Category: Fiction

Adult fiction reviews.

Family Law by Gin Phillips

Bonnie Way December 29, 2021

Family Law, a novel by Gin Philips

Fiction

Starlight by Richard Wagamese

Bonnie Way October 28, 2021

Starlight by Richard Wagamese

Fiction

"God is God and sees and knows what I cannot. I cannot fight what he wills. Although, as much as I try to trust in God and pray to trust, I still struggle with it, even now when I know my time on the earth is most likely drawing to a close." ~ St. Zelie Martin, The Lacemaker

Bonnie Way June 30, 2021

The Lacemaker: a novel of St. Zelie Martin

Catholicism

"A story is the best way to learn about times past, and John Desjarlais spins a gripping story. I wondered how he could make such a giant of a saint real and relatable to modern readers. Succat seems to step off the pages in all his overweight, arrogant stubbornness—a boy whom God will slowly transform into a saint." ~ Bonnie Way on The Light of Tara by John Desjarlais

Bonnie Way May 20, 2021

The Light of Tara: a novel of St. Patrick

Catholicism

With a shamrock as our touchstone, this book takes us on a journey through an expanse of time from ancient to modern. ~ Cathy Gilmore

Bonnie Way March 5, 2021

Treasures: Visible & Invisible (St. Patrick’s Day Stories for Teens)

Fiction

The best books of 2020, as chosen by Bonnie Way, including The Last Blue by Isla Morley, The Beautiful Ashes of Gomez-Gomez by Buck Storm, The Complete Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, The Woman in the Trees by Theoni Bell, and The Shadow in the Dark by Antony Barone Kolenc.

Bonnie Way December 31, 2020

Best Books of 2020 (fun fiction for the whole family!)

Fiction

Something Worth Doing by Jane Kirkpatrick, a novel of early suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway and her fight for women's right to vote in Oregon.

Bonnie Way December 15, 2020

Something Worth Doing: the story of Abigail Scott Duniway

Fiction

Shadow in the Dark (book 1 in the Harwood Mysteries) by Antony Barone Kolenc

Bonnie Way December 3, 2020

Shadow in the Dark (a historical Catholic YA novel)

Catholicism

"A fur trader might provide his daughter with the trappings of success, but even a Chief Factor could not free her from wedlock, once caught in the matrimonial snare." Vanessa Winn in Trappings

Bonnie Way November 3, 2020

Trappings by Vanessa Winn tells Kate Wallace’s story

Fiction

The Woman in the Trees by Theoni Bell, a novel about America's first approved Marian apparition.

Bonnie Way August 22, 2020

The Woman in the Trees by Theoni Bell

Catholicism