2012 Writing Contest: Book Review Winner
Last fall, we invited students of any age to submit original works in two categories: 1) book reviews and 2) short stories. The deadline for entry was December 15th, and believe it or not, we got some great entries! Tomorrow we’ll announce our short story finalists and let you guys vote for a winner. Today,…
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 48
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In our last post, we looked at our Top Ten Interviews for the year. Today, it’s the top ten all-around posts, aside from the interviews. I doubt they’ll win any Pulitzer Prizes, but some might be worth a few minutes of your time. 1. Janie’s Hunger Games Review 2. Behind the Bookcase: A Clockwork Orange…
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While we’re finishing off the Christmas cookies and figgy pudding (does anyone really eat figgy pudding? what is it anyway?!), Janie and I thought we’d celebrate the closing of the year with a few retrospective posts. If you’re new to the site, or if you just happened to miss a few, here are our ten…
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Les Misérables: A Movie Review
Merry Christmas! Les Miz opens todays in theaters, so I thought I’d share a few thoughts from the screening I attended a while back…. When Tom Hooper, award-winning director of The King’s Speech, chose Christmas day as the release date for his version of Les Miserables, it was no doubt a nod to the “reason…
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Our Best Christmas Posts
Hey guys! How’s that shopping and cooking and cleaning going? I’m pretty far behind, but I did get most of my grocery shopping done yesterday. Yum! With less than a week until Christmas, Janie and I thought we’d make a list of some of our best Christmas posts for you to peruse in your free…
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A Very LOGOS and Parnassus Christmas, Part Two
If you missed it, Part One of this series detailed my trip to a fantastic Nashville bookstore, Logos Bookstore. Today, I follow up that Christian bookstore with a secular bookstore, Parnassus Books. Owned by Ann Patchett, an award-winning author herself, Parnassus opened in 2011 to great fanfare. As an independent bookstore bucking the trend toward…
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 47
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Picture Books for Sharing and Giving, Part Two
The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau, by Michelle Markel, Illustrated by Amanda Hall. Eardmanns, 2012, 32 pages. Age/interest level: 4-8 “Henri Rousseau wants to be an artist. Not a single person has ever told him he is talented. He’s a toll collector. He’s forty years old.” A more unlikely subject for exhibit fodder could hardly…
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Audiobooks and Caricatures (Hobbit Read Along Finale, pt. 2)
Today is the release date of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit! But you probably already know that if you’ve been on our Hobbit journey. It’s been a wild trip, as you can read in our previous posts: 1) Introduction, 2) Week One, 2) Week Two, 3) Week Three, 4) Week Four, 5) Week Five, and 6)…
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