Month: October 2015

{Review} Encountering Truth – Daily Homilies from the Casa Santa Marta

Posted October 19, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Encountering Truth – Daily Homilies from the Casa Santa MartaEncountering Truth by Pope Francis
Publisher: Image (2015)
Hardcover (416 pages)
Via: Blogging for Books
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Also by this author: The Joy of the Gospel, Walking with Jesus, The Name of God is Mercy
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Experience the morning homilies of Pope Francis and witness how he continues to change the life of the Catholic Church.
Shortly after seven in the morning, Pope Francis gives a brief homily in the little Vatican chapel of Saint Martha, in front of an audience that is always different: gardeners, office workers, nuns and priests, as well as a growing group of journalists. It is a set appointment, and in some ways a revolutionary innovation, where a pope speaks to everyone, off the cuff, without any written text, as he would have done as a parish priest.
Encountering Truth is a collection of highlights from these homilies from March 2013 to May 2014. Along with summaries by Radio Vaticana (who recorded and transcribed the homilies) and commentary by Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ, these reflections provide moments of inspiration, simplicity, and a glimpse into the papal world very few ever get to experience.

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{F56} Green Rider

Posted October 16, 2015 in Reading / 10 Comments

 

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Green Rider is one of my all time favorite books of ever. I first found the book when I was in eight grade, I believe, at Waldenbooks before they all closed years ago. I read it so fast and fell in love. Later, in high school, I recommended it to my friend and she loved it as well. We have anxiously awaited each book in the series and bemoaned the multi-year wait (like 3-5 years!!!) between each book.

I reread this series every year because I adore it that much. It is a gloriously epic fantasy novel with amazing world-building, complex characters, and an excellent plot. Even rereading it, I keep turning the pages because I am so drawn into this world. This is definitely a fantasy world I would not be too sad to have to live in. 🙂
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{Review} The Commander – A Sacrificed Short Story = More Riece!!

Posted October 15, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} The Commander – A Sacrificed Short Story = More Riece!!The Commander by Emily Wibberley
Series: The Last Oracle #1.5
Publisher: Paranoid Productions (2015)
eARC (15 pages)
Via: Author
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Also by this author: Sacrificed, Divined
Also in this series: Sacrificed, Forsworn, Divined
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

In this short story addition to Sacrificed (The Last Oracle, Book I), discover Riece’s point of view when he first met his new and beautiful prisoner, Clio, inside Morek’s great pyramid.
This story is best read after Sacrificed but can be read during any point in the series.

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{Review} The Conspiracy of Us – The Rich and Their Mysteries

Posted October 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

{Review} The Conspiracy of Us – The Rich and Their MysteriesThe Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall
Series: The Conspiracy of Us #1
Publisher: Putnam (2015)
Audiobook
{9 hours and 34 minutes} (336 pages)
Via: Library
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Also by this author: Map of Fates
Also in this series: Map of Fates
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Avery West’s newfound family can shut down Prada when they want to shop in peace, and can just as easily order a bombing when they want to start a war. Part of a powerful and dangerous secret society called the Circle, they believe Avery is the key to an ancient prophecy. Some want to use her as a pawn. Some want her dead.
To unravel the mystery putting her life in danger, Avery must follow a trail of clues from the monuments of Paris to the back alleys of Istanbul with two boys who work for the Circle—beautiful, volatile Stellan and mysterious, magnetic Jack. But as the clues expose a stunning conspiracy that might plunge the world into World War 3, she discovers that both boys are hiding secrets of their own. Now she will have to choose not only between freedom and family–but between the boy who might help her save the world, and the one she’s falling in love with.

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