August seems to have passed in a flash. We celebrated 2 birthdays in our family, I’ve been working on my digital cookbook and helping my daughter prepare to move interstate. All in all it’s meant I haven’t written a blog post since the July reading log. Below are the books that I managed to finish in August. Mainly novels this month, mostly read when we went away for the weekend, and also one non-fiction book.
The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt by Russ Harris
As the title suggests this book is about moving forward with confidence, despite fear & self-doubt. It’s a very practical book. Russ Harris shares and expands on 10 rules for winning the game of confidence. These include:
- The actions of confidence come first; the feelings of confidence come later.
- Genuine confidence is not the absence of fear; it is a transformed relationship with fear.
Many of the practices Russ Harris teaches are similar to and complement some of the spiritual practices I learnt in “The Inner Life of a Disciple of Christ” subject, I completed as part of my studies last year.
Two Sisters by Josephine Cox
Two sisters who’ve grown up as daughters of a farm labourer both get jobs at the nearby big house. Ellen follows the steady path but Georgina takes a darker road. Her actions will have consequences for them all.
Wild Lavender by Belinda Alexandra
At fourteen, Simone is sent from her childhood home on a Provencal lavender farm to work in Marseille. Her life is hard but she discovers the music hall & a dream to be a famous dancer and singer. This leads her to Paris. As war begins, Simone makes a decision that will lead to great danger.
Liverpool Sisters by Lyn Andrews
In 1907, thanks to their father’s success, the Goodwin family moves to a better part of Liverpool. Tragedy strikes when Livvie and Amy’s mother dies in childbirth. Thomas has plans for his daughters but Livvie is interested in the Suffragettes & is attracted to her father’s factory manager. The happy future the girls took for granted is far from certain.
Beyond the Silence by Tracie Peterson & Kimberley Woodhouse
Lillian leaves her overbearing grandfather to take up a position as a nanny in the west. Jimmy, her six-year-old charge witnessed his mother die and hasn’t spoken a word since. Is this a safe place for Lillian to work and will Jimmy every speak again?
What have you been reading lately?
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