The Oak Leaves

I mostly enjoyed this book, even though I am not the target market. This is a inspirational/Christian novel - I only came by it because I met the author, Maureen Lang, at a conference, and she's a super nice person. I put off reading it for a while because I was afraid it would be like Christian pop......more

Where I got the book: free on Kindle at publisher's discretion. Maureen is a friend in real life. This inspirational novel has an alternating-chapter two-story structure, the linking factor being the genetic ties between the two female protagonists, Talie in the modern day and Cosima in the 19th cent......more

I read the first chapter of this book online several weeks ago, and was finally able to get it from inter-library loan this past week. I started the book last night, and could not put it down. I did sleep, but once I woke up this morning, I did not even get on my computer. I just read, stopped to ma......more

I just finished this last night. I should mention I picked it up only four days ago. Though I read it in an accumulation of probably less than two days. Crying kept causing a pause - to push book back and gather myself and utter some prayers and confessions and - it was rich and lovely. I was swept......more

This story weaves together two time periods - Regency England and modern day Chicago. Talie Ingram finds an old journal that belong to her great great great grandmother Cosima Escott. While reading through it, Talie discovers a family "curse"; children born with what was called in those days "feeble......more