Review: Leaving Egypt

Leaving Egypt: Finding God in the Wilderness Places by Chuck DeGroat
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Grab your Bible, grab this book and prepare to dig in. Chuck DeGroat goes in depth with you, figuring out what your Egypt is, and although painful sometimes to really think of those things, remember one word. GRACE.

I enjoyed the quotes, I enjoyed the Discussion Questions. Talk about looking and examing everything, trying to figure out if you are holding yourself prisoner.

However, my complaints would be, at times I felt as if it was jumping all over the place thoughtwise, and I was reading a lot of repeated quotes etc.

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Review: The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns

The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns by Margaret Dilloway
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Dilloway really moved into my target zone with How to Be an American Housewife, so I sat and patiently waited when I heard The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns was due to release soon. Getting an early copy was a bonus. Dilloway did it again, and even surpassed my expectations. Gal is a character like none other, like me! Unique, with a dry sense of humor and very candid, you will fall in love INSTANTLY.

Gal is a single woman, who works as a teacher and all of her other time spent pretty much is working with or thinking about her roses. Her kidney failures come into play a bit, but her love of roses comes out instantly. She made me want to run out and work with mine, and find out more.

Gal has an irresponsible sister, who sends her daughter Riley to live with Gal, even though Gal had no heads up. How can Gal take care of a teenager, when she never had any children and with her doing dialysis?

Read this extraordinary book, released just in time for a bit of autumn reading -- Dilloway makes a new bench mark for all authors to reach.

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Review: The Unseen

The Unseen by Katherine Webb
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

As always, you have to delve deeper into the book, and once you do that, you get bits and pieces to put a whole puzzle together that Ms Webb has made for us. This time we have the past, 1911 and the present 2011. I sure did LOVE the past! Hester was so intriguing. If I was her I would really have a complex. Why wouldn't Bertie sleep with her? What in the hay!

The present wasn't as interesting but I sure did love the way this bit of mystery, thriller and romance came along. At first I really didn't care for Cat, I was thinking yes, something bad has come into your house but the further I got into the story, the more my dislike passed onto Robin Currant. He is a real toad.

Webb draws you into a story, doesn't give everything up front. You have to work for it, each page getting closer and closer to solving the puzzle. I am forever a fan, she hasn't strayed me wrong yet. Looking forward to her new one coming Nov 22, 2012, A Half Forgotten Song. So if you love her books as much as myself, PREORDER it!!!

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