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Panning for Gold
ByVikI’ve just attended a very inspiring writers’ weekend with Adrian and Bridget Plass and Sheridan Voysey at Scargill House in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. The theme was Panning for Gold – identifying the really precious moments in our lives with a view to creating a personal memoir. A task we were assigned was to write…
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
ByGreyowlThis is one of the best of Dickens’ works, in my opinion. True, it starts off heavy and bleak, but Mr. Squeers and Dotheboys Hall do play a significant rôle throughout the book. If anything, the digression involving Mr. Crummles and his performing troupe could have been omitted without loss to the story.
What’s going on in the world?
ByGreyowlI’ve been thinking about Jesus’s promise to his followers: My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. (John 10:10) To whom does that apply? And where are the people who enjoy this rich and satisfying life?
Wieviele Dimensionen hat die Ewigkeit?
ByVikNochmals aus C.S. Lewis “Das Gewicht der Herrlichkeit”, 1944, Brunnen Verlag: « Lassen Sie mich ein Märchen erzählen. Eine Frau wird in einen Kerker geworfen. Dort gebiert sie einen Sohn. Sie zieht ihn auf; er wächst heran und sieht tagaus, tagein nichts anderes als die Kerkerwände, das Stroh auf dem Boden und ein kleines Fleckchen…
Delightfully ‘old-fashioned’ tales
ByGreyowlThe Little Village School series by Gervase Phinn Book 1: The Little Village School A new head teacher, Elisabeth Devine, turns the village on its head – in the nicest possible way. Wayward kids are tamed and emotionally wounded kids find healing through her loving care. Even the most die-hard traditionalists – with the exception…
A Christian ‘Who’s Who?’
ByGreyowlThey’ll never read that by Tony Collins Tony comes over as both entertaining and inspiring in this very personal book, in which he neither brags nor seeks to hide his failures. It reads more as an autobiography than – as the subtitle implies – a how-to-fail book about the challenges of book publishing.
