Life, Love and Books

    The Prince and The Prodigal by Jill Eileen Smith   This is a retelling of the biblical story of Joseph alongside the story of his eldest brother Judah.  We find Joseph being trained to take over as the heir to his fathers flocks. Which causes much strife between Joseph and his elder brothers  to the point of causing grief for their elderly father. Joseph finds himself in a very foreign land as an servant to powerful man. While back with his family, eldest brother Judah is struggling with the guilt that came with selling his younger brother to slave traders. Weighed down with seeing his father grieving for his beloved son, Judah chooses to move away and settle in a different land. Each of the brothers are taken on very much different journeys that leads them down a path that intersect later in life. Jill Eileen Smith takes a well known bible story and gives us a deeper insight to it. She helps us to see deeper into the relationship between Joseph and his elde...

To Dwell Among Cedars by Connilyn Cossette   I love reading stories written in the bible times, Connilyn Cossette has became one of my favorite authors to read. She takes stories out the bible and helps us to see it in a very different outlook. Her latest series Israel had any Kings and the Prophet Samuel still leading them. We meet 2 philistine siblings, a young brother and sister; who were directed by their beloved nurse to follow the ark. Their journey takes them far from the homeland to a very strange land with customs that are very foreign to them. When an Israelite family take Eliora and her brother as their own, she finds hope and safety for the first time in a long while. But she still struggles with feeling like she does not belong. When tensions start rising in the nation of Israel, over the current resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. A group of Hebrews  come to Kiryat-Yearim under the guise of attending the festivals. Levite Musician Ronen ...