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Eva has suffered a terrible loss, the death of her sister Katrina. Eva's last loving duty to her sister, Katrina, is to return to their childhood in Cornwall. Eva believes this is the place Katrina would pick for her last resting place. While there, Eva spends many memorable moments with childhood friends. Friends whom she and Katrina enjoyed once upon a time along with their stepmother, Claire.  The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley is a Time Travel novel. The story is lovely and heavy with meaning about relationships. All of the characters whether villains are not make the novel feel real and intense. There are Mark and Susan, brothers and sisters. Claire, as said, is their stepmother, Eva is a long time friend. Oliver is another friend who enjoys and sees the wonder in Irish History. Another friend is Felicity. Felicity is an entrepreneur who wants to open a tea shop.  Then, there is another set of characters to meet. The ones whom Eva meets when she falls from the Twenty F

This nonfiction book led me into the world of missionaries. There is so much I didn't know. I wasn't aware that since the World Wars the life of missionaries out in the field as changed drastically. It seems the Western world's desire to see people fed, hospitalized and given other social programs has taken the focus off the true purpose of the  church. The purpose of the church is to preach the Gospel, Acts 26:18. However, the question that deserves answering more than ever before is what should the missionary do first? Should he preach the Gospel first and not worry about the social problems faced, for example, by the Asians, or should the missionary concern himself or herself with the social problems first? What comes first? The chicken? The egg? That is the question. K. P. Yohannan creatively makes it imperative to look at both sides of the question. According to K.P. Yohannan in Revolution In World Missions, the question deserve answers immediately or people acro

"When Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from  years of living in England and South Africa, he quickly realized the "Quit India" movement was failing because its national leadership was not willing to give up European ways. So even though he was Indian, he had to renounce his Western dress and customs or he would not have been able to lead his people out from under the British yoke. He spent the rest of his life relearning how to become an Indian again-in dress, food, culture and lifestyle....He became the father of my nation, the George Washington of modern India." historymahatma-gandhi

While very simple to read, Laura English by Lynn Arias Bornstein is a very complex novel. The novel is about a woman who dreamed all her life of becoming an actress. While her dream does come true, other parts of her life are tragic. Laura English is definitely a story about a woman who is strong enough to keep pushing in the face of awful and unthinkable tragedies.  While reading, it was very hard not to run to the computer. I wanted to see all the lovely places named by the author in the novel: Galilee, Cap d'Antibes, St. Tropez, Belvedere Island, the San Francisco skyline, etc. I still have a piece of music mentioned in the novel that I would like to hear. It is Profane Pilgrim by Joachim Muller.  In other words the novel is very rich. The characters are wonderful. There are also true historical anecdotes:Vietnam war, Rasputin, John Kennedy along with all the people involved in that horrible situation like Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald. I had the chance to read about th

" ...who had come all the way from Amman, Jordan, especially to see me."

Since this is an ARC, these sentences might or might not appear in the newly published books. "David spent the days quietly ensconced in the living room, reading in front of the fire or working on a gigantic jigsaw puzzle of the Bayeux Tapestry spread out on a table by the window." http://www.tapestry-bayeux.com/