Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Brilliant Words to Grow By
Pam Malow-Isham · 2018
60/100
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A year's worth of daily words paired with quotes and Scripture is a genuinely useful structure for people who want a light devotional touchstone, and the 500-plus quoted authors give it real variety. But Balboa Press is a self-publishing imprint, not an editorial filter, and the life-coaching framing sits at the shallower end of the devotional spectrum. Solid for what it is; there are more theologically substantial daily devotionals in the same space.
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originality62
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age-fit82
human-eye58
Penny’s verdict60
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