I’m a big proponent of education options. My son attended a charter school from second grade through graduation and I was thrilled he had that opportunity. This novel talks about the Amish and their view towards education, which tends to be very different than the views held in the Englisch world. Ella Hilty loves to…
A little bit over one percent of the crime in Pennsylvania is committed by the Amish. Most of that crime consists of drunken driving violations done by young people during the time they call Rumspringa, a period where they are allowed to experiment with the English world while trying to decide if they want to…
World War 2 romances are a favorite of mine and I tend to pick up anything set in this time period. With this particular novel I was excited to explore a piece of history heretofore undiscovered by me – the part of the Amish in this important conflict. I hadn’t really thought about what it…
I attended college in Amish country. Having lived in close connection to the Amish for four years was certainly an interesting experience for me coming from the city. A lot of my friends who grew up there watched me in fascination as I got giddy about passing a horse and buggy on the road. Over…
Unexpected friendships are one of the sweet surprises of life. It is always a joy when we find ourselves bridging age diversity or another difference to form an acquaintanceship with a person truly at variance from ourselves. The two main characters of this novel cross the divides of a generation gap and religion to form…
E.F. Schumacher said “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” That is precisely what the heroine of our book has done – traded a complex, successful life in the English world for…
Through a relative’s slip of the tongue, Lydia discovers that she has living sisters. After her family’s accident in which her parents were killed, the three young sisters were split up, Lydia and her sister Susanna to Amish couples and her youngest sister Chloe to her English, non-Amish grandmother. Since the girls were so young…
Van Halen wisely tells us, “I found the simple life ain’t so simple/When I jumped out on that road.” When the main character of In Plain View first thought about joining the Amish, she had no idea just how true these words would prove to be. Annie Friesen left her high tech job with its…
i haven’t been a big fan of the Amish craze. I was quite surprised, therefore, to find myself intrigued by this book. Intrigued enough to pick it for review. I was even more surprised by just how much I liked it. Annie Friesen finds her life crumbling around her. Her business partner is conspiring with…
Know two things up front about Gray’s new Secrets of Crittenden County series of which this is book one: The plots and subplots go unresolved in this volume, and this is a short, introductory story. If it doesn’t bother you to pay $12.99 for the beginning snippets of a story, then this might be the…
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