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Top 10 Tuesday — Out of My Comfort Zone

11 Nov

Happy Tuesday! I am an eclectic reader — the only thing I don’t read are spicy books. IYKYK. 😉 It’s easy to read books that fit my parameters when I stick mostly to Christian fiction. So this week’s topic — books out of my comfort zone — was a bit daunting. I do know that I rarely read YA fiction simply because I’m not really the target audience, not because of topic or genre, so I am going to feature a few books that I have read and enjoyed (denoted with an asterisk) and a few that look very interesting. I hope you find one to love!

For more out of the comfort zone lists, head on over to That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Books Out of My Comfort Zone

The Charatan’s Boy by Jonathan Rogers*

Echo Nova by Clint Hall

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The June Boys by Court Stevens*

Starlighter by Bryan Davis*

The Story Peddler by Lindsay A. Franklin*

Storylore by Mae McKoy

The Text by Julane Fisher

Water’s Break by Sophia L. Hansen

The Whispers of The Wind by Abigail Thompson

Wicked is The Hollow by K. E. Ganshert*

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First Line Friday — The Bark of The Bog Owl

31 Jan

Happy Friday! Today I am featuring an author who came to our book festival last weekend. Jonathan Rogers is a hometown boy, a distinguished professor at Vanderbilt University, and the author of amazing middle grade books. His book The Bark of The Bog Owl recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. It, and the rest of the books in the series, would be a wonderful addition to your family’s library.

Here’s the first line:

My Dearest King —

You will be glad to learn that I am still available for any quest, adventure, or dangerous mission for which you might need a champion or knight-errant.

Courage and a heart for adventure drive twelve-year-old shepherd boy Aidan Errolson. When the bark of the bog owl echoes from the forest across his father’s well-tended pastures, Aidan dreams of wild places still untamed and quests not yet pursued. Aidan’s life changes forever on the day Bayard the Truthspeaker arrives at Longleaf with an astonishing pronouncement: it is Aidan’s destiny to be the Wilderking, who will ascend to the throne from Corenwald’s wildest places. Only the Wilderking can balance his people’s civilizing impulses with the wildness that gives Corenwald its vitality. But not just yet. Many trials and adventures will shape the shaggy-headed shepherd boy into the man who can bring the kingdom back to its former glory.

No matter what he is writing, Jonathan Rogers is motivated by the astonishing reality of God’s transforming grace in the lives of human beings. He is passionate about seeing the truths of Scripture bear fruit in the lives of students – lives of integrity, purpose, and joy. That passion is reflected in his books, including Words to Live By for Teens, What Really Counts for Students, and his Wilderking Trilogy of adventure novels – The Bark of the Bog Owl, The Secret of the Swamp King, and The Way of the Wilderking. Jonathan holds a PhD in English literature from Vanderbilt University. He lives with his family in Nashville Tennessee.

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