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Terror on Planet Earth! I’ll have to admit that I had secret hopes for this kids’ book set up there on the surface of the moon. Through all of my reading over the years, I’ve been disproportionately more impressed with … Continue reading
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Anytime I come across a Corrie Ten Boom book, I feel like reading it might give me a swift, grandmotherly kick in the pants. This one is a bit different than most, because she’s writing about the End Times, as … Continue reading
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This short Scholastic biography of Helen Keller is about as simplistic as you can get when it comes to recording the life of an American icon. It’s clearly designed for elementary-aged kids: the conversations and “suspense” are light, the font … Continue reading
My brother has a taste for “older science fiction novels,” which includes a pretty broad range—-from the likes of Jules Verne to H.P. Lovecraft, Kurt Vonnegut, and C.S. Lewis, with a whole bunch of lesser-known authors in between. Because I … Continue reading
My pastor of 27 years is retiring this month, so I have been helping him clean out his office, and he’s given me a free-for-all run of his bookshelves, so I might be running through a number of “fundy” books … Continue reading
Perhaps I’m a glutton for punishment, but early this summer I opened up another novel by Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain. I did so for the promised plot, a deadly virus in the 1950s American Southwest that threatens to kill … Continue reading
