We are currently living through such frightening times. It is easy to feel helpless and to worry. Breaking that cycle can be so important.
Bountiful Blessings was published a few years ago but offers a moment of daily reflection that may be helpful in re-centering today. In addition to a short reading, there are pictures to color. This is a good combination as coloring is another activity that helps to stop racing minds.
Bethany House, this book’s publisher, is a Christian one. That said, this title may be helpful to those of different faiths.
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I so very much appreciate that these British Library Classics editions are being reissued. They allow the modern reader to enjoy stories set a number of years ago.
These two novellas feature Scotland Yard’s Thomas Littlejohn in stories set during WWII. These are not flashy or deep stories but they are enjoyable. The first takes place during the Christmas holiday when Littlejohn is happy to be spending a bit of time with his wife. He becomes involved in a cost case dating to WWI.
The second story is about the mysterious death of a seventy year old man. The means of his murder is odd. Was his relative the one responsible? Littlejohn gets to work and solves the cases. Will you?
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This is an activity book that also includes a number of fun facts and sections entitled “Would you rather?” It will engage kids and offer some entertainment that is not on a screen. Just a few of the puzzles included are word searches, mazes and matching puzzles. It should be enjoyed by its target audience.
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Greenwich Park is the London neighborhood that readers get to know well over the course of this domestic thriller. This is the first novel by Katherine Faulkner but I feel that she has done her research on how to write this type of popular book.
Readers get to know a number of women in this story that is told in alternating voices. That, of course, does not tell readers who is truthful or what exactly will happen. There are:
Helen-She finally seems to be having a successful pregnancy after heartache. Her husband seems to work late an awful lot of nights. Keep an eye out for his computer.
Serena: She is also pregnant with a baby due not so long after Helen’s. She is married to one of Helen’s brothers. What is the meaning of the note that is secreted in a cupboard and that has the initial W?
Katie: She is a reporter covering a rape case in which the accused are public school boys. She is involved with Helen’s other brother, Charlie.
These characters all know and interact with one another. Into this mix comes Rachel.
Rachel attaches herself to Helen in an ante-natal group and soon insidiously makes her way into Helen’s life. Who is her baby’s father? Rachel is portrayed as manipulative, presumptuous and able to insinuate her way into other’s lives. Why does she want to be with this group?
Helen, Serena and their respective partners all went to Cambridge together. What happened when they were there? How will that resonate in the present day? Readers know from the first chapter’s first sentence that someone is in jail but who is it and why? Pick up the novel to find out.
I enjoyed this book. I was taken in by its sense of menace, often finding myself wanting to warn the characters. I thought I knew what would happen. Will you feel this way? Will you be right?
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title. All opinions are my own.
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