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Meredith Hinds is a Catholic wife and mom who moonlights as a freelance writer and editor. Her first project for children was A Saint A Day, a devotional published by Tommy Nelson. She also wrote Eucharistic Saints, a collection of stories about 25 Saints' love for the Eucharist, published by TAN, and is currently writing another round of Saint bios for teens with YDisciple. Meredith is having her sixth baby in September and runs a Substack newsletter called Still Today, which is essentially a mom blog, but Kelsie Hartley thinks that it's one of the funniest things on Substack, and you should definitely subscribe to it. For the purpose of our discussion today she loves our current Book Club Pick, Everything Sad is Untrue.

Meredith’s Top 5

* Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

* The Baronet’s Song by George MacDonald

* Heidi by Joanna Spyri

* Pinocchio by Carlo

* Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Other Books and Things

Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Dr. Dolittle Series

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

The Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne (and House at Pooh Corner)…actually just buy the whole set! Or here are the picture books!

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Flannery O’Connor Short Stories

Anne of Green Gables Series by L.M. Montgomery

An example of Meredith’s hilarious acronyms (NFP article)

Haley Baumeister’s Substack…Life Considered

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Arabian Nights

Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes

Until next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.

What We’re Reading Now/Next:

July

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

August

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

September

Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter

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