Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Hi folks and welcome to this week's version of Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival. If you are with us for the first time, welcome. We are a successor to the Catholic Carnival run by Jay over at Living Catholicism. Rather than continuing the carnival, this format was chosen. Each participant is asked to create a post on his/her blog titled Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival. In that post, highlight and link to one or more of your posts from this week and provide a link to this post. Then come here and use Mr. Linky to link us to that post. I've been asked by people who post infrequently if they can just use Mr. Linky to take us directly to their post. If you choose to do that, please put a link to this post in your post, and invite your readers to participate in Sunday Snippets. The idea of Sunday Snippets is for us to direct our readers to other Catholic blogs--and for them to direct their readers to us. If you are the type of blogger who cares about such things, I weekly take the Mr. Linky links and change them into permanent links that will register on Techorati. Thanks to all for participating. If you'd like a weekly reminder to participate, you may subscribe to our yahoogroup.

My highlighted post this week isn't terribly Catholic but I'd like to recommend a good book with a strong pro-life message. Here is my review of Judy Duarte's Entertaining Angels.

1. Colleen 2. Karin@Daughter of the King 3. Luuk Dominiek OP 4. Laura (Catholic Teacher Musings) 5. bia at la dolce vita

6. Evann @ Homeschool Goodies 7. SAHMinIL 8. Renee (SAGA) 9. Elena@My Domestic Church 10. Cathy K

11. Nod 12. John Francis Borra, SFO 13. Charity Therese

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Faith n Fiction

Faith n Fiction Saturday over at Amy's has this question:
Today's Topic
It doesn't take long hanging around people who read Christian fiction before the usual names come up. Janette Oke. Francine Rivers. Karen Kingsbury. Dee Henderson. Ted Dekker. Frank Peretti. These are the best-sellers...the authors everyone knows. But there are so many authors who get less coverage but have huge amounts of talent. Today, choose either an author you think deserves a wider readership or a book you wish more people had read and share about them on your blog! Because as you all know, we need to add to our TBR (to be read) lists!

I just read one of those "you have to read this" books. It was an ARC, and I don't think it is out yet, but it needs to be on your TBR list. Silver Birches was great! and clicking on the title will take you to my review.

Stop by Amy's to see what other folks are recommending.

All of Me: Review and Contest

I like romance novels; both the secular and Christian versions. I like happy endings, easy reading and love. I know they aren't great literature that will be read through the ages, but they are fun. I know some readers of Christian fiction prefer not to read mass market romances because of the sexual content; but that doesn't bother me, as you may have noticed based on the books I've reviewed. Personally I don't think my expectations of romance novels are very high, but unfortunately All of Me didn't quite meet them. The story concept was good--a single attorney from Houston is left a lake house by her boss and mentor, who has been more of a father to her than her own ever was. Since his job has been taken by a man with whom she had an affair, who propositions her again on his first day on the job, she quits and decides to move to this lake house. The only problem is that when she gets there she finds his son-in-law (his daughter recently died) living there. He says the house was deeded to him four months ago. Of course the paperwork is a problem, of course there is no place else in this small town for either of them to live while sorting it out, of course sparks fly...

My basic problem with the book is that I found the language crude, and for no reason. Instead of all the other words that can be used to refer to one's backside, the one that starts with A was consistantly used. At some point he becomes physically aroused, and the story says something about him not wanting her to see his boner. There is one explicit sex scene and it is pretty much on par with what is expected in a book like this.

If this sounds like a book you'd like, Hatchette is allowing me to give away five copies. For one entry, leave me a comment with you name and email. For a second and entry, find another romance in my archives, name it in a comment and tell me whether I liked it our not, one comment per entry. The giveaway is subject to the usual Hatchette limitations: US and Canada only, no PO boxes.

My Review: The Sneakiest Pirates

My little one has really been enjoying The Sneakiest Pirates and another book by the same author, seven year old Dalton James. In The Sneakiest Pirates, Peg-leg Chuck, a pirate who has a hook for an arm, rather than a peg-leg, steals gold from the king and buries it on an island. Pirate Pete and his daddy Scurvy James see Chuck run off. While he is on the island, they go to his ship and steal all his stuff. When Chuck gets back to his ship, the king starts chasing him. Pete and James go dig up Chuck's treasure, fight over it and finally decide to share it. They head home to become rock stars.

Who is the author? Dalton James, age 7. If you'd like to see/read an interview with Dalton, click here.

As with James' other book, The Heroes of Googley Woogley, though Amazon lists the reading level as ages 9-12, I'd recommend the book for ages 4-6.

Reading level: Ages 9-12

Paperback: 20 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (May 17, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1432724770
ISBN-13: 978-1432724771