Lucy S. R. Austen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Author. Editor. Lover of hot tea. Interested in almost everything. Full-length single-volume biography, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life, available now.

Lilias Trotter: Daring in the Desert
Irene Howat Irene Howat
#ElisabethElliot learned of #LiliasTrotter as a sophomore in college, and recommended her for the rest of her life. Elliot wrote her 1989 book *A Path Through Suffering* as a series of reflections on Trotter's work.https://t.co/q9lBL3sWPt
Paperback, 2016
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The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare Illustrated
G. K. Chesterton
@leahpfinn And has he tried G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories? (Or, for that matter, *The Man Who Was Thursday*?)
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Lawn Boy
Gary Paulsen
@greenleejw Has 11 year old read *Lawn Boy* [and sequel(s?)] by Gary Paulsen?
Paperback, 2009
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Mystery Mile
Margery Allingham
@leahpfinn He might like Margery Allingham's Mr. Campion. There aren't as many of them as there are Christies, but there are enough to keep him going for awhile! The very first one is The Crime at Black Dudley, but Campion hits his stride in the second, Mystery Mile.
Paperback, 2018
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Farmer Giles of Ham
J. R. R. Tolkien
Heavy spring rain falling, everything is green, green, there are fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, and we just finished reading Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham aloud.
Hardcover, 1999
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mistress Masham's Repose
T. H. White
@bdmcclay I love the little I've read of White (Once and Future King, Mistress Masham's Repose) and loved this review, so adding the biography to my list, stat. Thanks!
Paperback, 2017
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The Crime at Black Dudley
Margery Allingham
@leahpfinn He might like Margery Allingham's Mr. Campion. There aren't as many of them as there are Christies, but there are enough to keep him going for awhile! The very first one is The Crime at Black Dudley, but Campion hits his stride in the second, Mystery Mile.
Paperback, 2025
$31.97$15.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers
My beloved (cheap paperback) copy of Gaudy Night, with its layers of comments on post-it notes and arguments in the margins--has lost its back cover early in an umpteenth read-through. Time to get a rubber band to hold it together. https://t.co/rUZJVJ5Gtg
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Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity
Marva J. Dawn
Finding help this week in chapters on lament from Marva J. Dawn, Being Well When We're Ill, and @K__Mayfield, Attached to God, and in the daily Psalms selected by @biolau Lent Project. "O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?"
Paperback, 2008
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Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
Sarah Manguso
"In the slim book Ongoingness: The End of a Diary Sarah Manguso says, 'to write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.'" https://t.co/DG5dyuyWSx
Paperback, 2016
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