What a great week of reading about Emma M. Lion. I zipped through Volumes 4, 5, and 6. I am deeply enjoying Beth Brower's wit and the slightly ridiculous situations she creates for Emma. She is plagued by nutty relatives and good friends, as she tries to navigate her distressed financial situation. I wonder if Beth Brower will have her marry one of the many men in her orbit or let her remain single and free. What will be Emma M. Lion's best life? I am curious to find out.
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Angie Sage's seven-book series, Septimus Heap, was incredible. I found myself wanting more. Luckily, she has another series taking place in the same fantasy world, called TodHunter Moon. This week I read Pathfinder, the first book. I liked it a great deal. It has monsters, mystery, and magic. Sage's plots move swiftly without sacrificing tension or character building. The main character, Tod, is a twelve-year-old girl facing difficult times, but with extraordinary friends (wink) and talents she is just now discovering, there is hope that good will prevail. First, though it will get dark and scary, in the best way.
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Unless you think I only choose the easy and fun, I read Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren. Warren is many things: an Anglican Priest, wife, mother, and friend. Her book is an encouragement to look for God at work in the mundane parts of our lives: making the bed, arguing with your spouse, eating leftovers, and more. A verse I've been considering as I grow older is Matthew 28:20: "I am with you always, to the end of the age." This book helped me understand ways that God is with me as I fulfill the parts of my life that are less glamorous. Tuesday is blog day and also clean the bathrooms day. I can't remember who recommended this book to me. Thank you to that unnamed person. I also recommended it.
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a historical novel about an inmate, a former Russian soldier, in a Siberian labor camp, or Gulag. Solzhenitsyn tells of just one day, a pretty good day, of Ivan Denisovich's 10-year sentence. It's a brutal life. The book could have been a terrible recounting of suffering, but instead it reveals a desire to survive without being crushed by the oppression and misery surrounding a lowly prisoner. Small things, a hot bowl of soup, not getting frostbite, working to help one another, become a path to, strangely, enjoying the life before you. This book is the May book for my book club.
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