3/52 Joshua - God's Warrior

I am playing catch up on my 52 Books in 52 Weeks challenge
 
This is book three for the year

Joshua - God's Warrior 

by Ellen Gunderson Traylor.

• Format: Paperback
• Number of Pages: 288
• Publishers: Harvest House Publishers
• Publication Date: 1994
• ISBN: 1-56507-250-2
• Author Ellen Gunderson Traylor

This is the sequel to Moses The Deliverer and carries on where Moses ended. Walk with Joshua as he walks with Moses for forty years and God trains him to be a mighty warrior. I enjoyed the story and insights that Ellen brings to the person of Joshua. The story moves a lot slower than Moses but over all is still an enjoyable read.

Ellen says in her note to the reader: This is the story not only of God's working through prophecy, but of his special ordination of a military general. It reveals the demanding character of Yahweh, as well as his fatherhood, as he prepares Israel for its inheritance. ... it is also a story of one man's personal journey.

Enjoy
Blessings
Chareen

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2/52 Moses The Deliverer

I am playing catch up on my 52 Books in 52 Weeks challenge
 
This is book two for the year

Moses The Deliverer

Ellen Gunderson Traylor

E. Traylor

• Format: Paperback
• Number of Pages: 321
• Publishers: Harvest House Publishers
• Publication Date: 1990
• ISBN: 0-89081-781-2
• Author Ellen Gunderson Traylor

After reading this book I feel as though I have walked the halls of Pharaohs palace, wondered the Midian valleys and plains, been a student to the Priest Jethro, learned to pray and stood tall as I witnessed the deliverance of the priestly nation of Israel. I now know why Ms Traylor is called America's Foremost Biblical Novelist!

While this book is an easy read Ellen keeps you on the edge of your seat wanting to read more. She is truly a master story teller.  I enjoyed this book so much I have taken down it's sequel Joshua to read.

On the back:  "How God molds the character of Moses and guides him into the ways of righteousness, is a powerful story of human nature and divine love. In this riveting drama, you will be moved again by the undeniable truth that God can shape the life of any man or woman into a life of greatness for His glory."

This one rates *****

This book is listed on Good Reads and scored a 4/5 stars.

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1/52 - Unveiled the story of Tamar.

I had such grand intentions at the beginning of the year but it's another thing altogether to get those intentions into reality! I have also discovered that I need to rearrange my habits to make room for an old one that is my best friend ! So I am playing catch up on my 52 Books in 52 Weeks challenge
 
In another challenge to read my bible Cover to Cover I was reading about  Jacobs family and it goes on to speak about Tamar in passing (Genesis 38).  This got me thinking about this book and re-reading it I am so glad that I did.

Unveiled the story of Tamar 

(Series: Lineage of Grace)

Francine Rivers

• Format: Hardback
• Number of Pages: 173
• Publishers: Tyndale House
• Publication Date: 1 December 2000
• ISBN: 9780842319478
• Author Francine Rivers

This book is an easy read and opens up the world of old.  Francine does an excellent job of taking the reader to the era with it's customs and traditions. She has excellently woven together biblical and historic history.

Tamar is often ignored or thought little of in the reading of the word yet she is mentioned in the lineage of Jesus.  To read an outline of the book you can go to Praise for Unveiled.

Unveiled was a 2001 Christy Award finalist

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Genre and Sub Genre {Science Fiction / Fantasy} 4/5

Welcome to day 4 of Genre and Sub Genre.  I was poking around at the host blog for 52 Books in 52 Weeks and discovered an interesting page about genre and sub genre.  I have always wondered what the different genre classifications were  in books so wanted to share them here with you.

There are 5 categories so will share one a day this week.

• Romance
• Horror
• Thriller / Suspense
• Science Fiction / Fantasy
• Mystery / Crime

Genre and Sub Genre categories

Science Fiction/Fantasy

1. Alternate History: speculative fiction that changes the accepted account of actual historical events, often featuring a profound “what if?” premise.
2. Arthurian Fantasy: reworkings of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
3. Bangsian Fantasy: stories speculating on the afterlives of famous people.
4. Biopunk: a blend of film noir, Japanese anime and post-modern elements used to describe an underground, nihilistic biotech society.
5. Children’s Fantasy: a kinder, gentler style of fantasy aimed at very young readers.
6. Comic: fantasy or science fiction that spoofs the conventions of the genre, or the conventions of society.
7. Cyberpunk: stories featuring tough outsiders in a high-tech near-future where computers have produced major changes in society.
8. Dark Fantasy: tales that focus on the nightmarish underbelly of magic, venturing into the violence of horror novels.
9. Dystopian: stories that portray a bleak future world.
10. Erotic: SF or fantasy tales that focus on sexuality.
11. Game-Related Fantasy: tales with plots and characters similar to high fantasy, but based on a specific role-playing game like Dungeons and Dragons.
12. Hard Science Fiction: tales in which real present-day science is logically extrapolated to the future.
13. Heroic Fantasy: stories of war and its heroes, the fantasy equivalent of military science fiction.
14. High/Epic Fantasy: tales with an emphasis on the fate of an entire race or nation, often featuring a young “nobody” hero battling an ultimate evil.
15. Historical: speculative fiction taking place in a recognizable historical period.
16. Mundane SF: a movement that spurns fanciful conceits like warp drives, wormholes and faster-than-light travel for stories based on scientific knowledge as it actually exists.
17. Military SF: war stories that extrapolate existing military technology and tactics into the future.
18. Mystery SF: a cross-genre blend that can be either an SF tale with a central mystery or a classic whodunit with SF elements.
19. Mythic Fiction: stories inspired, or modeled on, classic myths, legends and fairy tales.
20. New Age: a category of speculative fiction that deals with occult subjects such as astrology, psychic phenomena, spiritual healing, UFOs and mysticism.
21. Post-Apocalyptic: stories of life on Earth after an apocalypse, focusing on the struggle to survive.
22. Romance: speculative fiction in which romance plays a key part.
23. Religious: centering on theological ideas, and heroes who are ruled by their religious beliefs.
24. Science Fantasy: a blend in which fantasy is supported by scientific or pseudo-scientific explanations.
25. Social SF: tales that focus on how characters react to their environments Ð including social satire.
26. Soft SF: tales based on the more subjective, “softer” sciences: psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc.
27. Space Opera: a traditional good guys/bad guys faceoff with lots of action and larger-than-life characters.
28. Spy-Fi: tales of espionage with SF elements, especially the use of high-tech gadgetry.
29. Steampunk: a specific type of alternate history in which characters in Victorian England have access to 20th century technology.
30. Superheroes: stories featuring characters endowed with superhuman strengths or abilities.
31. Sword and Sorcery: a classic genre often set in the medieval period, and more concerned with immediate physical threats than high or heroic fantasy.
32. Thriller SF: an SF story that takes on the classic world-at-risk, cliffhanger elements of a thriller.
33. Time-Travel: stories based on the concept of moving forward or backward in time, often delving into the existence of parallel worlds.
34. Urban Fantasy: a fantasy tale in which magical powers and characters appear in an otherwise normal modern context, similar to Latin American magical realism.
35. Vampire: variations on the classic vampire legend, recently taking on many sexual and romantic variations.
36. Wuxia: fantasy tales set within the martial arts traditions and philosophies of China.
37. Young Adult: speculative fiction aimed at a teenage audience, often featuring a hero the same age or slightly older than the reader.

Thank you to Writers Digest and 52 books in 52 weeks for the sub genre breakdown

Blessings

Genre and Sub Genre {Thriller/Suspense} 3/5

Welcome to day 3 of Genre and Sub Genre.  I was poking around at the host blog for 52 Books in 52 Weeks and discovered an interesting page about genre and sub genre.  I have always wondered what the different genre classifications were  in books so wanted to share them here with you.

There are 5 categories so will share one a day this week.

• Romance
• Horror
• Thriller / Suspense
• Science Fiction / Fantasy
• Mystery / Crime

Genre and Sub Genre categories

THRILLER/SUSPENSE

   

1. Action: a story that often features a race against the clock, lots of violence, and an obvious antagonist.
2. Comic: a thriller played for laughs, whether through a spoof of the genre or wisecracking interplay between the protagonists.
3. Conspiracy: a thriller in which the hero battles a large, powerful group whose true extent only he recognizes.
4. Crime: a story focused on the commission of a crime, often from the point of view of the criminals.
5. Disaster: a story in which Mother Nature herself is the antagonist, in the form of a hurricane, earthquake or some other natural menace.
6. Eco-Thriller: a story in which the hero battles some ecological calamity Ð and often has to also fight the people responsible for creating that calamity.
7. Erotic: a thriller in which sex plays a major role.
8. Espionage: the classic international spy novel, which is enjoying a resurgence with one important change: where spies used to battle enemy spies, they now battle terrorists.
9. Forensic: a thriller featuring the work of forensic experts, whose involvement often puts their own lives at risk.
10. Historical: a thriller taking place in a specific and recognizable historic period.
11. Horror: a story—generally featuring some monstrous villain Ð in which fear and violence play a major part, complete with graphic descriptions.
12. Legal: a thriller in which a lawyer confronts enemies outside as well as inside the courtroom, generally putting his own life at risk.
13. Medical: a thriller featuring medical personnel, whether battling a legitimate medical threat such as a world-wide virus, or the illegal or immoral use of medical technology.
14. Military: a thriller featuring a military protagonist, often working behind enemy lines or as part of a specialized force.
15. Police Procedural: a crime thriller that follows the police as they work their way through a case.
16. Political Intrigue: a thriller in which the hero must ensure the stability of the government that employs him.
17. Psychological: a suspenseful thriller in which the conflict between the characters is mental and emotional rather than physical—until an often violent resolution.
18. Romantic: a thriller in which the protagonists are romantically involved.
19. Supernatural: a thriller in which the hero, the antagonist, or both have supernatural powers.
20. Technological: a thriller in which technology Ð usually run amok Ð is central to the plot.

Thank you to Writers Digest and 52 books in 52 weeks for the sub genre breakdown
Blessings

Genre and Sub Genre {Horror} 2/5

Welcome to day 2 of Genre and Sub Genre.  I was poking around at the host blog for 52 Books in 52 Weeks and discovered an interesting page about genre and sub genre.  I have always wondered what the different genre classifications were  in books so wanted to share them here with you.

There are 5 categories so will share one a day this week.

• Romance
• Horror
• Thriller / Suspense
• Science Fiction / Fantasy
• Mystery / Crime

Genre and Sub Genre categories

HORROR

1. Child in Peril: involving the abduction and/or persecution of a child.
2. Comic Horror: horror stories that either spoof horror conventions or that mix the gore with dark humor.
3. Creepy Kids: horror tale in which children Ð often under the influence of dark forces Ð begin to turn against the adults.
4. Dark Fantasy: a horror story with supernatural and fantasy elements.
5. Dark Mystery/Noir: inspired by hardboiled detective tales, set in an urban underworld of crime and moral ambiguity.
6. Erotic Vampire: a horror tale making the newly trendy link between sexuality and vampires, but with more emphasis on graphic description and violence.
7. Fabulist: derived from “fable,” an ancient tradition in which objects, animals or forces of nature are anthropomorphized in order to deliver a moral lesson.
8. Gothic: a traditional form depicting the encroachment of the Middle Ages upon the 18th century Enlightenment, filled with images of decay and ruin, and episodes of imprisonment and persecution.
9. Hauntings: a classic form centering on possession by ghosts, demons or poltergeists, particularly of some sort of structure.
10. Historical: horror tales set in a specific and recognizable period of history.
11. Magical Realism: a genre inspired by Latin-American authors, in which extraordinary forces or creatures pop into otherwise normal, real-life settings.
12. Psychological: a story based on the disturbed human psyche, often exploring insane, altered realities and featuring a human monster with horrific, but not supernatural, aspects.
13. Quiet Horror: subtly written horror that uses atmosphere and mood, rather than graphic description, to create fear and suspense.
14. Religious: horror that makes use of religious icons and mythology, especially the angels and demons derived from Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost.
15. Science-Fiction Horror: SF with a darker, more violent twist, often revolving around alien invasions, mad scientists, or experiments gone wrong.
16. Splatter: a fairly new, extreme style of horror that cuts right to the gore.
17. Supernatural Menace: a horror tale in which the rules of normal existence don’t apply, often featuring ghosts, demons, vampires and werewolves.
18. Technology: stories featuring technology that has run amok, venturing increasingly into the expanding domain of computers, cyberspace, and genetic engineering.
19. Weird Tales: inspired by the magazine of the same name, a more traditional form featuring strange and uncanny events (Twilight Zone).
20. Young Adult: horror aimed at a teen market, often with heroes the same age, or slightly older than, the reader.
21. Zombie: tales featuring dead people who return to commit mayhem on the living.

T hank you to Writers Digest and 52 books in 52 weeks for the sub genre breakdown
Blessings

Genre and Sub Genre {Romance} 1/5

As some of you know I have decided to partake in the 52 Books in 52 weeks challenge this year. I might just get to read all those wonderful books I have purchased and are sitting on the shelf begging to be read.

I was poking around at the host blog and discovered an interesting page about genre and sub genre.  I have always wondered what the different genre classifications were  in books so wanted to share them here with you.

There are 5 categories so will share one a day this week.

• Romance
• Horror
• Thriller / Suspense
• Science Fiction / Fantasy
• Mystery / Crime

gen·re/ˈZHänrə/

Noun:	A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
Synonyms:	style - type - kind - sort - manner - genus

Genre and Sub Genre categories

ROMANCE

1. Chick-Lit: often humorous romantic adventures geared toward single working women in their twenties and thirties.
2. Christian: romances in which both hero and heroine are devout Christians, typically focused on a chaste courtship, and mentioning sex only after marriage.
3. Contemporary: a romance using modern characters and true-to-life settings.
4. Erotica: also called “romantica,” a romance in which the bedroom doors have been flung open and sexual scenes are described in candid language.
5. Glitz/Glamor: focused on the jet-set elite and celebrity-like characters.
6. Historical: a romance taking place in a recognizable historical period.
7. Multicultural: a romance centered on non-Caucasian characters, largely African-American or Hispanic.
8. Paranormal: involving some sort of supernatural element, ranging widely to include science fiction/fantasy aspects such as time travel, monsters or psychic abilities.
9. Romantic Comedy: a romance focused on humor, ranging from screwball antics to witty interplay.
10. Romantic Suspense: a novel in which an admirable heroine is pitted against some evil force (but in which the romantic aspect still maintains priority).
11. Sensual: based on the sensual tension between hero and heroine, including sizzling sex scenes.
12. Spicy: a romance in which married characters work to resolve their problems.
13. Sweet: a romance centered on a virgin heroine, with a storyline containing little or no sex.
14. Young Adult: written with the teenage audience in mind, with a suitably lower level of sexual content.

Thank you to Writers Digest and 52 books in 52 weeks for the genre and sub genre breakdowns.

Blessings

52 books in 52 weeks for 2012

I love to read.  It's my idea of a good holiday and one of the best ways to recharge and refresh.  When I was at school it was nothing for me to read a 1 000 page book in two days.


In case you are wondering I did not love reading as a young child.  When I was around 10 years old I can remember my Mom offering me R10 (the equivalent of around $100 now) to read one 150 page book.  I tried but gave up after two days.

It was not until I reached high school that I started enjoying reading. I think I was around fourteen years old.  It would take me a whole week to read ONE 150 page book! After about four months I was up to eight books a week and progressed to longer novels.  The library became my new best friend.

Then ....

               new seasons in my life meant that the time was no longer available to read.

Reading for me is as essential as breathing is to live.  I was sitting thinking that I can't remember when last I read for pleasure or learning on a regular basis.  So when I read about this challenge I became inspired to start reading again.

52 Books in 52 weeks 2012 Challenge

So who is up for the challenge and will join me in the new year ?


Look at what I have in my book basket: 

52 in 52.

Blessings

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