Welcome to Tuesday Book Chat. This is where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. As we are a faith-based group the questions refer mainly to Christian fiction or non-fiction. Today’s question is: Has reading inspired you to visit a place in a book? We look forward to hearing your …
New Releases | October 2025 With Giveaway Winners
Welcome to October’s new releases. Today we have 6 books to share with you as well as the Tuesday Book Chat winners for the Third quarter. El Roi: God Who Sees Me by Jo Wanmer Publisher: Armour Books (Released: 5 September 2025) Desperate for the light ... Dan dreams of qualifying as an engineer. But his …
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Fiction Friday | Last Chance Joey by Meredith Resce
Today for Fiction Friday I'm sharing my book recommendation for Meredith Resce's Young Adult fiction new release, Last Chance Joey, set in South Australia. Here's the Book Description: No phone, no wi-fi, no friends and no options. Expelled from three schools, Joey is sent to the country to live with his aunt. She asks him …
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Book Review | Singing Through Fire: by Lara Silverman
Today I am reviewing Singing Through Fire: A Memoir of Finding Surprising Joy in Life's Darkest Trials by Lara Silverman which is available now. Book Description: What if you fall in love on the brink of death? Singing Through Fire invites readers into the Job-like true story of a young woman who loses everything—and dares to ask …
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Stabat Mater: The Sorrowful Mother
Last week, I attended a New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's performance of two works based on the Stabat Mater, a thirteenth-century poem/hymn based on the suffering of Mary as she watched Jesus's death on the cross. The first Stabat Mater was by Rossini, a nineteenth-century Italian composer, with the orchestra backed by a choir and featuring …
Tuesday Book Chat | 7 October 2025
Welcome to Tuesday Book Chat. This is where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. As we are a faith-based group the questions refer mainly to Christian fiction or non-fiction. Today’s question is: Have you been to a book signing at a bookshop? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. …
Devotional | No Fear!
In my previous devotional “Two Truths” I mentioned how I had some really intense chest pains and then 2 days later I had heart palpitations, my heart was racing and it felt like it was booming out of my chest. I also noticed that my heart would boom, boom, boom and then take a pause. …
Fiction Friday | Down In The Dumpster
Today I am reviewing Down in the Dumpster by Page M. Davis & Susan Page Davis. Book Description: You never know what you’ll find in a Dumpster. If Cassie had known the misadventures she’d get into on her stopgap job, she would have kept checking the help wanted ads. With her crabby dispatcher hounding her, …
Twenty Years of Words: Then, Now, and Next
Twenty years ago I drafted in notebooks; today, digital tools abound. Yet through every change, the love of words and the call to create remain.
Book Spotlight | The Stories We Carry by Robin W. Pearson
Narelle here. I’m delighted to welcome Robin W. Pearson to our blog today and share an interview for her new book, The Stories We Carry, that’s releasing on October 7, 2025. What inspired this story? When my peeps and I read The Count of Monte Cristo, I became fascinated with the idea of righteous vengeance. Here was …
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