The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine What initially drew me to The Billionaire’s Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace was more the genre—“the biography of things,” as I like to call it—than the subject matter itself. While I’m virtually illiterate … Continue reading
Have you ever tried jumping into a new series midstream, only to find that you’ve got no idea what’s going on and you have zero background information to help you even to venture a guess? That’s how you would most … Continue reading
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Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream To be candid, I avoided this book when it first came out simply due to the hype it was receiving right out of the gates. To me, it seemed like just another … Continue reading
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Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip P. Pan (2008) By almost any measure, the country’s last twenty-five years have been the best in its five-thousand-year history. But the Chinese have not … Continue reading
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Why The Chinese Don’t Count Calories: 15 Secrets from a 3,000-Year-Old Food Culture by Lorraine Clissold (2008) The fundamental difference between the way people eat in China and in the West is one of attitude…The Chinese focus on making food … Continue reading
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“It’s unhealthy when you no longer seek time alone for the sake of recharging your batteries but instead seek it as a means of escape.” (37) I conveniently found this book at a thrift store while I was traveling away … Continue reading
Surveying the Evidence for the Truth of Christianity Encyclopedias have been hard sells lately with short-form information on all topics scattered across the web. While Wikipedia cannot be fully trusted, many free sites can, making encyclopedias and other article-based dictionaries nearly obsolete. Nevertheless, … Continue reading
Only because I mentioned it in my review of Treasure of Khan, I figured I should offer a quick review of Dirk Pitt adventure #20, Arctic Drift. The feature characters played out to my liking, namely, Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino taking … Continue reading
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A Christian book review of the youth-fantasy adventure novel The Shield by Dawn L. Watkins (2008), prequel to The Medallion (1985) Continue reading
Before ever having read The Prince’s Poison Cup, I had enjoyed yet another allegory by the same author-illustrator team of R.C Sproul and Justin Gerard, a book titled The Priest with Dirty Clothes. I was so amazed at the quality … Continue reading
