Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews

When times get hard, people often take a break from their lives so that they can rest and refresh. They go on a trip, go for a run or a hike...

When I first started reading today's book, I was sure that it was going to be depressing. A story about a young person who is cared for...

Everyone has days when they feel blue and despondent. Things are not going well for some reason or another, and the future looks far from ro...

For the last few weeks I have felt as if the world really is struggling to stay 'upright.' Everywhere I look I see news about hurri...

Every year Americans experience natural disasters. There are floods, wild fires, earthquakes, storms, hurricanes, and landslides. Homes, bu...

The events in Charlottesville last weekend left many people feeling very angry, upset, and discouraged. How, they ask, is it possible that t...

Losing someone or something that you love is never easy. In today's Book of Hope you will meet a little girl whose favorite tree gets si...

In today's Books of Hope title you will meet a character whose life is quite miserable and hopeless. In her world people like her are r...

When I began to read today's Book of Hope I was appalled by the suffering that the main character, a child, was subjected to. He was liv...

On Monday of this week, everything seemed to go wrong, and by the time the day started to draw to a close I was feeling stressed, grumpy, an...

Sometimes, when our dreams seem hopelessly out of reach, the best thing to do is to listen to stories about people who have kept on trying,...

I have said it before and I will say it again: these are trying times. For the most part the news is full of stories about loss, suffering, ...

There are many things that, when they take over our lives, take away our ability to hope. One of these things is anger. Anger is an ugly, bu...

Some people think that the only way to really make other people happy, the only way to make a difference and give them hope, is to do someth...

I am often inspired when I read or hear true stories about people who have done things to make the world a better place. They don't ha...

Many of us are prone to seeing our world through grey-tinted spectacles. I know that I have a tendency to do this. I see only the problems a...

Often we give up hope because we believe that our dreams cannot possibly come true. They are unrealistic and unattainable, we think as we se...

One of the things I love about books is the way in which stories can uplift us. A happy ending makes us feel that good things can happen in ...

Have you ever noticed how many You Can't and You Shouldn't people are out there? There are a lot of them. They are the ones who tell...

Sometimes life gives us so many knocks that we give up hoping that good things can happen. Our cynical outlook protects us from being disapp...