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Sunday Inspiration: Troubles
Nothing is permanent in our troubled world. Not even our troubles.
—Charlie Chaplin
Sunday Inspiration: Coloring Books
How long will grown men and women in this world keep drawing in their coloring books an image of God that makes them sad?
—Meister Eckhart
Sunday Inspiration: Art Is Fundamental
Before a child talks they sing. Before they write they draw. As soon as they stand they dance. Art is fundamental to human expression.
—Phylicia Rashad
Sunday Inspiration: Where One Stands
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunday Inspiration: Gratitude
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sunday Inspiration: Loveliness
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
—Roald Dahl
Sunday Inspiration: Education
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
—Robert Frost
Sunday Inspiration: Courage
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
—G. K. Chesterton
Sunday Inspiration: Entertainment
I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people’s lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you’re able to entertain people, you’re doing a good thing.
—Stan Lee
New Review of Children of Pride
Thanks to Cari Jehlik for her kind words about Children of Pride!
What I liked:
I LOVE fantasy books and this book did not disappoint me at all. It’s definitely for younger readers, but I still loved it so very much.
The characters were well rounded, the explanation of how magic and The Wonder and other things did NOT feel info-dumpy, and there were some excellent curveballs thrown in that I did NOT see coming. The storylines were brilliantly woven and executed.
Oh, and I read it in one day. Yep, another one-day-er here.
What I didn’t like:
It was too short. And it’s not really that short of a book. But I would have liked more.
Overall thoughts and opinions:
There are actually FIVE books in this series and I intend to buy every single one of them, plus search out the Danny stand alone in an anthology called Fell Beasts and Fair. So if that’s not a clear indicator of how I feel about this book, I don’t know what is.
I wrote Into the Wonder for an audience of one (my daughter). It’s always gratifying to find out that other folks like it, too!
Darrell J. Pursiful 