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After surprising even myself by finally finishing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (on my third-or-so attempt), I immediately picked up its sequel, because my brain was in the mood for some stupidity. I got what I needed, and then … Continue reading
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Blackford Oakes, Book 4 I’m kind of a sucker for Soviet-era spy novels (as long as they’re not 6,000 pages long like most of John Le’Carre‘s books). I recently came upon this book by William F. Buckley and found the … Continue reading
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While Catch Me If You Can is one of my all-time favorite true-crime films, Frank W. Abagnale’s sincerity makes his book far more human, not merely a big-name blockbuster. Continue reading
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As we near December, the kids and I are trying to hurry up our reading to see if we can finish a good dozen of Roald Dahl books this year. We’re on pace to make it, I think, though the … Continue reading
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Whenever I recognize that my prayer life isn’t what it ought to be, I tend to turn to books on prayer that can help reignite it. Honestly, my prayer life is never what it ought to be, but I don’t … Continue reading
As we’ve settled into a new home during these COVID years, I’ve unpacked nearly all of the boxes of books I’ve had in storage. They’re now on the shelves, but most of them remain as unread as ever. In my … Continue reading
I’ve never heard of this series by Abbeville before, but I can imagine its period of popularity. For decades, encyclopedias had been all the rage, as door-to-door salesmen convinced housewives that their kids would be total dolts without having this … Continue reading
As one of my small groups has been discussing questions of ethics, we’ve been using articles from Wayne Grudem’s Christian Ethics as a starting point for discussion. While that book is nice and helpful and does offer a host of … Continue reading
Every once in a while, I come across a book that I would never otherwise pick up. One day when I was digging through a cardboard box of film negatives and 1970s postcards in a Chinese flea market, I made … Continue reading
The Jason Bourne fever has died down a lot over the past few years, but it wasn’t too long ago when Matt Damon’s character—the revised version Robert Ludlum’s original—was all the rage. It was during those years that I tentatively … Continue reading
