides Once upon a time, in a book club far, far away some friends got together and read  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society .  I must confess that I instigated the request for the book.  I had read it a while before, and was posit...

Besides loving L. M. Montgomery’s  Anne of Green Gables  because it’s a great story with a timelessly loveable heroine ,  it is special to me because it is one of the few books my mom introduced me to that she had loved when she was young. Montgomery’s  Emily of New Moon  is special to me because my daughter and I discovered her together. I still feel a bit of a traitor because . . . I like Emily...

https://plumfieldmoms.com/plumfield-moms-book-reviews/freckles-a-girl-of-the-limberlost   “The scene was intensely attractive. The thickness of the swamp made a dark, massive background below, while above towered gigantic trees. The men were calling jovially back and forth as they unharnessed tired horses that fell into attitudes of rest and crunched, in deep content, the grain given them. Duncan,...

https://plumfieldmoms.com/plumfield-moms-book-reviews/rose-campbell-books   “Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can…” -Rose In Bloom My friends and readers of this blog are likely to know that I consider Louisa May Alcott to be in my list of very favorite authors. I say  very  favorite even though Diane would remind me that the wor...