BOOK REVIEW: No One Can Take Your Place

Sheri Dew is the author.

This book is filled with uplifting messages, stories, scriptures. They target women and her purpose is to encourage women to stand up and be counted. She says women have a divine mission and purpose alongside men.

“The Lord knows who we are, where we are, what our mission is, and what we need in order to accomplish that mission,” she wrote.

She teaches that each person has an individual purpose for being on earth. When a person dies, another person may fill in for that person’s responsibilities, but can never do it the same way.

Sheri told one story about when she was younger and had an opportunity to fill a certain roll. Fear kept her from stepping forward. Years later, she learned that that position was never filled and the group suffered for months with the vacancy.

We may not always know how important it is for us to accept and faithfully accept opportunities that come our way.

BOOK REVIEW: The Mist of Quarry Harbor

This is a novel by Liz Adair.

She tells the story of a thirty-two year-old unmarried woman. Cassie Van Cleeve has a successful career and no interest in romance. It finds her and leaves her in confusion. Which man should she choose? The one she has known her whole life or a stranger who has appeared and refuses to let go. He sent her roses when she had not given him her address. How did he find her? Was her lost barrette involved?

Marriage leads her to many questions about her husband. Why did there seem to be so many secrets? Where did he go when he left town for days at a time. And, then why did he buy a boat without telling her?

There are surprising events and puzzling characters turning a romantic adventure into a mystery.

This is a fast-paced story, keeping you up past bedtime. The reader must know the answers to the questions. About the time you think you’ve figured it out, you discover you were wrong, wrong, wrong.

Read and you’ll enjoy the trip all the way to Quarry Harbor and back again.

I met the author at the Kanab Writers Conference on October 12th. I enjoyed my visit with her. She signed my copy of her book.

MyraSaidIt

BOOK REPORT: Troublesome Creek, by Jan Watson, edited by Jerry B Jenkins

This is “can’t put it down” book, a fiction that makes you feel involved. It includes old expressions I can remember from childhood. Sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite. We never had any. Bees in her bonnet. Oops. Somebody is angry.

Troublesome Creek deserves its name. It is unpredictable. Some years it flows, barely. Some years it is a flooding monster. Nevertheless, it is home to the Brown Family in 1881.

“Girl! You’d better get to the house. If your mam catches you in that creek again she’ll skin you alive!”

“Caught again,” she muttered under her breath. “I’m sorry, Daddy. I’ll be home directly.”

Mam is actually her aunt and step-mother, but the only mother she has known. Her biological mother died a tragic death a few days after her birth. She isn’t mean. She loves her totally.

There are many hard experiences to get through. There is much to learn. Will she be sent away to boarding school where she can learn to be a lady? Will she stay at the home she loves?

If there weren’t hundreds more books waiting to be read, I would probably want to read this one again.

MyraSaidIt