by Kristen Lunceford | Sep 21, 2018 | Book Recommendations, Learning
There are hundreds of wonderful, helpful, gorgeous, wise, [fill in the blank] books out there to inform and inspire your homemaking. Here are four I go back to time and time again for encouragement, a heart check, and the occasional decorating porn. May they call you...
by Kristen Lunceford | Jan 7, 2018 | Book Recommendations
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” ~Louisa May Alcott My library obsession reached new heights in 2017, first by juggling three different library systems at once (Las Vegas, Scottsdale, and Phoenix), then by purchasing a readerly tote and,...
by Kristen Lunceford | Dec 31, 2016 | Book Recommendations
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” {Annie Dillard} I was intentionally quiet in 2016, reading more than writing while I waited for God to give me something new to say. Truth be told, after the beat down that was 2015 for our family, I...
by Kristen Lunceford | Aug 26, 2016 | Book Recommendations
Here are a handful of things I learned this summer: 1. Audiobooks make everything better. The things I look forward to doing now because I have audiobooks on my phone is astonishing. They include, but are not limited to: Cleaning everything, cooking anything, getting...
by Kristen Lunceford | Apr 25, 2016 | Book Recommendations
A couple of months ago I mentioned to my husband that a woman in a memoir I’d just finished had fallen asleep in the tub with her infant and drowned him. A few days later I realized that, no, that wasn’t right. The author of the memoir had lost a child,...
by Kristen Lunceford | Feb 10, 2016 | Book Recommendations
It’s been a wonky, exhausting month or so of leading and working and parenting and all the other “ings.” That said, I’m tired of taking myself so seriously and just want to talk about books, okay? Fiction A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman...
