Haven Kimmel

#178 ~ First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria

First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life by Eve Brown-Waite I enjoy reading memoirs from time to time. It’s a nice break from the norm and, typically, the person writing the memoir has had an eventful, if not sad, [...]

Filed Under: book review, female author, Memoir, non-fiction Tagged With: Africa, Ecuador, Eve Brown-Waite, First Comes Love Then Comes Malaria, Haven Kimmel, Jeannette Wall, Malaria, Peace Corps, The Glass Castle, Uganda

Mailbox Monday ~ 3.2.09

4 Mar By Jennifer 7 Comments

I’m sorry to be late this week, but I spent a good part of yesterday compiling the entries for my Bookmark It contest for Bookroom Reviews’ Book Giveaway Carnival. I didn’t even have time to enter any contests myself. It’s a good problem to have, though. If you haven’t entered my contest, please do. [...]

Filed Under: Mailbox Monday Tagged With: Behold Here's Poison, From Harvey River, Georgette Heyer, Haven Kimmel, Jeffrey Ford, Lorna Goodison, Pom Wonderful, Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business, The Shadow Year, The Unfinished Clue, The Used World

#76 ~ Trespassers will be Baptized

3 Jun By Literate Housewife 4 Comments

Trespassers Will Be Baptized: The Unordained Memoir of a Preacher’s Daughter by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock Trespassers will be Baptized tells the story of Elizabeth Emerson Hancock’s early childhood as the oldest daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher living in Kentucky. Miss Em was a precocious little girl who grew up certain that she knew exactly [...]

Filed Under: Books, Childhood Memories, Family, Life, Memoir, Religion Tagged With: A Girl Named Zippy, Childhood Memories, Elizabeth Emerson Hancock, growing up in Kentucky, Guess jeans, Haven Kimmel, Memoir, oldest child, preacher's children, Southern Baptist, Trespassers will be Baptized

#01 ~ A Girl Named Zippy

17 Jan By Literate Housewife 3 Comments

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana by Haven Kimmel This is a memoir of Haven’s early childhood in a small Indiana town. I was originally interested in the book because of the silly looking baby on the cover. Turns out that silly looking baby was the author. She was born small [...]

Filed Under: book review, female author, Memoir Tagged With: A Girl Named Zippy, growing up in the Midwest, gypsy, Haven Kimmel, Pippi Longstocking, Quaker