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Why I Read LDS and Mainstream Christian Fiction

As I’ve gone back and looked at all the reviews I’ve written for Families.com so far, I’ve noticed that the majority of books I’ve chosen to review are either from LDS or mainstream Christian publishers. On my last visit to the library, I made it a point to grab an armful of books from national publishers, realizing that I should have more of a balance in the books that I read and review. I picked up so many books that my back hurt by the time I went through check out. It’s my favorite kind of backache. Once home, I … Continue reading →

A Little Black Marker — It’s Magic!

Every so often I’ll pick up a book that I think is just wonderful. It has fantastic characters, it’s funny, the mystery is well written, and then I turn the page, and somebody is doing something they really should not be doing, and I blush and feel guilty, even though I didn’t know it was there. Dang! (That’s how a Mormon swears.) Why did the author have to mess up a great story with that one paragraph? Well, what do you do in a case like that? We recently talked about building a library in your home. You want to … Continue reading →