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Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger (November 2019)

 

 



Book Choice for November 2019

Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger

Chosen by Melissa Sparks

Summary...

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners--and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage--in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.  

Author's Website:
https://gailcarriger.com/books/etiquette-espionage/
https://gailcarriger.com/series/the-finishing-school/

Other Cool Websites About the Book:
https://gailcarriger.fandom.com/wiki/Etiquette_%26_Espionage
https://www.tor.com/2013/01/31/etiquette-a-espionage-excerpt/
https://media.btsb.com/TitleLessonPlans/2403.pdf

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Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist (October 2019)

Book Choice for October 2019

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist

Chosen by Chelsea Barker

Summary....

LIVE A LIFE OF MEANING AND CONNECTION
Instead of pushing for perfection

A few years ago, I found myself exhausted and isolated, my soul and body sick. I was tired of being tired, burned out on busy. And, it seemed almost everyone I talked with was in the same boat: longing for connection, meaning, depth, but settling for busy.

I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, neighbor, writer, and I know all too well that settling feeling. But over the course of the last few years, I’ve learned a way to live, marked by grace, love, rest, and play. And it’s changing everything.

Present Over Perfect is an invitation to this journey that changed my life. I’ll walk this path with you, a path away from frantic pushing and proving, and toward your essential self, the one you were created to be before you began proving and earning for your worth.

Written in Shauna’s warm and vulnerable style, this collection of essays focuses on the most important transformation in her life, and maybe yours too: leaving behind busyness and frantic living and rediscovering the person you were made to be. Present Over Perfect is a hand reaching out, pulling you free from the constant pressure to perform faster, push harder, and produce more, all while maintaining an exhausting image of perfection.

Shauna offers an honest account of what led her to begin this journey, and a compelling vision for an entirely new way to live: soaked in grace, rest, silence, simplicity, prayer, and connection with the people that matter most to us.

In these pages, you’ll be invited to consider the landscape of your own life, and what it might look like to leave behind the pressure to be perfect and begin the life-changing practice of simply being present, in the middle of the mess and the ordinariness of life.  


Author's Website:
https://www.shaunaniequist.com/

Other Cool Websites About The Book:
https://jodiemccarthy.com/2017/02/27/present-over-perfect-book-club-embrace-fun/
https://www.oasischurchperth.com/present-over-perfect-summer-book-club-session-1/
https://bloguettes.com/bloguettes-book-club-present-over-perfect/
http://www.elainefraser.co/blog/sea-change/

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