Christmas at the Keep: A moving and uplifting festive novella to escape with at Christmas

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g] I make my own lists…but I forget to update them and before you know it a lot of time passes before I read that author and so I’m thankful that someone has made these lists of books in a series available to all of us.

The most likeable is Belinda, who is good at art and excellent at caricatures, but as absent-minded as the musical Irene.I only recently learned that ‘Missee Lee’ is, similarly, supposed to have been a fictional story written by the (fictional) characters, which explains, perhaps, why it’s so exciting and (frankly) a bit surreal in places. Some readers did not like how little plot there was in the book and that there was not a lot of fast moving events in the novel to keep it interesting.

I’m not sure exactly why Brennan Manning’s writing appeals to me so much, but I find his style very readable, his comments and suggestions highly motivating, and his anecdotes moving even when they relate events or situations which feel entirely foreign.The guesthouse is in Devon, and is a place they had previously visited so they’re interested to see the renovations, and familiar with the area nearby, so they go out in pairs to explore, wondering why the Colonel’s wife is so keen to know where they’re going all the time. While I appreciate all offers of donations to show your appreciation for the site, I’d much rather you do that by supporting causes that need the money far more than I do. He’s always honest, somewhat self-deprecating, well aware of his faults and foibles, and yet he knows, absolutely, that God loves him for who he is, and that there’s nothing more worth doing than walking with Jesus. Willett knows how to develop not just characters, but the relationships that they have with the other characters in the novels.

Darrell becomes friendly with the lively and mischievous Alicia, and would mostly have ignored Sally but for a letter from her mother, who has met Sally’s mother and baby sister.I perused my shelves for quite a while, knowing it needed to be fairly quick to read, yet I didn’t want another very short children’s book. There are abrupt changes in perspective and timeline that jarred me out of the story too often, and the characters and plot were just kind of boring after a while.

I thought it was very well done, within the bounds of a pocket-novel or novella format, with a positive outcome… and then an epilogue that complemented the story nicely, though to say anything else would be too much of a spoiler. So she’s delighted to discover that Roger has been studying Latin, and determines to hold Latin classes for all her visitors. However it sometimes takes me a while to find one of them to read; it happens most often when I’m travelling. Sit down at a table with people we love, as if serving every meal to an important guest, rather than grabbing junk food in the kitchen. Recommended if you like gentle women’s fiction, particularly if you have read and liked other books by this author.

He was a deeply flawed and somewhat outspoken Catholic priest whose books were honest, moving and - at times - controversial. When a co-worker injures himself, Matt must stay back in Truro to man the fort while Liv and the children travel to her father-in-law’s summer cottage in south Devon. I don’t know that anything in the book was new to me, and I have already forgotten quite a bit of what I read, but I thought it had some thought-provoking reminders about living in the moment, gratefulness and acceptance.