Quotidian Grace

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the guns of August--the outbreak of World War I. Dubbed the "war to end all wars" by Am...

It's been awhile since I blogged regularly, but I've been feeling  nudged to begin again and what better way to do that then to...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers is the most disturbing book I have read in a long time. Although it reads like a well-written novel, ...

This one's for all you Downtown Abbey fans out there! Below Stairs by Margaret Powell , originally published in 1968, is the cl...

The second week of January is probably too early to pick the best literary novel of the year, but The Translation of the Bones by Frances...

Over the Christmas holidays I read Robert Massie's Catherine the Great using my Kindle app. That was a smart choice, since the book...

Although I am a big fan of Sharon Kay Penman's historical fiction and mysteries, I confess I was disappointed with her latest histori...

Although Alice Hoffman is a popular author, The Dovekeepers is the first of her novels that I have read. I was drawn to her subject--th...

Our recent trip to Israel piqued my interest in reading more about the country. One of the books recommended to us by our guide was Rome and...

Intrigued by the title, I accepted the offer from Thomas Nelson publishers of a review copy of Jesus, My Father, the CIA and Me by Ian Morga...

Mary Doria Russell is one of my favorite contemporary authors of literary fiction. The only reason I bought the kindle copy of this book is ...

Just when the circus in Washington DC and the doin's of the PC(USA) were starting to seriously work on my last nerve along came Mark Sc...

I'm reviewing the enhanced Kindle edition of this latest story in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series so I can post about the video...

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife by Lisa Miller is an intellectual history of the concept of heaven in the Christian, Je...

Quotidian Grace is 6 years old today! Looking back over those 6 years, it's clear that a lot has changed in the blogging world. Blogs ...

The Accidental Anglican: The Surprising Appeal of the Liturgical Church by Todd D. Hunter has been on my "book reviews in progress...

At 512 pages, Bill Bryson's At Home is not really the "short history of private life" promised in the subtitle. After wrestli...

Heartstone is the latest novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series by C.J.Sansom.  I was so eager to read it that I didn't w...

Literary historians have lamented the fact that many of the most personal letters of Emily Dickinson were destroyed by her family after her ...

When I agreed to review an advance copy of Unprotected Texts by Jennifer Wright Knust as part of a TLC Book Tour, I was struck by the sugges...