Our rented apartment has no television so I continue to get a remarkable amount of reading done. The books I read in order of most-to-least appealing were 1)
The Bridge on San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (simply astonishing in its breadth of understanding of the human condition), 2)
The King's Equal by Katherine Paterson (a delightful fairy tale with a strong, yet feminine heroine), 3)
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson (1957 Newbery winner), 4)
Reading for the Love of God by Jessica Hooten Wilson, 5)
When the English Fall by David Williams (dystopia in an Amish community), 6)
On Asking God Why by Elisabeth Elliot (collected essays), 7)
Out of a Far Country (non-fiction redemption story), 8)
The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart (I love her suspense novels, but this one droned on for 150 pages before my heart rate even mildly accelerated.)
The movies that I watched on my computer were:
The African Queen (via Hoopla), which was a fun classic that my husband and I both enjoyed. On YouTube I started to watch a Hallmark mystery called
The Curious Caterer, but turned it off after 5 painful minutes of poor acting, banal script and odd situations.
The Carrot Cake Murder is a sequel of sorts to the
Murder, She Baked movies that I've raved about, but was so badly done that I barely hung on until the end. Finally, I watched another Hallmark mystery (via Frndly TV),
The Dancing Detective. The male character was over-the-top ridiculous, but he kept me laughing. Plus, the footage of Malta was breathtaking.
I linked to the books so you could read more about them, but I read all of them from library, thrift store or loaned copies. Hopefully, so can you.
Blessings,
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