Posted September 2, 2015 in Faith, Reading, Review / 2 Comments
And You Are Christ's by
Thomas Dubay Publisher: Ignatius Press (1987)
Paperback (148 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Re-Reading,
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Father Thomas Dubay, one of the foremost authorities on the religious life, discusses one of the most important but not fully appreciated or understood charisms of the consecrated life, the charism of virginity. Although the idea of virginity is unpopular and even despised in modern society, Dubay emphasizes that the importance of evangelical virginity is rooted in its Biblical foundation, both in the Old and New Testaments.
Examining in detail what the call to virginity is and how it is integrated into the whole of consecrated life, Dubay presents his study in such a way as to be of importance to men as well. Noting that a woman, because of her feminine nature and traits, can image and live the Church’s wedded relationship to Christ more realistically, Dubay points out that men with the celibate charism are also members of the virgin Church that is wedded to Christ, just as in the Old Testament the People of God was a virgin bride wedded to Yahweh. The common and distinct elements of male and female consecrated love are fully captured in these pages.
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Posted August 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
The Wrath and the Dawn by
Renee Ahdieh Series: The Wrath and the Dawn #1 (2015)
Hardcover (388 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: The Rose and the Dagger Also in this series: The Rose and the Dagger Reading Challenges: 2015 Fairytale Retelling,
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A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights.
Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend.
She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.
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Posted August 10, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
Daughter of Deep Silence by
Carrie Ryan Publisher: Dutton Children's (2015)
Hardcover (375 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
I’m the daughter of murdered parents.
I’m the friend of a dead girl.
I’m the lover of my enemy.
And I will have my revenge.
In the wake of the devastating destruction of the luxury yacht Persephone, just three souls remain to tell its story—and two of them are lying. Only Frances Mace knows the terrifying truth, and she’ll stop at nothing to avenge the murders of everyone she held dear. Even if it means taking down the boy she loves and possibly losing herself in the process.
Sharp and incisive, Daughter of Deep Silence by bestselling author Carrie Ryan is a deliciously smart revenge thriller that examines perceptions of identity, love, and the lengths to which one girl is willing to go when she thinks she has nothing to lose.
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Posted June 22, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Mortal Heart by
Robin LaFevers Series: His Fair Assassin #3 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014)
Hardcover (444 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Grave Mercy,
Dark Triumph Also in this series: Grave Mercy,
Dark Triumph Reading Challenges: 2015 Finishing the Series,
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Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent. Feeling sorely betrayed, Annith decides to strike out on her own.
She has spent her whole life training to be an assassin. Just because the convent has changed its mind doesn’t mean she has.
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Posted May 14, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
Beauty by
Robin McKinley Publisher: HarperCollins (1978)
Hardcover (247 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Birthday Month,
2015 Fairytale Retelling,
2015 Re-Reading,
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A young woman, well educated and honourable, accepts responsibility for her father’s act and leaves her family to enter the enchanted world of castle and Beast. The Beast she finds is not the one she imagined, but can she stay with him?
A gifted storyteller embellishes the classic tale, developing a new and very real world of her own in a love story that has all the wonder and magic of the fairy tale.
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