Linda Byler is Amish, so I was super excited to review this Amish debut novel by her. I thought that it would be interesting to read a fiction novel by someone who is actually Amish and who has all the "inside" knowledge of being Amish. I must admit, while not my absolute favorite, Running Around...
Moving wasn't easy but the Byler family did. A lot of work to be done on the new farm. The girls were afraid they wouldn't find a beau because not many boys lived in the area. Annie got really sick & had to be hospitalized because she had pneumonia. Melvin worked hard & worried about his wife Ann...
Got caught up in this story of a young Amish woman and her love of horses...and her family. The first couple chapters of the next book were good, too, but will have to wait for the whole book...This kind of book makes me yearn for a simpler life and a healthier me. I could not keep up with the ...
I got this book for my birthday as a gift and it was a wonderful and thoughtful gift at that. It had all the makings of my favorite things an Amish novel, Christmas and romance but it's a short book and not really about any of those things at all. The story is told from the perspective of a 13 ye...
Suddenly, the ice cream tasted like Pepto-Bismol and the succulent strawberries took on a shiny, grainy quality that turned her stomach. Waves of nausea rippled up her throat, and she looked over at Julie, a bit wild-eyed. “I don’t feel one bit well,” Lizzie said shakily. Julie raised an eyebrow....
They would eventually install water lines and lay sturdy carpet over the power-washed cement. Reuby and his family would live there until their new home was built.The women hosed down the furniture and washed it with a solution from the fire company. Then they washed it again with Pine-Sol or Mr....
There were wrapped presents on the old library table, and homemade bells hung from the window blinds. They’d cut egg cartons apart, folded aluminum foil over the small cups, strung them on red and green yarn, and tied red ribbon around them. They ha...
Lizzie and Mandy often did the milking alone, since Dat was working on the new addition. Mam’s garden was full of vegetables for Emma as well as for the wedding. Earlier that summer, Dat had plowed a large area behind the house, past the apple trees, and planted potatoes and sweet corn. Mam calle...
as Dorothy put it. She was taking extra vitamin B-12s all week. Her nerves would plain get the best of her if she wasn’t careful. Barbara Caldwell had spent entirely too much time in the kitchen, and Sadie knew it made Dorothy uncomfortable. But Barbara had planned the menu and stuck around to ma...
His step was light, he was ravenously hungry, he teased Sadie with a new lighthearted attitude she had never seen before. They ate sandwiches at the train station, they ate on the train, and they ate when the train arrived at the station in Montana. As Sadie watched her husband, she could only gu...
There was still applesauce to be done, and peaches and pears and grape jelly and grape juice. School sewing, though, was on top of Ruth’s list. It glared at her from beneath the square silver magnet on the refrigerator—the yellow slip of paper where she had written what sh...