Book Review: Dopamine Décor
Since reading this book, I notice color everywhere. I see palettes in my closet, at the store, in nature, in my kitchen. I read palettes in a science fiction novel in the description of a planet; in The Hobbit as he describes Bilbo’s outfit or the dwarves’ cloaks. Colors dance in my head in pairs and triads. I file them away and look for new ones. Creativity has begotten creativity, as my fingers itch to get out my watercolors and just swirl colors together to see how they look. Maybe I should try to paint that planet-scape, I think to myself. I feel so hungry and so satisfied at the same time. So stimulated, excited, and at peace simultaneously. I can quite literally feel my brain working differently, like new neuropathways were formed just by this particular “click”.
Book Review: My Dear Hemlock
If I had read this as a baby Christian, struggling with assurance and various doubts and questions, I would have been left completely unmoored. I want to say that this book could help some people. But all I can say is that if a woman has struggled with certain sins, this book would only serve to resurrect those sins or, at the very least, the feeling of guilt for those sins
Book Review: Living in God’s Two Kingdoms by David VanDrunen
We’re engaged with our culture, we’re just not trying to save it. We’re not trying to Christianize it. But we are still part of this kingdom. This distinction allows us to engage without being burdened, and it allows all of us to engage as we are gifted and according to our abilities.
Book Review: The End of Woman by Carrie Gress
What I found in reading this book was a mirror to see places where the feminist movement had strewn bad seeds that I was still letting grow in my garden. It made me pity the women caught up in all this, and it made me better understand my current culture while running as far away from it as possible. It made me stronger and clearer and braver in my thoughts. I know where I stand and why and with whom, and it isn’t the feminist or any of their lies.
Inspirational and Order
A blitz review of several inspirational books and home organizational books from both Abby and Sarah.
Book Review: Happy Starts at Home
This is a home decor book plus a lifestyle book. She doesn’t tell you any of the rules of decorating, decluttering, or organizing. She doesn’t tell you how to blend patterns, what size rug you need, or how high to hang a picture. Instead, she gives you homework.
Book Review: Love the Home You have
As she writes about contentment, she makes it clear that it is not a passive, purely ideological thing. It is active and practical, and it takes action based on that heart-attitude of contentment.
Book Review: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
In this book, you will find the home dearly loved, for who doesn’t love home more than an orphan? You will find the work of home honored and praised and the homemaker to be both the childless, the widow, the young, and the old.
Book Review: Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in the Family Life
Leila shares her story, her philosophy, and her theology of home. She has some of the most down-to-earth parenting and marriage advice I’ve ever read. She talks about nursing and teenagers. She’s snarky and sarcastic. Seriously ladies, some absolutely solid parenting advice can be found in this book. She also covers homeschooling a bit and how to build a community.
Book Review: Home-Making by J. R. Miller
I found a book about homemaking written by a man, and I was not disappointed. Yes, I had to do some translating, and I had to practice discernment, but it was refreshing to not have to slog through the subtext of the feminist lies soaking all of our culture. It was refreshing and convicting to be held to a high standard of womanhood. And it was a delight to see marriage and the home honored.