The March of Books

The March of Books

Have you read any good books lately?  If not, you’d better hit the local library or visit Paperback Swap, or because we’re planning a “March of Books” for the month of March.  Not only do we have at least a half dozen book reviews and two double book giveaways coming here on ylcf.org, but we’re…

Lasting Love

It is my firmly held belief that each spouse in every marriage ought to perpetually have on his or her nightstand a good book on the topic of marriage. This is not to say, exactly, that John and I are both devouring a new marriage book every day, nor that my primary reading is necessarily…

Summer Reads

Summer Reads

There are some books that you just can’t read in the summer. Last winter, Philip and I whiled away the better part of the January and February evenings with Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend, settling in by the fireside at the end of a long day and losing ourselves amid the intrigues and adventures of a…

Set Apart

Set-Apart Femininity: God’s Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman is unlike the average book at your local Christian book store.  As the title implies, it is most definitely set apart from the rest.  It is not a book about being a happy, fulfilled, Christian woman-at least not in the terms we normally think of happiness…

Invisible Made Visible

Invisible Made Visible

It’s been years since I’ve read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but several snippets of the story remain deeply imprinted on my mind. Especially the long, desolate hallway in the magician’s house: the gauntlet Lucy had to run, in order to rescue those silly Dufflepuds from their inconvenient invisibility. Of course she could imagine…

Of Reading

by Hännah Schlaudt A life in time demands limitation, A choice of one good over another. So many words to read, words you must know. Pick now; tomorrow is no surety. Which words shall I read, and dwell with now? Stacked around me, my books are tower’d walls Insulation from thoughts my own (flattened By…

The End.

The End.