| Martha's Book Club Page On this page I will recommend books and do "book reports" I will also have top favorite book lists. I have to have flexible lists because I read voraciously and my favorites can change as often as Texas Weather. I have listed my favorite books on prayer on my page about prayer. Also my favorite books on friendship are on my friendship page. |
| My Current Top Fifteen Christian Books of All Time 1. The Jericho Hour by Dick Eastman 2. Healing America's Wounds by John Dawson 3. Any Book Written by Catherine Marshall 4. Hinds Feet in High Places by Hannah Hurnard 5. Cry of the Human Heart by Juan Carlos Ortiz 6. Divine Romance by Gene Edwards 7. There Were Two Trees by Rick Joyner 8. Servant's or Friends by Graham Maxwell 9. The Blessing by Gary Smalley and John Trent 10. The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis 11. A New Kind of Christian by Brian McLaren 12. A Theology as Big as the City by Ray Bakke 13. God's Favorite House by Tommy Tenney 14. The Three Battlegrounds by Franci Frangipane 15. Anointed for Business by Ed Silvoso To qualify for any of my lists a book has to have impacted my life in a dramatic way and burned in me a desire to either live or work better or to be a more loyal and trustworthy friend. |
| Martha's Top Regular books in random and changing order 1. Christy by Catherine Marshall 2. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey 3. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline d' Engle 4. The Little Prince by St Exupery 5. Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (actually any book by her) 6.. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood 7. Perelandra by CS Lewis 8. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee 9. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 10. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 11. Generally whatever I am reading or have just read recently (I am a hopeless, compulsive, bookaholic nerd.) |
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| A Review of Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood I read Cat's Eye last summer while I visited my high school friend, Mary Ann. I liked this book partly because of the writing style and partly because of the content. The writing style was somewhat like watching a movie. The initial scene was present tense as if the action was happening right in front of you. The lead character is an artist doing an art show in her hometown. Each art piece is somewhat autobiographical. As she begins to reminisce about some of the events that she was processing psychologically, the reader is taken through her life story but the drama begins when the character is 6-8 years old. (So many things can happen in those crucial friendship forming years that affect us forever in some way or other) I felt the author did an awesome job. I know many will be offended because some of the antagonists are Christian in their belief. There actions are very unChristian and mean. Jesus would never have done to a child what these people did in this story. So I guess I would say it is also a wake-up call to watch how we treat unbelievers regardless of their age. |
| Background song is an old country tune called "It's Only Make Believe" |