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I’m back in love with short stories. I’ve never really fallen out of love with them, of course, but too many other books have taken their place. There’s only so much time to read. With my habit of finding odd … Continue reading
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It’s not every day I read a watercolor-illustrated by book by (what I can only assume was) an Irish-Catholic hippy! But these are weird days, so here I am. I came across this book in another Little Free Library. I … Continue reading
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After finishing the entertaining fairytale, A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears, I wanted to read something similar to my kids (ages 11, 12), yet something with some spiritual undertones. This allegory from the ’70s is exactly that, though … Continue reading
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Newberry Medal Winner: 1976 As my family persistently seeks new book series to read together, we took the adventurous step of trying out some Newberry winners. I have about 60 of them on my book shelves (well, now they’re all … Continue reading
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A Christian reviews my favorite Roald Dahl novel, Danny the Champion of the World (1975). Continue reading
Through the first quarter of this year, I taught an Old Testament Survey course at my church for the first time in my ministry. While I had done chronological overviews of the Old Testament before (and several New Testament Surveys), … Continue reading
My children and I have recently been enjoying a selection of short novels by Clyde Robert Bulla, so it’s no surprise that we came to and thoroughly enjoyed this, our most recent read. Since all the Bulla books we’d read … Continue reading
“A Novel of Japan” – The First Novel in The Asian Saga I have long been intrigued by the mere thought of James Calvell‘s “Asian Saga”, a collection of tomes only loosely connected that follow the history of certain regions … Continue reading
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Pitt quickly fell silent….He had come close to falling out of character. He knew now that if there was a slight thread of hope for escape, it lay in his continued masquerade as one of the gay boys. (Chapter 15) … Continue reading
The railway was a fictor’s bazaar, in which anyone with the patience could carry away a memory to pore over in privacy. The memories were inconclusive, but an ending, as in the best fiction, was always implied. (70) I maintain … Continue reading
