Book-Reviews
Sharing The Peace Of God & God's Perfection
One of my favorite parts of my spiritual practices for starting each day is reading from an assortment of inspirational and spiritual books. I keep a stack of them next to my bed. Three of the books that I make it a point to read from every morning are:
* A Deep Breath of Life by [...]
Samuel Blankson Books Provide Sound Financial Advice!
One of the best and most successful self-made entrepreneurs, Samuel Blankson, pulls no punches when it comes to helping you successfully Conquer Your Debt, Achieve Financial Prowess, Develop Cunning Business Investment Skills, and MOTIVATING YOU to reach your goals and your dreams. The best advice for getting started is to get your hands on all [...]
King Bartholomew and the Jester's Riddle - Review
King Bartholomew and the Jester’s Riddle by Pina Mastromonaco is a wonderful, fun book with a humor level perfect for children aged four to eight. Entertaining riddles entice readers to try to guess the answer while enjoying the tale.
Childlike King Bartholomew is obsessed with toys and solving riddles. The chubby, balding King learns to balance [...]
C. S. Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” is a sequel to “Prince Caspian”, taking place a few years after the events in the prior book. It is structured around a sea voyage of young King Caspian to the easternmost reaches of his realm.
Once again, magic pulls Edmund and Lucy into the world of Narnia, though this [...]
Erasure and the Othering of Texts
Percival Everett’s Erasure takes a look at how racism affects various aspects of our lives that we may be unaware of. An excellent example of this is when Ellison ventures into the bookstore to look for his novel only to realize that they are in the Africa-American literature section. A place, as he points out, [...]
Join Me, by Danny Wallace - I Laughed, I Cried, I Joined
Danny Wallace is an absolute legend. Not only did he stand up for what he believed in while paying a solemn tribute to his late uncle Gallus, but he also managed to write a witty, first-hand account of his boyish project to boot.
After attending uncle Gallus’ funeral, Danny is spurred on to finish creating [...]
On the Shelf-A Book Review
This review of books is a little overdue but has come to fruition as a result of three convergent but independent factors: space, time and knowledge. Space, or rather the lack of it, is a direct consequence of sharing my home with four other people who strangely confine their books to the available shelving.
My children [...]
Media Training 101: A Guide to Meeting the Press - Book Review
When being interviewed by media, it is tempting to do a `brain dump,’ and give them as much information as you can. This can backfire, though. Faced with an information overload, the journalist has to pick-and-choose through all the data to construct her story. She probably has room only for a few of your points, [...]
Western Book Reviews: Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather
It ain’t necessarily an easy gig, writing western history. There’s just so much cultural freight behind the genre, so much expectation. Unless you’re Bernard de Voto, how do you make an appeal to the general market without losing the respect of your peers? Unless you’re Wallace Stegner, how do you indulge the professorial without seeing [...]
Bead on Trouble by Barbara Burnett Smith - Book Review
I just finished reading Bead on Trouble by Barbara Burnett Smith, a mystery novel set among beaders (makers of bead jewelry) in Central Texas.
First of all, let me say how amazed I was at the fragmentation of the mystery novel market. Of course I was aware of standard genres, such as the police procedural or [...]