Eternal Life: A New Vision By John Shelby Spong #Year2025BookChallenge #ReadBabyRead #booksky #Book58

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Eternal Life: A New Vision by John Shelby Spong
The author avers that by seeking God within, by living each day to its fullest, we will come to understand how we live eternally.

The Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart The Crystal Cave The Hollow Hills The Last Enchantment The Wicked Day The Prince and the Pilgrim? #Year2025BookChallenge #ReadBabyRead #SeriesSaturday #booksky #Book58

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The Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart
A most magical retelling of the court of Camelot. When I first read it, I only knew it as a trilogy and later discovered The Wicked Day; The Prince and the Pilgrim hardly seems to belong.

The best way to start this dreary, January week - the first #MarSocSciBookClub of 2025 💙

Huge thanks to these smiling faces for keeping me company through #Book58

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Many of the characters are unlikeable, and the realities of Irish history are hard to read in this story. We drew similarities with ongoing conflicts, migration, challenges facing refugees across the globe - and how in many cases, nothing has changed.

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For those of us who knew little about this time in Irish history, Star of the Sea gave us a valuable insight into what was happening at the time - this is not a story of redemption, but one that is bleak, dark and hard.

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Drawing on real excerpts from the time, the novel explores the interconnected stories of a number of passengers, from the land-owning Merridiths to the impoverished Mary Duane, who is escaping famine ridden Ireland for a new home.

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We have kick-started our #MarSocSciBookClub sessions for 2025! This month's read was a bit of a heavy going one for January - #StaroftheSea focuses on the year 1847, taking place on an Irish famine ship bound for New York.

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