A beautiful book that would make a lovely gift for the father of the bride… ~ Sheila
Babies come in two kinds-boys and girls. We know that going into parenthood. Still, most dads get a little nervous when the nurse places in their arms a tiny bundle. They can relate to boys…football, toy trains, etc. A girl, on the other hand…well let’s be honest. What in the world does a father do when he’s invited for imaginary tea? Robert Wolgemuth puts these anxieties to rest, relating all the wonderful times that are waiting to be hand with a special little lady-your daughter. He focuses on what works, like “reading riddle books” and tenderness; and what doesn’t, like comparing her to other girls and harsh punishment. Best of all, this is a book about making an investment in the life of a little girl who, some day, will become one of her daddy’s closeset friends.
My Thoughts: This was a different read for me for several reasons. One it is written for a father. I am not a father. It is about fathers and daughters. I also do not have any daughters.
What is amazing about a book like this is that I dont have to be a father or have daughters to appreciate what Robert Wolgemuth is writing about here. In She Still Calls Me Daddy, Robert really brings his own personal stories to life here, as he shares with great passion and faith about having daughters, raising daughters, and then letting them go. I really enjoyed this book and as someone who never had the opportunity to have my father walk me down the aisle or have my dad meet my husband… it was bittersweet as to a relationship we could have had.
I think this book would make a wonderful gift for the father who is soon giving away his daughter.
This book was sent to me for review by Thomas Nelson
Hey all…. as you (my readers) know – the past two weeks around here have been a bit more crazy than usual with BBAW (WHICH ROCKED!!!) and the addition to our family for awhile (the amazing 14 year old Chance).
So – while I am still working on getting things back to semi normal around here…. I am finally posting the all important and fun weekly meme of Word verification Balderdash. (If you have not followed this fun post yet – please look here to see how to play).
The definition of Balderdash: An oft used strategy to elect your own fake definition in an attempt to give it credibility in the minds of your fellow players. …
I dont have a large offering today – but here are some fun ones I could play around with a bit:
presic: the feeling you have moments before you get sick… like you know it, but you are not sure… and then…. well… you know!
Chewsee: Being choosy about what you chew… like “I really am chewsee about Extra Gum”.
pairer: Someone who matches people up – like a dating service.
exestrot: Something not very nice that you wish on your ex boyfriend/girlfriend
So there is my weak contribution this week – hopefully some of you will have great ones to add!
Remember if you do this – leave me a link here and I will add you to this post! 🙂
Morning all. I have Coffee Cup in hand so this is a safe zone for all to enter. The crabbiness has passed. 🙂 Justin (college son) is coming back for the weekend so we are doing dinner tonight! YAY!!! I don’t know if I am cooking or if we are going out – but it is just great to have him here for a bit!
I should be finished with The Sister Pact today and I was up late last night as it was driving right into a huge last 40 pages or so climax and ….
I just couldn’t keep my eyes open.
How sad is that? The book is great and it had nothing to do with the book – I was just so tired.
So – review should be up this afternoon or tonight as well as the Carpet Boy review.
Chance is reading The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein and has shown an interest in reviewing it (pause for huge smile on my face here!).
I will help him with that when he is done with the book – either a review here or I will help him start him own review spot on wordpress.
Have to run and get Chance to school and me to work…. Lots more to say… even a great new blog I discovered – but I will have to save the suspense for later…
Oh and yes, there will be Word verification Balderdash…. oh yes, my friends – there will be balderdash later. 🙂
Seven school days now since Chance has been with us and still no school bus option.
“Hrumph” (or whatever Grumpy from Snow White would say in this situation…)
It is not that it is so bad – except the delivery of said 14 year old to school each day by 8 am seriously cuts into the meandering time…. especially since said 14 year old loves to chat at night when it is usually my reading alone time. I sound like a spoiled blogger…. LOL
So this morning I am whipping out a quick message and even Coffee Cup is a bit annoyed with me as I hurry to get ready for my day – drop Chance at School, get to the office, work on payroll, hair appointment at 1:30, pick up Chance at 3:15 and Group Power at 4:15. Depends on the weather if I will get to bike tonight with the Brainerd Group or not. Probably depends a bit on me working on the ‘tude as well. 🙂
Anyway – I have a review coming up late today – possibly two if I can finish the wonderful book I am reading, The Sister Pact.
I am currently in Cache Valley, Utah with Savannah Campton and Dective Ryan. We have just left the hospital after visiting Savannah’s sister Allison who is still in a coma from the fall that may – or may not have been an accident. I can feel Ryans tension as we are driving back to Allison’s home…. is Savannah involved? Did she harm her sister and if she did…. why? And wouldnt this whole scenario be easier if Ryan wasn’t so attracted to Savannah in the first place?
It is the first day of fall and I finally have a chance to get on line…. it has been a busy morning and now in my office I can crank out a little bit of “Sheilaism.” Coffee Cup and I have not made it to any blog stops this morning and that is a bit annoying as I love to start my mornings with visits.
However – never fear…. I do have something to chat about this morning so fill up your cup and pull up a chair.
So today I want to mention the books that is currently making its way through the blogesphere – Oprah’s latest book club pick, Say You’re One Of Them by Uwen Akpan.
On Friday, September 18, 2009, Oprah revealed the 63rd Oprah’s Book Club pick Say You’re One of Them by author Uwem Akpan. Her selection of Akpan’s debut collection marks the first time Winfrey has ever chosen a book of short stories. She said, “These stories left me stunned and profoundly moved.”
Told in five separate stories, each from the perspective of an African child protagonist, Say You’re One of Them vividly captures the resilience of children in the face of unimaginable devastation. Published in 2008, this compelling unforgettable work depicts Africa in its glory and grace as well as its horror and pain.
Author Uwem Akpan was born in Ikot Akpan Eda in southern Nigeria. After studying philosophy and English at Creighton and Gonzaga universities, he studied theology for three years at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa.
He was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 2003 and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan in 2006. “My Parents’ Bedroom,” a story from his short story collection, Say You’re One of Them, was one of five short stories by African writers chosen as finalists for The Caine Prize for African Writing 2007.
Say You’re One of Them won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region) 2009 and PEN/Beyond Margins Award 2009 and was finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. In 2007, Akpan taught at a Jesuit college in Harare, Zimbabwe. Now he serves at Christ the King Church, Ilasamaja-Lagos, Nigeria.
I am not one who follows what Oprah picks, but this book caught my attention and has held on. I think for me this is a read I will have to pursue… and coffee cup and I are on our way to do that right now.
Have you seen any books lately that are calling you?
I am excited to be able to share with my readers a chance to win a set of these five wonderful books – that’s right the winner(s) will receive a copy of each of these great reads! (Thank you to Valerie and Hachette Book Group)
1 entry for leaving a comment about a book, or author you have read from another culture than your own – please mention the title and or author
earn a 2nd entry by blogging or tweeting about this giveaway (please let me know on a separate post)
earn a 3rd entry bu commenting on any non giveaway post and letting me know on a separate comment
I will give away up to 5 sets of these books – 1 set per every 10 comments left here. If we have 50 comments by the time the contest ends we will be able to give away all 5 sets.
Contest will be open to USA and Canada residents only (no po boxes)
I have been meaning to draw these winners all weekend but it just didnt happen! So today I am finally able to do a bit of catching up and am thrilled to announce our last three BBAW Winners.
The winner of the prize package from a random drawing from comments on this blog between Sept 14 and Sept 18 goes to:
Congratulations J Kaye!!! How about that? You are a top commentor on my blog!
I am emailing you the gift card here shortly
Thank you to everyone who left comments here during BBAW! That was a lot of fun! I love my regular visitors and so enjoyed meeting new people and I am still actively seeking out the blogs of those who took the time to comment here.
I think I will start having a monthly contest for Amazon Gift Cards starting in October (they are so easy to do – just email to the winner!)
Reading this book – I ask myself, how many miracles sent my way do I miss? How many opportunities have I missed when I felt a need to say something and didn’t? ‘You Were Born For This’ was a great reminder. ~ Sheila
Summary
His New York Times phenomenon The Prayer of Jabez changed how millions pray. Now Bruce Wilkinson wants to change what they do next.
Anyone can do a good deed, but some good works can only happen by a direct intervention from God. Around the world these acts are called miracles—not that even religious people expect to see one any time soon. But what would happen if millions of ordinary people walked out each morning expecting God to deliver a miracle through them to a person in need? You Were Born for This starts with the dramatic premise that everyone at all times is in need of a miracle, and that God is ready to meet those needs supernaturally through ordinary people who are willing to learn the “protocol of heaven.”
In the straightforward, story-driven, highly motivating style for which he is known, Wilkinson describes how anyone can be a “Delivery Guy” from heaven in such universally significant arenas of life as finances, practical help, relationships, purpose, and spiritual growth.
Author Bios:
One of the world’s foremost Christian teachers, Bruce Wilkinson is best known as the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Prayer of Jabez. He is also the author of numerous other bestsellers, including A Life God Rewards, Secrets of the Vine, and The Dream Giver. Over the past three decades, Wilkinson has founded several global initiatives, including organizations that recruited and trained thousands of Americans to address hunger, AIDS, and poverty in Africa. Bruce and his wife, Darlene, have three children and six grandchildren. They live outside Atlanta.
David Kopp has collaborated with Bruce Wilkinson on over a dozen bestselling books, including The Prayer of Jabez. He is an editor and writer living in Colorado.
My Thoughts:
Many years ago I had read The Prayer of Jabez and really liked how Wilkinson put things into perspective. Now here I
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am again with another amazing book by Wilkinson sitting next to me as I type. While what Bruce is saying is to me – common sense… apparently it needs to be said as I for one tend to forget that we are to be constantly looking for ways to serve Him… ways to do His work here on earth and yet days go by where I dont go the extra few steps to talk to that neighbor out watering her flowers or the person I know is going to want to talk and talk and I just do not have (or take) the time to listen. *OUCH!*
There are topics in this book that I can and will use for my team training I am currently doing for our Fall Honduras Mission. I love the term “Intentional Miracle Workers.” This book really was a great read for me and a definite keeper for the book shelves. This is one I can refer to time and again.
And YES! Thank you to Staci for also sending me an extra copy to giveaway! To enter this giveaway:
One entry for answering this question: What can you do to be more open to miracles that are around us everyday?
receive a second entry by becoming a follow of this blog (two entries if you already are a follower but you need to tell me)
earn another entry by blogging or tweeting this giveaway.
That’s it. Giveaway will close October 17
This book was sent to me for review by Staci Carmichael from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group
This week I am planning to do a bit of “Blog Housekeeping.”
I want to dust off the awards that run along my sidebar and put them under a header tab along the top part of my blog. This way they will be neater and I can actually list the people who were so wonderful to send them my way. Much more organized… that’s the plan. 🙂
I also have a little sidebar updating to do. I am trying to figure out a cool way to keep my current reads on the side bar that is going to be easy for me to remember to update. Currently I tend to forget and then see something I have read a month ago listed as my current read. “Doh”! So not cool.
I am working on cleaning up my book related emails. I have them just hanging out all over the in box – book review requests, ones I have accepted, communications with authors/publishers. It is like a tornado hit and I need to call in a Cleaning crew to come and assist.
I am also a bit behind on my giveaways so need to do some random pics pretty quick here and get them moving so I can add new giveaways that are waiting patiently.
AND last but not least my Challenges need a little updating as well. I have books completed for the challenges that I have not acknowledged and I need to just get a grip on this.
So – as you look over my blog which is always open to upgrades, do you have any suggestions?
Babies come in two kinds-boys and girls. We know that going into parenthood. Still, most dads get a little nervous when the nurse places in their arms a tiny bundle. They can relate to boys…football, toy trains, etc. A girl, on the other hand…well let’s be honest. What in the world does a father do when he’s invited for imaginary tea? Robert Wolgemuth puts these anxieties to rest, relating all the wonderful times that are waiting to be hand with a special little lady-your daughter. He focuses on what works, like “reading riddle books” and tenderness; and what doesn’t, like comparing her to other girls and harsh punishment. Best of all, this is a book about making an investment in the life of a little girl who, some day, will become one of her daddy’s closeset friends.
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