This is the sentence that convinced me that I was holding a must-read book. “Do I want my headstone to read, ‘Well, on the days she was nice she was really nice. But on the days she wasn’t, rest assured, hell hath no fury like the woman who lies beneath the ground right here’?” I… [ read more ]

Best Book on Motherhood I’ve Read. Maybe Ever. Sometimes I pick up a book because the title sounds good. Sometimes because someone I respect has endorsed it. Sometimes because people I know have read it and recommended it. Sometimes all three. The title Desperate – Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe caught my… [ read more ]

One of my personal rules of writing book reviews is No Spoilers – so be prepared for this review to send you straight to your local bookstore! Lynette Eason wraps up the Deadly Reunions series with When A Secret Kills and, well, at the risk of sounding cliche… It starts with a bang. (Sorry, that’s all I… [ read more ]

April is National Poetry Month . Hop on over to The Write Conversation  for my thoughts on poetry…and why writers should read it! Grace and peace, Lynn

If you’ve followed Out of the Boat for any length of time, you know that I have a serious addiction…to books! It began when I was quite young, was encouraged by my family, and as an adult, I’ve never attempted to get over it. It gets me in trouble occasionally…say when I stay up until… [ read more ]

Every now and then I come to a place where I need to step away from books about writing and spend some time with books about living. The crazy thing is that once I owned up to the fact that “I AM A WRITER” I found that just about everything I read has a writing… [ read more ]

A few months ago, I introduced you to my friend Emily when she reviewed Life with Lily by Suzanne Woods Fisher and Mary Ann Kinsinger . Emily is a fantastic writer and a great lover of books and I was thrilled when she agreed to come back and review the second book in The Adventures of Lily Lapp series for us. Here’s a little info about A New Home for Lily: Lily Lapp is moving with her family to Pennsylvania to… [ read more ]

It’s the first Thursday of February, so I’m over at The Write Conversation today, talking about Rumors of Water by L.L. Barkat . Come join the conversation!

One of the things Irene Hannon does so well is to give us a peek into the world of different types of law enforcement. In her new “Private Justice” series, she’s taken us into the world of private investigators. As it turns out, they aren’t all 100 pounds overweight, kicked back behind a massive desk, and puffing on… [ read more ]

As I’ve been mulling over the idea of how big God is and the miracle it is that He became flesh, I’ve also been thinking about how often God does things in ways that are both unexpected and incomprehensible. I’m wondering how often I don’t see God’s hand because what’s happening doesn’t make sense to me. I’m… [ read more ]