How to Edit Your Novel: Practical Tips for Strengthening Your Story helped me as a writer. I particularly appreciated Chapter Five, “Your Story’s Structure,” where Karin Berry broke down the three-act plot structure into six parts. Throughout her book, Berry employed several novels as structural models for new and established writers to understand the art of structuring a novel in …
Up in the Air: The Real Story of Life Aboard the World’s Most Glamorous Airline by Betty Riegel Riegel is an adventurous and historical journey aboard Pan American World Airways. I purchased the book and the audiobook. I loved hearing Riegel’s voice recount her glamorous life as a Pan Am Stewardess. Her lively stories kept me laughing, particularly Chapter Thirteen, …
I finished Jerry B. Jenkins’ “Though None Go with Me” and enjoyed the complexities of Elisabeth’s romance with Will. She was “a fool for Christ and a fool for Will.” Elisabeth dedicates her life to God and obedience to Christ. I could not read or listen to this heart-wrenching story in one sitting. Yet Elisabeth’s hardship, pain, and sorrow …
I loved the lively banter between lawyer Linda Barrett and pilot Jake Stevens in Terri Blackstock’s “Evidence of Mercy.” I appreciate how Linda doesn’t want to sell her Piper Arrow PA 28 and reluctantly takes her beloved airplane on a test run with Jake at the controls. Blackstock masterfully captures tense moments in the air and on the ground, and …
I finished The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and enjoyed learning about unexpected events in France in 1939. Hannah is a beautiful writer who seamlessly moves within periods during World War II and illustrates the lives of two very different sisters—both courageous in their unique ways. I loved learning about the characters’ lives and had a better sense of the impact …
I read The Brotherhood: a Precinct 11 novel by Jerry B. Jenkins this month and embraced how Jenkin’s novel engaged my mind intellectually and emotionally. At the book’s beginning, a horrendous situation happens, and it felt like the first few chapters ripped my heart out—still, I couldn’t put it down. It was educational to live vicariously through the life of …
Casey is hiding again—in Memphis this time—but it’s different now. She knows without a doubt that Dylan believes her and is doing all he can to help bring Brent’s killer to justice. He’s become an unexpected friend . . . and even, maybe, something more. Hope makes everything more bearable. Casey makes a deal with the DA to turn over …
Is Dylan hunting Casey to prosecute her or protect her? Casey Cox is still on the run, fleeing prosecution for a murder she didn’t commit. Dylan Roberts—her most relentless pursuer—is still on her trail, but his secret emails insist that he knows the truth and wants to help her. He’s let her escape before when he had her in his …
Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up Required to have a college degree, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to …
From the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Make Your Bed — a short, inspirational book about the qualities of true, everyday heroes. The Hero Code is Admiral McRaven’s ringing tribute to the real, everyday heroes he’s met over the years, from battlefields to hospitals to college campuses, who are doing their part to save the world. When …
