Bookie Day #2 (Wonderland Creek)

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...Alice Grace Ripley is your typical librarian. She loves books and doesn't really live much outside of them until her boyfriend dumps her and she gets laid off due to budget cuts during the depression. “If my life were a book, no one would read it. People would say it was too boring, too predictable. A story told a million times. But I was perfectly content with my life – that is, until the pages of my story were ripped out before I had a chance to live happily ever after.” 

                                                   

I'm not sure why I decided to do my first book review on here about a book that I didn't like, buuuuuuuuuuuuut, moving on....WONDERLAND CREEK!!!!  This is my absolute favorite book of fiction everrrrr!!! It's funny, adventurous, historical, it has several mysteries, it talks about prejudice, forgivness and even a little side of love!  I think I can relate to Alice in the sense that I know what it's like to really start living after the pages of your happily ever after gets ripped out and God starts writing your story. (mY STORY here)

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On an unusual whim, Alice decides to get out and goes with her Aunt and Uncle to deliver books to the poor people in the mountains of Kentucky, she never imagines that this one decision will take her on a fantastical, life-changing adventure. 

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As this sheltered city girl looks at the bloodied man, dying from a gunshot wound, in the middle of nowhere, this is the moment she starts really living..."If there's no doctor in town, what do people do when they're hurt or sick?" I asked. "You know how to pray girl?" "My father is a minister..." "Well, unless he's hiding out in the next room, he ain't gonna be any help to us is he? We best get praying!" 

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"She hates me!" Alice says of Bell, the horse Lily has forced her to learn how to ride. "Horses don't know how to hate Honey, only people are that stupid!" Says Lily. 

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The hero in this book is a 100-year-old black lady named Lily that has lived through slavery and hatred and overcome bitterness. She is the town's natural healer, mid-wife and known by all for her wisdom. Her only desire before going home to heaven, is knowing that her son, who her owner had sold and she has never found, knows Jesus. And while holding on to this one last dream, she pushes Alice into becoming the woman God wants her to be.

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“Ain't I been trying to tell you that you can't be holding grudges against people? Didn't you hear me say that? What do you think Jesus is gonna say if we come walking up to those pearly gates carrying a whole sackful of grievances and grudges on our backs? Jesus is gonna ask, What's that you toting on your back? Do you want to be opening that sack and showing Him all those ugly thing? He's dressed all in white and shining like the sun, and you're coming in with a load a hate in your your arms? Umm hmm. I can't imagine doing that.” 

― Lynn Austin, Wonderland Creek

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This book covers some pretty hard, rough places. While entertaining you with humor and mystery, amidst a family feud, a fake death, attempted murder, hidden treasure, lonely hearts, families searching for work, justice for the underpaid and overworked miners, baby blues, you are intrigued to search your own heart and pushed to dig deeper, go further and to just be a friend. This fantastical book of adventure ends with Alice back at home simply saying...

"I think Miss Lily is the wisest woman I've ever met." 

THE END

I highly recommend this adventure story!!!! 

You can order it paperback or my favorite Audible HERE!!! 

If you have any great book titles or authors that you recommend please let me know!!!

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♥Mary Frances :)

Bookie Day!!!

EVE By H.B. Moore  Book Review #1     False doctrine!!!

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First of all, this book is VERY WELL WRITTEN, it is intriguing and makes you want to keep going to find out what happens next.  It makes you think, wow, maybe it really could have happened this way. I personally could relate to the personality of Eve in the sense that she was sooooooo curious and was always asking Adam soooooo many questions!!! I liked how the story went back and forth between Adam's thoughts and Eve's.

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HOWEVERRRRRRR...               

Be aware Christians, This book is not Biblically sound! i noticed right away upon listening that things did not seem to line up Biblically speaking with the word of God!!! even though scripture was continually being used, the events did not correlate with what the Bible ACTUALLY says.

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 Lucifer did not appear to Eve as a man, but a serpent! "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" (Genesis 3:1)

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 There was no death in the world til sin entered. “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” (Romans 5:12) This book shows death entering into the world when Lucifer entered the garden, however, that is NOT what the Bible says!!! The Bible says that death began the moment SIN entered into the Garden, which was the moment man FIRST disobeyed God. "For since by man came death. . . For as Adam all die" (1 Corinthians 15:21-22).

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The Bible does NOT clearly state, although there was animals killed after sin entered the world for sacrifices, to push man's sin forward, till Jesus came and became the final sacrifice for our sin, For just as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous (Romans 5:19). However, the Bible does NOT clearly state that animals were eaten until AFTER the flood!!! "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." (Genesis 9:3)

 

When i realized that the story was beginning to allude that Eve had relations with Lucifer, i realized that this book HAD to be written by a Mormon, because the false doctrine, that Cain was the son of Lucifer, that is no where found in the Word Of God, is a Mormon belief. The Bible clearly states that Cain is the son of Adam and Eve and he was NOT born of the devil. "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord." (Genesis 4:1)

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After looking up the author and seeing where she graduated, i knew i was right about what i thought! i immediately turned off the story. Just like Lucifer appeared to Eve as a serpent in the garden, and deceived her to eat the fruit, Lucifer or one of his minions appeared to Joseph Smith and deceived him with false doctrine, telling him that he had "new" knowledge.

^" But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.  As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." (Galations 1:8-9)

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I enjoy when an author uses their imagination to make a Biblical story come to life, as long as the story does not in any way differentiate from what the actual Biblical scriptures say!!!! However, this author, while quoting scriptures, over and over again, then contradicts what the Bible ACTUALLY says.  Don't be deceived readers, although intriguing, this book is loaded with the devil's lies!!! God Bless and check out

 Lynn Austin's Biblical dramas instead!!!

♥Mary Frances :)