The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Podcast
The Practice of the Presence of God is a collection of letters and transcriptions of conversations,...
My First Dictionary: Corrupting Young Minds One Word at a Time
Book
Blogger and librarian Ross Horsley delivers a wickedly satirical children's dictionary for today's...
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales
Book
Marta McDowell combines the skills of a historian, biographer and gardener as she explores Beatrix...
Poor People
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Hugh Aplin
Book
Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative...
The End of Alice
Book
The End of Alice treads the thin line between the evil and the everyday and caused a major...
On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition
Charles Darwin and David Quammen
Book
Now in paperback, this richly illustrated edition of Charles Darwin's paradigm-shattering...
Amanda Palmer recommended Dropping Ashes on the Buddha in Books (curated)
Happy: Secrets to Happiness from the Cultures of the World
Book
HAPPINESS. One word, nine letters, roughly seven billion definitions, one for each person on the...
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Risk Taker (Mixed Messages, #3) in Books
Jan 11, 2021
I struggled with this from early on. It wasn't as engaging as the previous two and I didn't gel with the characters half as much. The smoothness wasn't there either and it all felt rather awkward, the writing rather posh and a lot of the words I had to look up on the kindle's dictionary because I had no idea what they meant.
The best bits for me were the mini letters the boys had written to each other about the pranks they played on their parents at the start of every chapter.
Words on Fridge
Games and Education
App
Your fridge is your game board. Pick the necessary letters and compose a word. Images and magnets...