Book reviews lately

I recently read 3 books on nutrition, so I'm going to review them all together.  The facets are all the same, even if they come from different angles.  The long and short of it all~ nutrition matters.  It matters to our lives now, and it matters to the generations after us.  Although it definitely isn't the only facet of health, it's by far the foundation of it.  Spiritual and emotional health are just as necessary too.

You Are What Your Grandparents Ate

Cure Your Child With Food

Beating Cancer With Nutrition

And then a few doctrinal/spiritual books, focusing on parenting with God's grace and digging into idols (breaking the first commandment).  These are both by Elyse Fitzpatrick and are excellent!!  Highly recommend.  Other than a couple mentions that Lutherans don't believe (our kids choosing their salvation), the rest is pure gold on understanding our own sinful, prideful, selfish hearts; and understanding God's grace towards us due to those sinful hearts.  So much good teaching on law vs. gospel, and how we can do nothing to save ourselves or our children.  It's all His grace.  I'm just going to post a few quotes from her, rather than going through the books as I usually do.

Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

Idols of the Heart: Learning to Long for God Alone, Revised and Updated

And then a few fiction books that I'm (re)reading.  It's been a long winter, so these have been helpful in passing the dark nights.  These are my absolute favorites of all time, and I haven't read any of them since I've been married, so I know it's been at least 20 years since I last read them.

Mrs. Mike about a lady around the turn of the last century in northern Alberta who married a Mountie.  Partly true, but mostly fiction.  

Jane Eyre is by far my favorite fiction book ever.  I read the copy that Greg's Grandma Davidson gave me when she downsized her library, so it felt extra special to read, knowing it is one of her favorites too.  Such a good author, such a good book.

Gone With the Wind is the next one I'm working through right now.  I love the raw humanness in this one.  How our opinions of how life "should" be and how it actually turns out are two very different things.  Love, love, love this book too!

Pride and Prejudice was a new one for me that was recommended by a friend.  Can't say that I loved it, or even really liked it.  Lots of big words and it took lots of chewing to muddle through it.  Seemed like lots of words to say not near as much as I had hoped.  Oh, well.  Now I've read it at least.