February Book Review
As we turn another page over on the 2025 calendar, it is time to do the February Book Review. Links are at the bottom. I do not receive any compensation for your purchase and recommend shopping around <3
I did finish two books, although with full transparency the second one took me a few days into March to complete.
The first one I read was gifted to me at Christmas by a friend. It was written by the pastor at her daughter’s church on the East Coast. How to Quiet a Hurricane: Strategies for Christian Endurance in the Midst of Life’s Storms is written by Justin Kendrick.
I was unfamiliar with him, although I have heard my friend mention the work his church is doing. It was a good read and one I would say is more of a devotional genre. In the book he uses Scripture and both biblical, cultural and personal examples of how we can navigate the more difficult seasons of life.
I earmarked about a dozen pages that I want to retain some notes from. I will most likely pass this one along for someone else to read and benefit from.
It is a good book and I would recommend it to any who sometimes feel awash in the storms of life.
The second book was also given to me by one of our sweet customers at Tournesol. She also gave me the The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by the same offer, if you remember that review here https://www.laurareimer.net/first-book-review-of-the-year/
Lady Clementine, by Marie Benedict, is told from first person as if the wife of Winston Churchill was narrating her life to us. One thing I learned near the end is that her name is not pronounced the way we say it here in the States. She mentions that Clementine rhymes with “Josephine” and now I am retraining my brain to say it correctly.
I did check the historical accuracy of the book and found some varying comments. Overall, it does capture what her role as the wife of the bigger than life leader of England for over four decades.
It was interesting to read yet another woman’s perspective of the politics and culture of that time frame. She was ahead of her time and instrumental in her husband’s decisions and leadership.
The description of her struggles as a wife and mother, the role she was placed in and desired, along with her background and personality were as foreign to me as the setting in which she lived. But I loved reading this take on this chunk of world history.
I do recommend the book and will be passing it along. It was clean and well-written. This is my second book by this author and it had a completely different flare than the first which is refreshing.
What are you reading these days?