Trina Holden 4 Minute Read Now I desire to encourage other young moms and moms-to-be to make the time to read certain titles before the squalls of full-time motherhood arrive. Get direction now, so that when the winds hit, you’re not scrambling through the rigging trying to figure out which rope to tighten…
Jessica Telian 2 Minute Read When the hills and lower mountains grew mossy-coloured in late spring, I reveled in it. And to celebrate, I usually read some Gene Stratton Porter. Her descriptions of the verdant swamps and woods of the Midwest always added to the general fresh and green feeling of those few months of spring.
Guest Author 4 Minute Read Reading Trina Holden’s eBook Real {Fast} Food is like having your best friend sit you down and tell you what she has learned about food and cooking. It’s an easy to understand and enjoyable read, unlike much of what has been written about preparing whole food.
Chantel 5 Minute Read “I intend to give my life…” Anna Ashwell is a young English girl who was born into the heart of England’s struggle for the abolition of slavery. Though she comes from a family who has been part of the Abolition movement for generations, the choice to embrace it, to make the cause of the slaves…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read With a title like The Meaning of Marriage, this book promises a lot. And it doesn’t disappoint. An indepth study of marriage and how it refines and grows us, this book by Timothy Keller and his wife Kathy is neither a relational self-help manual nor a feel-good book. It sets truth and fact squarely against…
Jeannie Pederson 3 Minute Read When I saw that Leslie Ludy had written a new book, and one on singleness at that, I was immediately interested. I have a lot of respect for the Ludys, and was very excited to be able to meet them at a retreat a couple of years ago. They really have a heart for God…
Danielle Carey 7 Minute Read My nieces are too small to read yet, but already they love books. Abby is ten months old and will sit on my knee, pointing to the pictures of tiny baby faces then wrestling the book from my hands so she can chew it. Amelia, almost five, is big enough now for read-aloud chapter books…
Jessica Telian 2 Minute Read I’ve always struggled with fear. When I was a little girl, it was the thought that E.T. might come bursting through our roof and take me away. As a young teen, I was terrified that the Bubonic Plague would come again and we would all die a horrible death from it. (Can you tell I…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read The only thing I like more than talking and blogging about books is actually reading books. And it’s been a month chock-full of both here at YLCF! I think some of us have gotten more reading done simply because we had promised to review something. 😉 And I don’t know about you, but I’m looking…
Jessica Elisabeth 3 Minute Read After finishing my first big-girl book, my mom insisted I form the habit of writing down the title of each book I read. I wasn’t too thrilled. This book-log idea sounded strangely familiar to the practice of writing thank-you notes.
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read I’m old-fashioned. I prefer old hardbacks to new paperbacks. I would rather read a book with pages I can turn than one that’s contained in a reader or computer. So it only follows that I would always prefer to read the book before I watch the movie. But last fall, I found my “read it…
Jessica Telian 4 Minute Read What imaginative girl has not been captivated by the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery? With a loving eye and a ready pen she gave to the world a tiny island off the coast of New Brunswick and a little band of girl heroines that have delighted the souls of ‘kindred spirits’ the world over. How…
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