March Books

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The Love of Christ: Expository Sermons on Verses from Song of Solomon Chapters 4-6 by Richard Sibbes.
I love reading English Puritan literature, but it's an acquired taste, and the language (even updated, as in this edition) won't be to everyone's taste. This is a beautiful series of sermons on the Song of Songs as an allegory of Christ's love for the Church, which was the favored interpretation at the time. I think it's safe to say that seventeenth-century preaching demanded more from the audience than most contemporary preaching does. I had to take this in little chunks, which I read over many months of Sundays. I underlined a lot of things I want to come back to later.

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Total read: 5

My March reads

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Laura Frantz – Love’s return 4/5
Rowena Ballantyne and her father Ansel live happily in a small town in Kentucky when Ansel gets word of the failing health of his father Silas. Ansel and Rowena move to the Pennsylvania, a world far removed from everything Rowena knows. She feels out of sorts among her rich family and the high society they move in. She finds a friend and confidante in one of her grandfather's employees, steamship pilot James Sackett.

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