Words on Wednesday: More from the Summer Reading List

  Left out a few books last week, and i really enjoyed them.
  These
first two, i found through the special needs book club:

  Kidnapped  i'm not sure how much our members got it.  There's lots of Scots dialect,  and, though the adventures are riveting, between the dialect and great difference from our present world, it was kinda slow going.  It's very well worth the effort, though.
This one is hardly ever called David Balfour 1, as Goodreads gives for an alternate title.  However, there is a David Balfour 2: 
  Catriona begins where Kidnapped ends, as in the very next minute. Like the original story, this one is told in first person, by David. However, Kidnapped seems to be a tale told shortly after David's experiences, and this one is definitely a reminiscence.  It's a "how I met your mother" story. The adventures are similar to those in the first book (countryside with Alan, kidnapped again). David persists in trying to give his testimony at the trial for the murder that's part of the first book.

  The Lighthouse Library Series
  These are light, "cozy" mysteries.  Lots of fun, and not too hard to put down when i need to (something i have trouble with).  i've read books 1-3, have 5 on order, and will try to get book 4 when i can.

  The Heart of a King Subtitled The Loves of King Solomon, it's a Biblical novel by Jill Eileen Smith,      xxApparently these stories have also been issued as separate novels.  This one does kinda read as separate novels, as each woman is featured for a part of the story, then she passes into the background.
  i read it uncritically and enjoyed it, but afterward i found myself getting mad at Solomon.  His first wife longed for him to share his heart with her, but he believed he couldn't because she wasn't of his rank - she was ONLY a princess, a king's daughter.  Later, when he does share his heart with the queen of Sheba, who is of his rank, he wants her to abandon her own "kingdom" and stay in Jerusalem to reign by his side.  He was asking her to give up the very thing that made him consider her his equal!

You might want to look at this link: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/ray-ortlund/rejoice-in-the-wife-of-your-youth-2/

i passed the book on to one of the women in my Bible study.She hasn't read Biblical fiction before and enjoyed it also.  She said it helped her picture what was happening in the events the Scripture covers in a few sentences.