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Whether they loved her or hated her, everyone who knew her considered her an amazing and memorable woman. Klaus Barbie, the infamous Butcher of Lyon became obsessed with finding the “Limping Lady of Lyon.” He had posters made and offered a huge reward for information leading to the arrest of “The Enemy’s Most Dangerous Spy.”   https://plumfieldmoms.com/plumfield-moms-book-reviews/virginia-hall-an-...

"Don’t you love this sort of pithy proverb? You can toss the platitude to a teenager whose friends you don’t approve of with the assurance that its truth is indisputable and needs no context – exactly the way we like our favorite Bible verses.      Because the maxim is simple to understand and examples of its truth abound, it was a perfect topic for an essay assignment for my writing class. Since...

Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis Perelandra by C. S. Lewis   The Biblioguides Online Community – Plumfield Reads  The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis  The Screwtape Letter by C. S. Lewis  The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis George MacDonald  Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis  The Walking Drum by Louis L’Amour  The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler by William Shirer Landmark Book Club : The Rise an...

Part of the plan to sneak the gold out right under the noses of the Nazis involves teams of Riswyk children each carrying 75 pounds of gold on their sleds down to a fjord where the crew of a fishing boat waits to load the gold for transportation to America.      The plan works seamlessly. Until the snow starts to melt before they have transported half the gold. And until the Nazi Commandant decide...

"What child wouldn’t love to discover a living dinosaur in the backyard? What if that dinosaur could talk? That’s what happens to Joey and Joan Brown, freckled, red-headed twelve-year-old twins. On the first few pages of the story, we are made aware of the family Problem."    https://plumfieldmoms.com/plumfield-moms-book-reviews/the-shy-stegosaurus-of-cricket-creek  

The Pharisees dogged Jesus so relentlessly they should have known his teachings as well as his disciples did. It’s tragic that they weren’t trying to learn anything from him other than how to discredit him.   Have I learned what Jesus meant when he said, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice”? It is hard to misunderstand what he means in the first chapter of Isaiah. “‘What to me is the multitude of your...

"If you are a believer, someone had to plant the seed in your mind. Someone else watered it. Acknowledging these gospel gardeners gives us perspective. When it seems like life has been mostly dark, it can remind us that Jesus has been there all the time."

I found that Downton Abbey and the Jeremy Irons Brideshead Revisited miniseries gave my imagination some kind of scaffolding upon which to understand this very subtle, very restrained, and very sophisticated fictional memoir.  To be perfectly frank, I really don’t know what this book is about. I know that it’s about dignity. I know that Mr. Stevens has a great deal of pride and prejudice related t...

"We know Jesus did say, 'Judge not, that you be not judged.' Are we to take this as our motto without context? In this same sermon, Jesus also tells us to beware of false prophets. How will we know true from false if we don’t judge anything?"

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“The historical novels Sally Watson has laid in Great Britain and America are separate and complete, yet are united by a family tree. They romp across four centuries, from 1582 London to 1892 Northern California. No one gets a starring role twice, but main characters sometimes reappear in another book in a relatively minor role as grandparent, sibling, cousin, lover or even a wayward eyebrow. The...

"Do I trust God enough to stand before him with an open mouth and allow him to feed me? Am I absolutely sure that whatever he chooses to put in will be good? My head knows it will. His Word assures me that all his intentions for me are good. Is my heart so convinced that I can open my mouth wide before him and accept whatever he feeds me?"

Books and Links: Space Trilogy Book 1: Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis  Space Trilogy Book 3: That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis  The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien  George MacDonald   Gene Stratton Porter The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis   The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis  Medical Corp Heroes of World War II by Wyatt Blassingame Medical Corp Heroes of World War II Book Club Episode Plum...

The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier is a compelling historical fiction novel written in 1959 about a Polish family torn apart by the Second World War and, happily, reunited afterwards.   https://plumfieldmoms.com/plumfield-moms-book-reviews/the-silver-sword

"When I feel inadequate for the tasks I’m called to, isn't that right where I need to be? It’s only with God’s help that, when called upon, I will be able to run through a whole troop of men, even if they’re all staring at me. With the shield of salvation and God’s right hand to hold me up, I’ll be able to cover more and more ground with my ever-lengthening strides without turning an ankle.  As fo...

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (The Bruce Coville retelling is out of print.) The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare The Tempest by William Shakespeare  Shakespeare Story Book: Folk Tales that Inspired the Bard by Patrick Ryan Let's Play Math by Denise Gaskins A Long Road on a Short Day by Gary D. Schmidt  Gary D. Schmidt  Saturday by Oge Mora Raccoons are the Brightest People by Ste...

Despite being an English major at Hillsdale College, I had never read Frankenstein. Truthfully, I had always avoided it. I thought it was just a gothic novel, like Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, and I hated that book. I also hated Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations . I just do not care for ghost stories or creepy stories of any kind. I can read Flannery O’Con...

"Once they had seen that what the angel said was true, they were to go quickly and tell his disciples that Jesus was alive. They joyfully ran to do just that. I imagine their faces looked like my little sister’s when she saw the piles of gifts. How long was it before they could stop grinning? "These women obediently told Jesus’s disciples that Jesus had risen from the dead. His disciples told othe...

Books and Links: Plumfield Reads Page Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis  Perelandra by C. S. Lewis  That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis  The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis  Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis  Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis  The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis  The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton  The Dark Tower by C. S. Lewis (Lewis is the generally accepted author, but n...

Wow! What a story ! I would have been impressed if The Stout-Hearted Seven had been fiction. To know that it is non-fiction is exhilarating and tragic all at the same time. Reading true stories like this makes things like Marvel movies seem ridiculous. True courage and fortitude are not found in superheroes with capes but in stout-hearted people with a will to follow God’s leading and their own co...

At the moment Jesus yielded up his spirit, onlookers were mocking him. The land had been in darkness for three hours in the middle of the day. At the moment of Jesus' death, the veil in the temple was torn in two and there was a rock-splitting earthquake. Tombs were opened and dead saints came out of them after Jesus’ resurrection. Events were so startling that even the pagan Roman soldiers on gua...

This book is an exquisite introduction to the world-changing advent of machine-printed books. It would also be an excellent starting point for a discussion with older children. Every invention that has been hailed as progress by many has also been met with dire warnings by some. Ancient philosophers cautioned that writing would be the ruin of man’s memory, and in some ways, that has proven true. ...

Living Book Press  Charlotte Mason Charlotte Mason AudioBooks   Howard Pyle Collection  Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif  Railway Children by Edith Nesbit America’s Children Books by James Otis  Hannah of Kentucky by James Otis  How the Heather Looks Audiobook    Let’s Explore the British Isles    First Books  Purple House Press  Little Britches Series by Ralph Moody The Mistmantle Chronicles by M...

Peter says  said our inheritance is being kept in heaven for us. Our salvation is ready to be revealed in the last time. When is that last time? No one knows. It will come like a thief in the night. Be ready.

Join us for the March episode of Our Librarian Life. In addition to Kristi and Sherry,  this month we are joined by Sarah Kim and Tanya Arnold to talk about what Biblioguides is and how we use it as librarians.  Biblioguides.com LibraryThing  TinyCat – librarycat.org Honey for a Child’s Heart by Gladys Hunt Jan Bloom’s Who Should We Then Read Volumes I and II I am David (North to Freedom) by Ann H...