Adam Shields There were two significant announcements in the ebook world yesterday. Barnes and Noble announced a new Nook Lite (a wifi only reader) for $149 and a lower price for their regular Nook for $199. There was also a software upgrade for the regular Nook. Both are available now with free shipping. Amazon countered with a … Read more
This is the second of Scott Nicolson’s books I have read (my review of Skull Ring). The Red Church is a similarly creepy book. The story centers around a red church that has been abandoned. The rural community says it is haunted by the ghost of a preacher that was hung by his congregation for … Read more
I have followed the debate over the Emerging church for quite a while. In general I have agreed with many of the criticisms that the Emerging church has had with the traditional church, but I have not always agreed with the resulting prescriptions of where to go after the criticism. Jim Belcher, it seems, wrote … Read more
Update: This is a picture of my kindle in a hot tub. I used it over several days and left it floating once for quite a while. No water in the case. The power button issue discussed below is a very big and very real pain. But if you want a floating/waterproof kindle case, this … Read more
I am up (it is 4 AM) to fly out to my 17th Guy’s Trip. These are about annual trips that 6 of us guys from college take to re-connect with one another an spend some time decompressing. My netbook crashed last night so I cannot type up a few posts on my flight out. … Read more
In many ways I am of the mind that this book probably did not need to be written. It is not that I do not think that we pay enough attention to Christ. But that I am not sure that another book about Christ and the problem of not paying attention to Christ really will … Read more
The Nearest Exit is the follow up book after The Tourist. I read The Tourist early in 2009 soon after it came out but before I started reviewing books here. I rated it as one of my top fiction books last year. These are both spy books. They are post 9/11 spy books, so they … Read more
The Never War is the third in the Pendragon series (not the Steven Lawhead Pendragon Series). I liked the first book (it was free on Audible) and was pretty blah about the second. I would have stopped after the second, but there was a sale and it was only $5 and you know how … Read more
I am a little over half way through my first Overdrive Audiobook. Like my previous review of NetLibrary. Overdrive is a system that your local library system must subscribe to. Luckily I seem to have a progressive library system because they work with both Overdrive and Netlibrary. I thought they were the same system initially. … Read more
Ok, I know I am expanding the reading tools idea a bit much, but as my wife says, “he is a bag whore.” I like just the right bag for how I am going to use it. For my ipad I was looking for a bag that was big enough for the ipad and a … Read more