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Despite lofty intentions, I usually don't get a lot of reading done during the summer. Somehow it just takes much longer to finish books. During July I completed only one, but I do have another that will be finished pretty soon.
July's Books Completed and Reviewed
During July I started reading:
Ruby Moon by Jenny Knipfer - A young French-Ojibwe woman copes with growing up amid grief and conflict, and also has to find her way through a tragedy that threatens to bury her in shame and guilt. (Read my full review HERE)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - I decided to try and get back into the online book discussion group I joined, but I don't think I'll be able to finish our current selection before it's time to discuss it! I'm doing my best, and I have read and enjoyed this classic before.
During July I continued reading:
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare - Adunni is a young Nigerian girl who wants an education more than anything. She has little control though, as her father gives her as a bride to an old man, then a tragedy forces her to flee her village, and she winds up in Lagos with nothing more than a sliver of hope that things will get better.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa - A stray cat finds a home with a young man and travels with him to visit his longtime friends. A bittersweet memoir told mostly from the cat's point of view.
During July I shelved:
Church With No Walls by Noah Cleveland - I keep working on this and then needing to set it aside, and I feel like I'd better set it aside and try again in a couple weeks. It's not a tough read, but I want to give the challenges in it the attention they deserve.
Coming Up in August!
Claiming Mariah by Pam Hillman
When Silence Sings by Sarah Loudin Thomas
On my blogs recently . . .
Besides the reviews, here on Just A Second you'll find:
And on my homeschool blog, Homeschool Coffee Break:
What I'm Highlighting . . . With the growing number of families considering or making the change to homeschooling, I've been trying to provide some guidance and lists of resources on my homeschool blog. If you happen to be one of those new homeschoolers, or know someone who is, please check out some of my resources and feel free to share. I'm happy to help too - just drop me a line and let me know! Start here: Suddenly Homeschooling - How To Get Started
And my friends that read Just A Second are invited to join me at Homeschool Coffee Break for the Twenty-Six Lists link-up. It's every other week and the list prompts are for everyone, not just homeschoolers. The current list is Summer Menu Favorites, and next week the new list will be about Family Traditions.
This post will be linked at the July 2020 Wrap-Up Roundup and Giveaway hosted by Feed Your Fiction Addiction.
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by Connilyn Cossette (and the rest of the Out From Egypt series) - The first novel in this series tells of the plagues that led up to the exodus from a rather unusual point of view. Kiya is an Egyptian sold into slavery and trying to protect her mother and her disabled brother. While enduring the plagues, she meets a Hebrew slave named Shira and her curiosity about the God of the Hebrews grows until she decides to believe what Shira says about the plague to come next - the one that will kill all the firstborns. She joins the Hebrews in hopes of saving her brother and escaping slavery. (Read my full review 
and 
. Shadow tells Shira's story (my review is 
by Mesu Andrews - A historical novel of the Biblical character Miriam that tells the story of Moses' sister starting about the time Moses returns from exile. At the time Miriam about in her eighties, so it's a bit unusual to have a heroine that age! Miriam is a prophetess in her own right, and a leader among the people, but she struggles in finding her new role when Moses and Aaron rise to prominent leadership and the Hebrews leave Egypt. (Read my full review 
by Mesu Andrews tells the story of the Egyptian princess who rescued baby Moses and was his adoptive mother. (Read my full review 
by Texie Susan Gregory tells the story of Moses' birth mother, Jochebed. This novel imagines how young Jochebed grows in her faith and learns to trust God through the very dark and difficult experiences of life. (Read my full review 
