Great review! Again, I am excited to find you, as I have hosted many Teen Book Clubs and I tend to like grittier stories for them, as we together point to God and His perspective on things. I have a hard time keeping up with all the new genres of books that seem to be rooted in witchcraft and sorcery and quite honestly, filth. I have had the most engaging conversations with teens, when we have read books like The Outsiders and The Catcher in the Rye! Teens so relate to these stories! Thanks for presenting this life giving forum! 🫶🏼
Glad you enjoyed it! I too enjoy the conversation books can bring about! I am typically only having those conversations with my kiddos, but I enjoy it nonetheless. But yes, it is hard to find good fantasy books for teens unfortunately. It is why I wrote and am writing my book series, Fables of Laknohl. A clean series but will still have darker themes, like Tolkien’s mix of light and darkness. But I am always happy to find great new books for reading and for my kids to read! What are you reading? I’m working through Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell.
My daughter is 16 and in her Junior Year of Homeschooling High School and I am allowing her to design her English course this year. It is so fun to watch young hearts explore different authors and so far she has read Fareheight 451 and just began Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar". Plath's book contains very mature subject matter but I read a couple reviews from some God Loving people who said it is very "Ecclesiastical" read, touching on real life dilemmas and what following your dreams without God looks like. I was hesitant because my daughter reads fast and I told her about those 2 reviews that intrigued me and I thought we could read it together. We like using our library and our 2 copies are not in yet but we found a free PDF version and she is several chapters in and I am listening to the audible version, as I am a Caregiver and have aLOT of time to listen while working. Each afternoon when I come home from work, we have been engaging GREAT conversations and she is tying in the cry of David's heart in the Psalms to some of what the main character Ellie is experiencing. She keeps saying she can really relate to the cynism in this character. I think we are on to a very fruitful journey this school year!!! 🫶🏼
That’s wonderful! I’ve not read “The Bell Jar” or even heard of it. I’m not super familiar with modern writers as I didn’t have much of an interest in studying them while in university. Sounds like the expanded story of Virginia Woolf’s expanded essay “A Room of One’s Own.”
Great review! Again, I am excited to find you, as I have hosted many Teen Book Clubs and I tend to like grittier stories for them, as we together point to God and His perspective on things. I have a hard time keeping up with all the new genres of books that seem to be rooted in witchcraft and sorcery and quite honestly, filth. I have had the most engaging conversations with teens, when we have read books like The Outsiders and The Catcher in the Rye! Teens so relate to these stories! Thanks for presenting this life giving forum! 🫶🏼
Hey Stacie,
Glad you enjoyed it! I too enjoy the conversation books can bring about! I am typically only having those conversations with my kiddos, but I enjoy it nonetheless. But yes, it is hard to find good fantasy books for teens unfortunately. It is why I wrote and am writing my book series, Fables of Laknohl. A clean series but will still have darker themes, like Tolkien’s mix of light and darkness. But I am always happy to find great new books for reading and for my kids to read! What are you reading? I’m working through Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell.
My daughter is 16 and in her Junior Year of Homeschooling High School and I am allowing her to design her English course this year. It is so fun to watch young hearts explore different authors and so far she has read Fareheight 451 and just began Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar". Plath's book contains very mature subject matter but I read a couple reviews from some God Loving people who said it is very "Ecclesiastical" read, touching on real life dilemmas and what following your dreams without God looks like. I was hesitant because my daughter reads fast and I told her about those 2 reviews that intrigued me and I thought we could read it together. We like using our library and our 2 copies are not in yet but we found a free PDF version and she is several chapters in and I am listening to the audible version, as I am a Caregiver and have aLOT of time to listen while working. Each afternoon when I come home from work, we have been engaging GREAT conversations and she is tying in the cry of David's heart in the Psalms to some of what the main character Ellie is experiencing. She keeps saying she can really relate to the cynism in this character. I think we are on to a very fruitful journey this school year!!! 🫶🏼
That’s wonderful! I’ve not read “The Bell Jar” or even heard of it. I’m not super familiar with modern writers as I didn’t have much of an interest in studying them while in university. Sounds like the expanded story of Virginia Woolf’s expanded essay “A Room of One’s Own.”