Nuggets Along the Trail: A Few Favorite Books

Over the years, we've always compared our family life to a wagon train heading west. Just as everyone had to do his part to get to Oregon years ago, so everyone in our family must do his/her part to make our journey through life successful. If somebody climbs in the wagon and lets the others do the work, we just don't make any progress. We all have to pull our weight and work together. Along the trail we find lots of pebbles that make for a smooth ride and some bigger rocks that jar us a little; we hit the occasional pothole that can slow us down. But if we purpose to search diligently, there are countless gold nuggets and precious gemstones along the way as well. This journal is an attempt to preserve some of those precious moments for our children, and our children's children, as together we travel this trail called life.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11

Friday, October 13, 2023

A Few Favorite Books

Way back sometime when I thought I had lots of time to blog hahaha I took these pictures with the intent to summarize each book. Almost two years later, and I'm tired of these px in my files so here they are with titles and authors but no summaries. You'll just have to trust me that they're good books. They really are.

I stumbled across Joan Hiatt Harlow when I found Thunder From The Sea at a garage sale years ago. We enjoyed Thunder so much that we promptly got a whole bunch of JHH books from the library. Since then, I've collected these few and am always keeping an eye out for more. Highly recommend for boys especially - most of them are historical fiction, based on actual events that aren't well known.

Random and all excellent.

Happy reading!

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JennyOctober 13, 2023 at 5:10 PM
We've read a few of these now, and also enjoyed them! :)
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