FaithfulReader.com - WORD OF MOUTH

June/July 2005

This contest period's winner was mstraci@comcast.net, who received a copy of VIENNA PRELUDE by Bodie and Brock Thoene.

eileenkey@sbcglobal.net
Dead of Night by Brandilyn Collins. 5 stars plus 5!
Mrs. Collins is a master author of a page-turner. Her believable characters might be your next-door neighbors who've become entangled in a life or death situation. The empathy spills from the reader toward the characters. Do not begin this book late at night unless you plan on staying up! A complex plot with an ending no sleuth will detect in advance.

wgjones3@praize.com
Winds of Evil by Sharon K. Gilbert (Whittaker House, 2004). 5 stars.
Katy Adamson is a big-time author from a small town in Indiana. When she learns of her aunt Cissy's death, she rushes home to settle the estate and finds the town in an uproar over the disappearance of two high-school kids. Deciding that the story might make a good book, Katy digs deeper to find much more going on in her hometown of Eden: strange lights in the sky, crop circles, demonic manifestations, and genetic engineering are all being whispered about in hushed conversation. Katy's investigation leads her to her aunt's pastor as well into the home of a double amputee Native American named John Thundercloud, a man who has seen much and has written down all he knows so that someday, others will know the truth.

joyce@bwgi.org
A book I would highly recommend is Becoming Who God Intended by Dr. David Eckman. This life-changing book helps people to expose the emotions on which their lives are running. It helps readers to identify whether their lives are running by love, joy and peace, or guilt, shame and worthlessness. It also helps readers to change any disconnect that may exist between one's view of what the Christian life is supposed to be and one's experience of it. Ultimately, it provides a means or process for readers to take the information they know about God and integrate it so that their emotions and their experience reflect the truths that they say they believe. 5 stars.

mpatton33@comcast.net
I'm currently reading If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat by John Ortberg. We are using it in our women's bible study group and we are enjoying it immensely. 4 stars.

ltwofoot@tampabay.rr.com
If God Is Everywhere, Why Can't I Find Him? by Kimberly Sadler. 5 stars.
This is a wonderful book!!! Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. This first-time author shares how God is active in our lives in so many ways. A must read!!

mlapp@aracnet.com
Songbird by Lisa Samson was a good story but there were several parts in it that I did not agree with in principle. What 31-year-old minister of the Gospel would fall in love and marry a 17-year-old girl? Why would he then allow her to sing in a night club? 3 stars.

Detours by Bette Nordberg is a good story, with a few unusual twists and turns. Bette spent many hours researching the different places that her characters spent time in. There were a couple of minor inconsistencies in the book but they did not deter from the overall story. 4 1/2 stars.

flowstar@nb.sympatico.ca
I am currently reading In Plain Sight by Lorena McCourtney. This is the second in the Ivy Malone series. I just love her. I give this book and the past one, Invisible, a 5-star rating.

ljolly@sympatico.ca
Have I got a book recommendation for you and your readers!!

The book is written by Christian author Lynn Austin and is titled Eve's Daughters. A story of 5 generations of women whose lives are altered because of a "secret" that Gramma Emma never shared with anyone until now. This story spans the years 1800 to 1980 and will keep readers turning page after page late into the night.

Personally, this is the best novel I've read in a long time and I didn't want the story to end. I hope your readers will find this novel as heart rendering and touching as I did.

I would rate this book 5 stars!!

mstraci@comcast.net
The Yada Yada Prayer Group series by Neta Jackson. 4 stars.
I read all three books in the series and passed them to my best friend, whose daughter was reading them too. My daughter started reading them and has instituted our own Yada Yada Prayer Group that is strictly email since there are several who live in different cities (we even have a soldier stationed in Iraq!) The books are fantastic for women to read on their own, as a group, book club --- whatever. They each made me think about a different aspect in my own personal life that needs work.