![]() Sentences with too many dashes as the heroine frequently stammers over her words. Sure, the book has got some of the common things I’ve never been fond of in these novels. ![]() The book spoke to me on a number of levels when I read it years ago, witnessing the obstacles a young woman faces when she takes a different path than people expect. It’s the first in one of my all-time favorite series, Women of the West, by one of my all-time favorite authors. This is at least the third time I’ve read this novel. However, with no potential husband in sight, Emily decides what’s nearly unthinkable: she’ll head out to open a church on her own in The Calling of Emily Evans, a novel by author Janette Oke. Desiring to be a wife and mother someday, she imagines she’ll be ministering alongside a preaching husband. Prairie settlements are in need of mission workers for local churches, and in Bible school, Emily responds to the call. ![]() The Calling of Emily Evans by Janette Oke ![]() I tend to rate books not according to how “perfect” they are, seem to be, or are said to be in general but rather to how perfect they are to me. ![]()
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