Pierced by a Sword by Bud Macfarlane Jr.

Shalit wrote A Return to Modesty while still an undergrad pursuing her Bachelor's in philosophy. Back in 1999, Wendy Shalit was talking modesty, embarrassment, and sex ed-and she did it with more humor than I could ever muster. I wouldn't discourage anyone from reading I just wouldn't exactly recommend it.

I enjoyed the commentary on marriage and friendship I eye-rolled over the IVF and the nonchalant attitudes on divorce, contraception, and sex outside of marriage.

Big Little Lies (which I read a couple years ago) turns on a murder case What Alice Forgot takes amnesia and shows what would happen if a mother took a hard hit to the head and forgot the last 10 years of her life-including the births and very existence of her three kids. Ha! Liane Moriarty's books are best sellers for good reason-she writes humorous women-centric stories set in everyday life, with a streak of either mystery or medical trauma thrown in. Maybe you already read it and forgot about it. To that I say: Yes it is good, and your 14-year-old-selves have fine literary taste. When I posted on IG that I was in the middle of it, a veritable gaggle of lovely ladies commented to say 'Ooohhhhmigosh, I read that book 3 times when I was 14-and I loved it, but of course, I was 14, so I can't actually say if it's any good.' Author Catherine Marshall has some sweet takes on bringing Christ's love to the world-even if that world is openly hostile and suspicious of it. I hated the first 5 pages, and then loved the rest. She falls for the preacher man (kind of) and stays for the typhoid. City girl/woman heads to Appalachia in the early 1900s to teach the little wild mountain children some reading, writing and religion. Turns out the Mormon ladies join the great Mama Needs Coffee in seeking books that won't make you blush.

In my quest to find some rather squeaky-clean picks for a book club, I stumbled upon a fantastic resource on Goodreads: LDS Book Club Reads. So the pic above shows said battery-jumping novels, plus two non-fictions, but somehow ALL of it skewed toward the feminine, hence the 'lady edition' of this book report. I said on Coffee & Donuts a few weeks ago that once I get mired down in too much non-fiction, I'm hopeless to finish anything until a good novel jumps my literary battery and gets me rolling again. Or more accurately-she started reading fiction again, which in turn, helped her start reading non-fiction again.

Pierced by a Sword by Bud Macfarlane Jr.