Year: 2015

February 2015 in Review

Posted February 28, 2015 in Faith, Reading / 2 Comments

It is so hard to believe it is the end of February already. This has been a crazy month.

Things that Happened in February

Lent started with Ash Wednesday the beginning of the month.
I got the nasty cold thing going around the school. I have to remember to thank my students for that one.
We had this really great false spring with temperatures in the 60s (Farenheit) and then we were down to the negatives again.
I left town twice this month! This is pretty big when the closest other places are 2+ hours away and there is a lot of snow on the ground.
I spent a great deal of time with my head in a book and I am perfectly okay with that.

Books I Read in February

The Holy Trinity in the Life of the Church

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The Friday 56: The Joy of the Gospel

Posted February 27, 2015 in Faith, Reading / 6 Comments

The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda’s Voice.

Rules

Grab a book, any book.
Turn to page 56 (or 56% on ebook).
Find any sentence that grabs you.
Post it.
Link it at Freda’s Voice.

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Review: Akarnae

Posted February 27, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Akarnae by Lynette Noni
Series: The Medoran Chronicles #1
Publisher: Pantera Press (2015)
eARC (397 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Also by this author: Raelia
Also in this series: Raelia
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Dreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities. Desperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her… but he’s missing.
While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora’s boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can’t ignore her fear that something unexpected… something sinister… is looming.
An unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex’s shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race’s survival. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home?
Will Alex risk her entire world–and maybe even her life–to save Medora?

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Review: Dauntless

Posted February 26, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Dauntless by Dina Sleiman
Series: Valiant Hearts #1
Publisher: Bethany House (2015)
eARC (368 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup, Read 2015

Synopsis

Though once a baron’s daughter, Lady Merry Ellison is willing to go to any lengths to protect the orphaned children of her former village. Dubbed “The Ghosts of Farthingale Forest,” her band of followers soon become enemies of the throne when they hijack ill-gotten gold meant for the king.
Timothy Grey, ninth child of the Baron of Greyham, longs to perform some feat so legendary that he will rise from obscurity and earn a title of his own. When the Ghosts of Farthingale Forest are spotted in Wyndeshire, where he serves as assistant to the local earl, he might have found his chance. But when he comes face-to-face with the leader of the thieves, will he choose fame or love?

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Tagged as 4 star, Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, NetGalley, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge

Review: The Holy Trinity in the Life of the Church

Posted February 25, 2015 in Faith, Reading, Review / 0 Comments

The Holy Trinity in the Life of the Church by Khaled Anatolios
Series: Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History
Publisher: Baker Academic (2014)
eARC (272 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup, Read 2015

Synopsis

In this volume, a noted theologian brings together an ecumenical roster of leading scholars to explore trinitarian faith as it is concretely experienced in the life of the church. Drawing upon and fostering renewed interest in trinitarian theology, the contributors–including Brian E. Daley, John Behr, and Kathleen McVey–clarify the centrality of trinitarian doctrine in salvation, worship, and life. This is the third volume in Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History, a partnership between Baker Academic and the Pappas Patristic Institute of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. The series is a deliberate outreach by the Orthodox community to Protestant and Catholic seminarians, pastors, and theologians.

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