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A Home for the Heart (The Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister #8)

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In this eighth and final book in this series, Corrie is back in California after two long, adventurous years on the east coast. This book was very good, but parts of it were a bit boring. I liked the total effect of the book though. This book shows some very strong Christian morals upheld by Corrie (as usual!). This book, along with the other books in this series, shows that God must be first in our lives. Corrie learns to trust God first then to trust those around her that she loves dearly. Good morally-uplifting book!

Wonderful Book in a Series !!! Enjoyed it immencely !!! Would recommened to anyone of any age to read !!! Would buy again or another in this Series !!!

I can't believe I made it through the whole series. None of it was all that exciting but it was enough to keep me going through the books. This series should have ended with book seven and I thought that before reading book 8. The end of seven was so perfect, Corrie taking the train home and reading that Christopher loves her. But I guess everyone wants to know what happens next and have the happily ever after ending. The first chapter picks up immediately were book seven ends and is one gushy love letter after another. I really thought it should have started with chapter 2, Corrie arriving in Sacramento. Corrie makes it home and Christopher comes out a couple of months later. He has an unfortunate happening in Chicago that sets him back about a week. In the meantime, the letters are flowing back and forth. This was really hard to get through. One of Christopher's letters was six pages long. At any rate, Christopher has a novel idea for courting. Based on the fact that Jacob worked for Abraham for seven years before marrying Leah and then another seven years before marrying Rachel, Christopher feels all young couples considering marriage should do something similar. He thinks a young man should work alongside the girl's father for a year and likewise, she should work alongside his mother for a year. At the end of a year, the parents will know what type of person the future child-in-law really is and whether the marriage is a good idea. Christopher presents this to Pa Hollister who thinks it's unusual but goes along with it. The final arrangement is that Christopher spends a year working in the mine alongside Pa, Zack and Tad in exchange for room and board (staying in a bunkhouse added onto the barn). It's not spoiling anything to say that Christopher and Corrie marry at the end of the year. They had a three-month engagement. In none of that time did either of them think about the future. That drove me crazy. When they got married, Christopher had no job, no money and no house for them to live in. I supposed they would probably live in Almeda's house in town. But he still needs a job. He should have spent three days a week working in the mine for room and board and three days a week in town for a wage. I wouldn't let my daughter (as if I could stop her) marry a broke homeless person no matter what a good Christian he seemed to be. He was a hard worker but he still had no source of income. And just when you think your finished reading those long boring letters, they both decide they miss getting letters from each other so they start up writing again. Even though they see each other every single day.

Two other things bothered me.

1. Someone please tell the author there is no world shortage of commas. I got so tired of reading "Pa and Almeda and Becky and Tad and Zack" or some combination thereof. Not only is it hard to read it sounds like a first grader wrote it.

2. A person from Zack's days in the Pony Express rides into town looking for him. He stops at the Mine and Freight (now called Hollister Supply) and gets directions to the house from Corrie. Later Corrie says that Pa and Zack had quite a story to tell about this encounter. But we never hear it. It's never mentioned again. I wonder if the author forgot to finish that part of the story. Otherwise I see no reason for even including that, it was very random.

I really felt like this whole series could have been told in two longer books. For as many words as are used very little really happens.