Several weeks ago, I was attending a writers' group meeting where we were each given a challenge: write a story about one of your strongest Christmas memories. I wasn't sure what to write about. The thing about being born in place, living in a different continent from age 3-10, plus various travels to Asia and …
Continue reading A Christmas Reflection, published by Fellowship & Fairydust
A post for Power Book Review, on a collection of Christmas stories that leave you thinking:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you want Christmas stories that capture the season without being syrupy, this book is for you.
🖋 🖋🖋🖋🖋 The writing is consistently good in every entry, and many authors show they are not afraid to show a sad situation before showing the goodness.
Authors: Henry Van Dyke,Pearl S. Buck,Beatrice Joy Chute,Ruth Sawyer,Elizabeth Goudge,Selma Lagerlöf,Rebecca Caudill,Madeleine L’Engle
Published October 5, 2021 by Plough Publishing
ISBN: 9780874860313
Genre: Fiction, Short Story Collection, Holiday Stories, Christian Fiction
🔪 Some stories occur in poverty scenes with stark imagery, or feature threats of violence that aren’t carried out.
💋 No sex scenes, little romance.
🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩A Trigger Warning: this book has references to alcoholism, sex with masochistic dialogue.
Christmas is a time that inspires many, and makes them reconsider just what they think about God (and more particularly, Jesus). For writers willing to lean into the questions that the season…
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In my last post, I shared a book review of William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley, an under-read noir novel with an odd connection to the Inklings. A Pilgrim in Narnia just published a longer piece I wrote about the book and it's odd parallels to C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength. You can read it here: …
Continue reading Nightmare Alley meets That Hideous Strength
Some of you who have read my blog posts for a while have probably noticed that I refer to films a lot. A variety of posts that I have done didn't really fit into the "thoughts on writing" or "thoughts on faith" categories that I set up for this blog in 2015. To make things …
As you probably know from reading many of my blog posts, I enjoy C.S. Lewis' work and am fascinating by his life. One of the odd side subjects in his story is that his wife, Joy Davidman, was originally married to New York writer William Lindsay Gresham. Gresham wrote a variety of things (everything from …
Continue reading Resurrecting a classic: My review of Nightmare Alley
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