Brittany Shields 9/23/24 Brittany Shields 9/23/24

The Midnight Garden

“Tessa’s casual use of the word ‘we’ makes me wince. Her life is full of ‘we’… I didn’t realize the joy of ‘we’ until I became just me.”“If you are looking for answers you can’t find, you need to change the question.”

Brittany Shields 9/23/24 Brittany Shields 9/23/24

Impossible Christianity

“This book is about how the line ‘how God loves us even though we are spiritual failures’, however well-intentioned is unbiblical, inaccurate, and unhelpful.”

Brittany Shields 9/20/24 Brittany Shields 9/20/24

The Night We Lost Him

“If you are looking for answers you can’t find, you need to change the question.”

Brittany Shields 9/13/24 Brittany Shields 9/13/24

Better

In depth study of Hebrews and why Jesus is the better priest, the better sacrifice, and brings a better covenant. Hebrews encourages us to live a faithful life as others who have gone before us.

Brittany Shields 9/11/24 Brittany Shields 9/11/24

Golden Son

“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark. Find your home, Darrow, and you’ll never be lost again.”

Brittany Shields 9/9/24 Brittany Shields 9/9/24

Bad Therapy

“We parents have become so frantic, hyper vigilant, and borderline obsessive about our kids’ mental health that we routinely allow all manner of mental health expert to evict us from the room.”

Brittany Shields 9/2/24 Brittany Shields 9/2/24

The Lonely Hearts Book Club

“If I’d known my house was going to turn into the setting of a Jojo Moyes novel, I’d have let them put me in a nursing home in the first place.”

Brittany Shields 9/1/24 Brittany Shields 9/1/24

August Reads 2024

Finally read more than 4 books this month, but one of them was only a two-star read.

Brittany Shields 8/26/24 Brittany Shields 8/26/24

House of Glass

“A suspicious death, a silent child— the blueprint of my childhood is being drawn all over again. Everything I’ve held tightly inside for three decades is jarring loose.”

Brittany Shields 8/26/24 Brittany Shields 8/26/24

Chosen for Life

“Election is God’s gracious and loving action to which we contribute nothing and for which, therefore, God receives all the glory.”

Brittany Shields 8/21/24 Brittany Shields 8/21/24

Fragile Designs

Carly finds a Fabrege egg in her great-grandmother's things and suddenly her husband's unsolved murder makes a little more sense.

Brittany Shields 8/7/24 Brittany Shields 8/7/24

A Lovely Lie

“I reconciled that night long ago, when the choice I had was college or jail for accessory to murder.”

Brittany Shields 8/3/24 Brittany Shields 8/3/24

The Wager

“Byron could not yet know for certain the true nature lurking inside his fellow seamen or even himself: a long, dangerous voyage inexorably exposed one’s hidden soul.”

Brittany Shields 8/3/24 Brittany Shields 8/3/24

July Reads 2024

The month where the girl on the plan ruined my reading plans…

Brittany Shields 7/25/24 Brittany Shields 7/25/24

Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

“She was a human-sized bad omen, as if she’d smashed every mirror, walked under every ladder and put new shoes on every table she’d ever seen. Lenny didn’t really put stock in superstitions and yet her track record spoke for itself.”