Tome Thursday: When Hope Springs New

 

Hello everyone!

 

It's a one last time kind of thing for the Canadian north, as we take a look at the fourth book in Janette Oke's saga this week.

 

Now granted, there ARE two more, but as I said in a previous blog post, I won't be reviewing them for this blog because I never enjoyed them all that much in the first place since the characters didn't grab me quite so well as Elizabeth and Wynn.

 

Jack and Elizabeth filled that spot on the television show, but even that's changed somewhat now.

 

But I digress!

 

We've been trudging through the wilderness for the past few books, so it's really high time to find out just how Elizabeth's story concludes.

 

Does the fashionable teacher from Toronto manage to completely overcome her own prejudices and become the woman Wynn could see was a possibility when he fell in love with her? And do they find happiness in the north?

 

All that, and more, will be answered in When Hope Springs New.

 

Tome Thursday: When Calls the Heart

 

Hello everyone!

 

In response to this last Sunday's season finale of the Hallmark channel hit series, When Calls the Heart (which I have reviewed frequently enough on this blog, actually, and the current ending of which I'm not entirely happy with), I decided I had to go back and give the original book another re-read, as I hadn't done it in a while.

 

For those of you who don't know, this is a series of Christian books about a schoolteacher in the Canadian West around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, who meets and falls in love with a member of the Royal North West Mounted Police.

 

That was its title at the time, though nowadays they are called Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

 

I first found the books because I was looking for the author's original series, Love Comes Softly, but ended up getting the others instead, because, Canada.

 

And since for some reason Hallmark has decided to deviate so strongly away from the original premise, it felt really good to go back in and remind myself why I fell in love with the story in the first place.

 

After all, a teacher and a Mountie on the frontier sounds like an adventure, doesn't it?

 

When Calls the Heart has that and a whole lot more.

 

Tome Thursday: Where Courage Calls

Hello everyone!

I absolutely need something to distract myself with tonight as I have just finished watching the latest episode of Arrow and let me tell you - that show knows exactly how to break my heart every single time it appears. There has to be a reason why it's the most prominent hero show on TV at the moment, right? Right.

Anyway.

I was reminded of this book because I caught something on the internet from the TV show itself, and then went back through my notes to see whether or not I'd actually ever read this or if I have yet to read it.

Luckily, I have!

It's the first book from Janette Oke's continuation to the Canadian West series, titled Return to the Canadian West, of course, and it's called Where Courage Calls!