I received No Girls Allowed: Devotions for Boys as a complimentary gift from Tyndale House Publishers.No Girls Allowed: Devotions for Boys, authored by Jayce O'Neal, is a great book for young adolescent boys. At 249 pages in length, the book is divided into devotion lessons. Each lesson is four pages in length: two pages for the lesson, and two other pages with a puzzle and activities that can enrich the lesson. Topics included in the devotions: gossiping, bullying, anger, discernment, eating ...
Faithful – A Book Sneeze Review
I received this book as a BookSneeze member to read and review. The author delved into controversial topics that are a problem in today's world, even among our churches: fornication and adultery.There are three main characters in this story: Cyd, Dana, and Phyllis. Cyd is a 40-year-old never-married woman who is determined to remain pure until marriage. When she meets a bold, attractive man who certainly doesn't have the same goals as she does, she fights to remain firm in her promise to God. ...
Let’s Do Lunch – A Book Sneeze Review
I received this book as a BookSneeze member to read and review. I'll say first of all that it was a pleasant, quick read. It wasn't confusing; the author went right to the point.This book is a "diet" book, written by Roger Troy Wilson, who once weighed over 400 pounds. After he tried and failed multiple diets, saw nutritionists and doctors, he woke up one morning with an epiphany and began eating differently. His focus is to eat fruits for breakfast, your BIG meal at lunch (protein, veggies, ...
Beyond Opinion – A Book Sneeze Review
I received this book as a BookSneeze member to read and review. This book is divided into three parts: a section for challenges Christian face and suggestions for facing those challenges, a portion for understanding those questions and answers Christians face, and the last part focuses on living life with apologia. This book is written with a beginner in mind, but I'll be honest and say that he "lost" me at points in the book. As someone who juggles several books at once, this was a book that I ...
The Heart Mender – A BookSneeze Review
I will say that The Heart Mender by Andy Andrews was quite an interesting read. As a writer myself, I was attracted to the way Andy Andrews wrote this book. His use of foreshadowing flowed quite nicely, I thought. The switching from the "now" to the "then" wasn't choppy, which I thought was really great. However, when I got to the end of the book, the story just ended. It felt to me like there were some things that remained untold. And maybe there were a few things. It was based on a true story, ...
BookSneeze Book Review – Plain Paradise
I've recently had the opportunity to read a book that I've really enjoyed. Plain Paradise is part of an Amish book series by Beth Wiseman. The heroine in the story finds out that she's been adopted by her Amish family after an English woman she doesn't know comes knocking on their door. Her birth mother has only a short time to live, so she wants to know the daughter she'd given away when she was two weeks old. Meanwhile, the Amish folks who'd raised this young lady struggle with fear that the ...