TBC BOOK REVIEWS 📖

I have shared before that I have been reading about World War II since I read Snow Treasure in fourth grade and was immediately hooked!

For comprehensive history volumes (not biographies not historical fiction but straight, heavy history), I have read my two best ever this year. They were long and hard to read but I did it and know so much more as a result.

First was At Dawn We Slept, the almost thousand page life work of Gordon Prange about Pearl Harbor. That burst my belief that we were totally taken by surprise at Pearl Harbor. We had wargamed the scenario many times. We just did not know when and how and did not have adequate resources for 24/7 coverage, with a war already going on in the Atlantic.

Now I have just finished Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands about the 14 million civilians purposely killed by Stalin and Hitler…

Can anyone recommend a good book or study guide that goes more in depth on the Gospels of John?

I don’t think anyone can get through an American high school, even now, without being exposed to Brit Lit. Shakespeare and Dickens among men; Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters among women.

But once we get past the greats, who are other Brit voices worth reading?

Noel and I are at a stage in life where almost everything we watch on television and perhaps 25% of our reading is British. Among the “lesser” writer voices, I am learning to appreciate Daphne du Maurier. She began writing in the early 20th century and died in the 1980’s. She wrote the novels on which the movies The Birds and Jamaica Inn were based.

I have read her novel Rebecca and am currently reading My Cousin Rachel. Both are romances but not conventionally so. Rebecca concerns a man, Max de Winter, who marries the narrator after his first wife Rebecca dies. My Cou…

“When postmodernism took the stage, the disillusioned masses said, “If we can’t know everything, then we can’t know anything.” The modernists had thrown out authority and divine revelation as sources of knowledge. Postmodernists went one step further and threw out human reason as well and claimed that all truth is ultimately subjective—a product of perceptions that have been shaped by culture and society.”

If you have been trying to help your student navigate the “isms” of society in the 2020’s and feel you are slowly losing the battle and losing your children to the world, this book is for you, as well as for the rest of us.

A group of mothers decided to put together a book, based on their organization and website, that will help today’s parents prepare their children in elementary school for the forces that will be tearing away at their faith for the rest of…