Cross Roads

Cross Roads by Wm. Paul Young
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Anthony Spencer - cruel egotistical businessman, selfish pitiful loner - the words to describe "Tony" aren't pretty. In his quest to reach the top and hide his failures, Tony spurns any attempts of love and friendship - he trusts no one and no one trusts him. When a brain hemorrhage drops Tony in ICU and a coma claims him - he finds himself in an amazing, surreal world where he finds the Trinity, but in different forms. As Tony examines the man he was, he slowly realizes that even he can be redeemed...

Has it really been 5 years? Young's follow-up to bestseller,The Shack, is a very deep, moving novel worth rereading...perfect for those who doubt God's unending love for humanity..

Note: Wm. Paul Young was born a Canadian and raised among a Stone Age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of former New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult and now enjoys the "wastefulness of grace" with his family in the Pacific Northwest.

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The Good Dream

The Good Dream by Donna VanLiere
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What happens when you're just an independent, 30something, according-to-the-town spinster, who goes against the naysayers to save a poor, abused little boy from the hills? Lonely since the death of her beloved mother, Ivorie Walker is just putting one foot in front of the other. Doing her daily chores, milking the cow, weeding the garden, canning the vegetables, Ivorie's life is just an empty routine rut. Other than her dog Sally, her brother Henry, and his wife Loretta, there's no family nearby. When a dirty faced young feller gets caught stealing tomatoes in her garden, Ivorie's life begins to change in unusual, courageous ways.

I have loved reading all of VanLiere's Christmas books and was excited to see she had written a full length novel. This book is so uplifting and moving - you'll fall in love with the main characters.

One of favorite quotes from Ivorie: There comes a time when you don't know what you're capable of anymore. Looking back, say five or even two years ago, you can remember what you were capable of then - how you thought, what you did, who you loved, who people said you were. Then something happens and takes that away; the basket of good intentions you've been toting around, the trunk of dreams you've been pulling behind you - all of it is gone in an instant, and it's just you, naked, bare, exposed.


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Lost December

Lost December by Richard Paul Evans

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Luke Crisp is a solid, good guy, close with his father and heir to Crisp's Copy Centers. When his father talks him into continuing his education at a business school across the nation, Luke finds out that most of his new friends like to party and he slowly begins the downhill slide. When one of his best friends, a Christian and a Pastor's son, dies in an accident on graduation night Luke decides to traipse across Europe with the remaining group and live it up while there's still time. When his trust fund runs out, Luke finds out who is real friends are.

Richard Paul Evans is one of my favorite authors and I can always count on him for a good read. Woven into the storyline of this novel is the age old biblical story of the prodigal son. A good story of hope, forgiveness, and unending love.



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