I am excited about my book clubs’ selections this month. By The Book is reading favorite author Eva Marie Everson‘s Five Brides, a book perfect for our Valentine’s Day meeting. (And for those who think Valentine’s Day is all wrong for a book club to meet, we are inviting our spouses/special someone for a dinner before we kick them out and discuss the book! LOL!) Page Turners will join my Faith And Fiction Bible Study in a discussion of Miriam by Mesu Andrews. I am looking forward to discovering more about Moses’ sister and what God has to share with us.
Have you read either one of these books? What did you think?
Five Brides by Eva Marie Everson
One dress, five women, a lifetime of memories.
Five single, fiercely independent women live together in a Chicago apartment in the early 1950s but rarely see one another. One Saturday afternoon, as they are serendipitously together downtown, they spy a wedding dress in a storefront window at the famous Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. After trying it on—much to the dismay of the salesclerk and without a single boyfriend or date between the five of them—they decide to pool their money to purchase it. Can one dress forever connect five women who live together only a short time before taking their own journeys to love and whatever comes happily ever after?
Miriam: A Treasures of The Nile Novel by Mesu Andrews
The Hebrews call me prophetess, the Egyptians a seer.
But I am neither. I am simply a watcher of Israel
and the messenger of El Shaddai.
When He speaks to me in dreams, I interpret. When He whispers a melody, I sing.
At eighty-six, Miriam had devoted her entire life to loving El Shaddai and serving His people as both midwife and messenger. Yet when her brother Moses returns to Egypt from exile, he brings a disruptive message. God has a new name – Yahweh – and has declared a radical deliverance for the Israelites.
Miriam and her beloved family face an impossible choice: cling to familiar bondage or embrace uncharted freedom at an unimaginable cost. Even if the Hebrews survive the plagues set to turn the Nile to blood and unleash a maelstrom of frogs and locusts, can they weather the resulting fury of the Pharaoh?
Enter an exotic land where a cruel Pharaoh reigns, pagan priests wield black arts, and the Israelites cry out to a God they only think they know.
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