Carolyn Astfalk has a first Wednesday of the month book review linkup!
In the interests of being as efficient with my time as I possibly can, I’m killing two birds with one stone. In addition to reviewing books for #OpenBook, I’ve started a monthly event on Facebook Live over at my author page. It’s called Sabbath Rest Book Talk, and in it I’ll talk about a few of the books I’ve read in the past month in terms of how they, as fiction, help us grow in humanity.
This month’s focus was on The Power of Story, or how fiction has the power to reach us in ways that real life just can’t.
October’s SRBT Featured Fiction:
Readaloud: Dragon Was Terrible by Kelly DiPuccio
YA: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd
(Special thanks to Sherrie of Sherrie’s Scriptorium for the recommendation via BookTuber Chelsea Palmer)
Adult: Image and Likeness: Literary Reflections on the Theology of the Body, co-edited by Ellen Gable and Erin McCole Cupp
And here’s the November 2016 Sabbath Rest Book Talk video!
Erin McCole Cupp 
Thanks for linking up, Erin! I’m going to see if my son might want to read A Monster Calls.
Make sure you keep the tissues handy. I believe that book could generate even the manliest of tears.