Exceedingly Mundane

I thought I would post a quick review of a really good Christian fiction book I completed late last night. I am also happy to report that this book finishes out the books I chose in January for the “What’s in a Name” challenge that I set out to read in 2008. You can see my original post and what books I read here (along with when I read each book). Thanks to Annie for hosting this challenge, I had a really good time choosing and reading these books 🙂

Here’s the quick review I wrote up at GoodReads about this book, Julia’s Hope:

Julias Hope by Leisha Kelly

rating: 5 of 5 stars
First in the Wortham Family series by new-to-me author Leisha Kelly. This is good old-fashioned Christian fiction at its best, at least for me. Sweet, charming, quaint, old-fashioned, simple, heart-warming. No action, just lots of details about life and faith.

The premise – the Wortham Family (father Samuel, mother Julia, children Robert and Sarah) have lost everything in the Great Depression, including their home in Harrisburg PA and their entire life savings. They leave with the barest of essentials in a bag, and try to reach a cousin in Illinois, with the promise of a job in a factory. They hitchhike, sleep in churches, eat in soup kitchens, and finally take refuge one stormy night in an old farmhouse that seems abandoned. Julia immediately is drawn to the farmhouse and land, and the hope of what they could build there. But without a dime to their name, how can they convince the owner to let them live there and work the land? Well, since this is wonderful old-fashioned fiction, the owner is, of course, an 80-something widow lady named Emma, who is having health problems and cannot remain on her beloved farm as she wants and hopes for. Easy solution, yes, but not everyone is happy to have strangers come in and start “taking advantage” of sweet Emma.

There’s 2 more in this series that I plan to read, and I really think I’ll enjoy them as much as this one. Great read, if you like this kind of story.

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