S. D. Smith on The Cultured Bumpkin
Sam was recently a guest on The Cultured Bumpkin podcast with host, Jake Phillips.
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What I’m Handing My Teen to Read this Summer (So Far)
I know I’m not the only parent constantly scrambling for good books to hand to my kids, and if you, like me, are searching that place beyond the middle-grade section, I hope some of these wins for us might be wins for you, too.
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Think It Over
Any encouragement to slow down and take a minute to think is much needed in our day and age. Insert pre-teens or teenagers into the mix, and you can multiply that need by ten or a hundred.
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I Am the Captain of My Soul, and Other Lies We’ve Believed
While I sympathize with the sentiment to try to conquer whatever circumstances are currently befalling us, we are still at the mercy of the tides.
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June Giveaway: Mended Wood Literary Society
This month’s giveaway will award one lucky winner a bag full of books for America’s 250th next month!
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Review: Stories Woven in Silver
When families are equipped to enjoy the freedom and joy that come from good stories, a world opens up: one that emphasizes the goodness of God’s world, the fallenness of man, and the truth found in the pages of the Bible.
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Review: The Teacher of Nomad Land
This is a story that resonates perfectly with the words from The Brothers Karamazov, “something profound will appear at the end of time to make sense of all the bloodshed.”
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Mike Mulligan and Beyond: the Work of Virginia Lee Burton
Virginia Lee Burton’s books have been a fixture in our home since my children were tiny.
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Review: The Girl and the Green hat
Throughout the story, we see more clearly how Addie’s heart has grown hard under the weight of carrying so much pain at such a young age.
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May Giveaway: Mended Wood Literary Society
Today we’re filling up a library bag with favorites about nature. I am not exaggerating when I say this is the prettiest bunch of books we’ve given away.
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A Conversation with Joe Sutphin
This was not an illustrated novel being proposed, but hundreds of pages of sequential comics. Rabbits by the thousands and more landscapes than any I had ever drawn, combined. I knew it would be an undertaking like no other, and to this day I have not faced such a challenge.
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April Giveaway: Mended Wood Literary Society
This month’s booklist is all inspired by the Artemis II mission; we’ve got space books, an astronomer biography, and even a couple of graphic novels!
