The shoebox bible epub

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Have a card? Add it now to start borrowing from the collection. Bradley's mother left a true treasure for her son in the old Shoebox. Even the materials she wrote old cereal boxes, can labels, newsprint added immeasurable richness. I surely wish there were print copies available at reasonable prices so I could buy one to keep in my personal library, another to put in the public library where I work, and a couple more for gifts.

Feb 04, Ann Joseph added it. Obtained this rare book from a Canadian bookseller. No one in the states seems to have it. A glimpse into the sisters of his Flavia de Luce series obviously based on his own sisters and the effect of a lost parent on family life mimics his own situation. In many ways this must have been cathartic for the author and his humor gives a glimpse of how he came to terms with early loss.

A tribute to his strong mother and to his credit one of his early writings that acknowledged his debt to an upbringi Obtained this rare book from a Canadian bookseller.

A tribute to his strong mother and to his credit one of his early writings that acknowledged his debt to an upbringing that fostered his creativity and produced subsequent writings of exceptional quality. Jan 07, Winter Sophia Rose rated it it was amazing.

A Beautiful Read! Nov 05, Emily rated it liked it. Love, loyalty, faith, selflessness - these themes are common in literature, of course, and they are tenderly handled in this book. Being a fan of the Flavia deLuce novels, I was interested to read this book.

My overall rating is 3 stars, but I would give it 5 for inspiration - even to the point that I now consider hand-writing passages of scripture on mementos of my life, too. But it is not exactly what I was expecting, somehow, and I am a bit disappointed.

Maybe that is the nature of real life Love, loyalty, faith, selflessness - these themes are common in literature, of course, and they are tenderly handled in this book.

Maybe that is the nature of real life - it is not exactly what we expect and it is sometimes disappointing. Nevertheless, this book and, happily, my life has real joy in it, too. Just started this little-known gem from the author of the Flavia deLuce series. If I ever made New Year Resolutions, this would be a good one.

Anyway, I hope the book is good. After: Well, that was underwhelming. What I thought was a short novel was actually a memoir. Maybe it would have been bette Just started this little-known gem from the author of the Flavia deLuce series. Maybe it would have been better if I had known what it was going into it. My fault. Jun 30, Miss Wilson rated it really liked it Shelves: biography-autobiography. A touching recollection of childhood illness, smart older sisters, a grieving yet incessantly hopeful mother and an absent father.

I particularly enjoyed reading the author's description of the day his father left. What was the use of A touching recollection of childhood illness, smart older sisters, a grieving yet incessantly hopeful mother and an absent father. What was the use of her lifetime of patient waiting, of her boundless and never-ending faith?

May 09, Rebecca rated it it was amazing. I wanted to read this book because it is the memoir of one of my favorite authors. He is telling us his story, but it is, in many ways, more his mother's story. When he was a child he found a shoe box under the floor boards of his mother's room.

The box was full of scraps of paper with scriptures written on them, in his mother's hand. He never asked about the box, but when his mom died many years later, the box came into his life again. These facts are the foundation of the story he tells about I wanted to read this book because it is the memoir of one of my favorite authors. These facts are the foundation of the story he tells about his life, and his mother's life.

I found it very interesting, and a little sad. Apr 03, Tamhack rated it liked it. At first it was hard to get into the book and see where it was going but it is well worth seeing it to the end. It is the story of life's journey through heartbreak and when life doesn't end up picture perfect or what we picture it should be and how to still have hope through it all.

It is a story of reconciliation. At the time, he could make little sense of the ragtag things he found inside: cigarette packages, soup can labels, handbills, calendars, paper bags, pie boxes—any scrap of paper upon which his mother could copy out, in her old-fashioned handwriting, what seemed to be no more than unrelated snippets of Scripture. He only knew that the box, which he would later come to think of as the Shoebox Bible, had something to do with the fact that his father had run away from home.

Many years would pass, and his mother would be on her deathbed before he would once again hold this treasure in his hands. And only then would he put together the pieces of the puzzle, and learn the complete truth. Beautifully and lovingly told, The Shoebox Bible is a wonderful memoir of a precocious family who manage to live and love despite the absence of their father. Interspersed with heartbreaking quotations from the Old and New Testaments, this sad, funny, and above all inspiring story will appeal to readers who fell in love with such inspirational books as Tuesdays with Morrie and Mister God, This Is Anna.

When I was older, I would learn that occasions accompanied by pain are often fixed fast in the memory like snapshots, but at the time, I was barely two years old, and my father had just run away from home. Yet other children - born in awe of the roaring torrents of their own arteries, the wide deserts of their skins, the uncharted forests of their silken hair, and the craggy mountains of their own knees, knuckles, and toes - sense instinctively from birth that the Creator is within, that in the hidden depths of movement lies the secret existence.

No such child, watching wonder a ladybug trudging across a sun warmed forearm would ever question the presence of a higher and unseen authority: one who knows all the answers. Born blessed, these happy souls never, ever - not for the fractional part of a second - tire of the spectacle of thoughts and inspirations that dance and play across their minds like lightning in a summer sky, or of ideas they glimpse, like the sudden flashing of silvery fins, just beneath the surface of their own debts.

They are certain that God id not only "out there" but also "in here. So it is in the painter's world and so it is in the world of children. We are tinted by the rooms in which we have lived and learned when we were young, tinted by the shades of those who were there before us and, I know believe, by those who will sing in them after we are gone.

And our own hymns of childhood will still be echoing in their ears long after we have once again become part of the lead and the paint and the glass and the light. Her hollow eyes and sunken cheeks are black caves, and her shriveled hands are like the talons of an eagle. This is the witch who gave Snow White the apple, but something has gone dreadfully wrong with her.

His analogy of the pencil eraser Feb 26, Lou rated it it was amazing. As tho I read of my mother's death. Tho my father never physically left her, he sureky did in spirit I cannot help to believe it would have been a better world had my mother lived and my father departed.

I have no shoebox. This book is incredibly hard to rate. On the one hand, it is heart-wrenchingly tender, But then it had parts that seemed like rabbit-holes. Relevance of many of the anecdotes were not clear until much later in the story.

This book felt like a peek into a soft, hardship memory of the author's youth. There are religious aspects and WWII references. I am glad that I read this novel, But I am reluctant to recommend it.

Mar 29, Peggy Jeffcoat rated it really liked it. This is a lovely memoir by the author of the Flavia de Luce series and other books. He writes of his early childhood which included his mother and sisters. The sisters remind me of Flavia's sisters and I believe they be an inspiration for the fictional de Luce sisters. Bradley recounts the finding of the shoebox where his mother stored her writings and how it impacted his life.

What a beautiful, heart-filling story! When I got to the end I found tears were pouring down my face. I lost my mother last year - and it feels like this book came into my life at the exactly right time for me.

I found comfort and healing in its pages. Books help us realize we're not alone, don't they? Thank you, Alan Bradley, for sharing this story with us. Jan 02, Gerry rated it liked it.

I love the Flavia De Luce series. I've probably spelled that badly This is a book about Bradley who is the author. His mother kept a box of writing which is what got her through a terrible time of life. Not unlike a journal, she copied scripture or poetry and saved it in a shoe box.

Bradley became the keeper of the box and through it came to better understand his own life. Jun 30, Katra rated it it was amazing. This is one of the most beautiful, tender, and ultimately uplifting books that I've read in years. I borrowed it from our library which had some difficulty finding it for me. Having read it, I'd love my own copy to highlight and note. However, it seems nearly impossible to get your hands on one.

If you can, do. You won't regret it, but have the tissues ready. Readers also enjoyed. Biography Memoir.