A BOOK CLUB wiki...
The place for your Stone Crossings book club photos, audio files, videos, and blog posts. Be serious or be fun. Just like you'd be at a book club in your home.
Author L.L. Barkat will be at Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference, March 14-18 2008, teaching two seminars on blogging for writers. Though the official release of Stone Crossings is April 1, copies will be available at the conference. Read Full Story
Click on the video screen, at the bottom right of this page, to hear an excerpt of Stone Crossings, read by L.L. from the back yard on a snowy day. Read Full Story
Come Saturday afternoon, when the preparation work is done, time to find a quiet place with delicate petals and long quiet, and settle into life-nurturing words. Words that prepare for the work of grace. Transformative words that will linger, percolate down to the hard places, soften with healing oil. Good, long-lasting words. Some books offer bullet points, sterile checklists, action plans. Well and good, even needful. Some books wax eloquently, poetic and lyrical, but leave us hungry for... Read Full Story
Thanks to Dave Zimmerman for this lyrical discussion of grace and its presence in Stone Crossings . Here's a small excerpt: " Barkat writes about grace in this book--not the ethereal, enigmatic grace that we celebrate with greeting cards and scented candles but the hard-fought grace that defies, subverts, judges and redeems the world on which its shadow falls." Read Full Story
Maybe it's because I negotiated to have my books available at the Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference . I'm not sure. But Stone Crossings is now available with on-line booksellers, even though it doesn't officially release until April 1. What fun. Read Full Story
Once in a while I write a post about a book I've been reading— only a book I really like, mind you. And when I do, I always wish I had everything I needed at my fingertips. The pictures, links to the author's blog, reviews by other people, whatever. It occurred to me that if someone really likes Stone Crossings and decides to write a post about it, he or she might appreciate having such a tool kit too. So here it is. For you who like tools. The Stone Crossings Blog Post Tool Kit. NOTE: some... Read Full Story
Tap, tap, tap. Hear that? It’s the sound of my pencil tapping on the keyboard as I wait for L.L. Barkat’s soon-to-be released memoir, Stone Crossings . Not only is L.L. a faithful blogging friend, she is a captivating writer. Don’t believe me? Sit with a few of her poetic prayers at Love Notes to Yahweh . You’ll linger … and wander back for more. I’ve been looking forward to L.L’s book ever since I was introduced to her work on her signature blog, Seedlings in Stone .
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Welcome to our "Stone Crossings" book club wiki. Just a few thoughts about what you might contribute: a photo of you reading Stone Crossings, a photo of Stone Crossings somewhere in your home or community, an audio file or video of you reading a favorite passage from Stone Crossings , your blog post about SC or other links to info about SC . We look forward to your creativity. Read Full Story
