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
The Hole in our Gospel and related search strings are consistently one of the top books that bring people to this blog. And Monday May, 31, 2010 is the last day that christianaudio.com is giving away the audio version free. So I thought I would link to two blogs I trust for second opinions. First here … Read more
I posted a book review over at ChurchCrunch. Here is the start of the review: Twitter is ubiquitous. Now it is even a format for books ideas. It seems odd, but as far as I can tell (in my very brief amount of searching) this is the first book made up mostly of a curated twitter stream. … Read more
Agatha Christie’s The Body in the Library was offered free on kindle very briefly a few weeks ago. So briefly that I assume it was a pricing mistake, not a promotional offer. But I thought it was a good book to be my first full book on my ipad. I have blogged about the ipad … Read more
Takeaway: A summer beach read that treats Florida like a character. Purchase Links: Paperback, Kindle Edition, Audible.com Audiobook Skin Tight is the second book by Carl Hiaasen that I have read. The first book I read, Tourist Season, had one overlapping character, if you do not include the Miami area, which Hiaasen seems to treat like … Read more
Church history is complicated. The problem with accepting complication is that some, maybe most, just ignore it. Many others want to suggest that the complication can be easily simplified and really if you ignore the uncomfortable or difficult sections then it is easily understood. It is only the few that want to wade through and … Read more
I share my kindle account with several other people. And when others order books I quite often get them sent to my kindle because my name is first in the list so it is the default kindle. Last week I recieved a large number of classic books that were ordered by one of the others … Read more
Takeaway: People make bad decisions, Ariely shows us why. Predictably Irrational is all about behavioral economics. Dan Ariely, unlike most economists does not believe that people are essentially rational and able to weigh the pros and cons of decisions and make perfectly rational market-based decisions. Instead the basic thesis of this book is that people are … Read more
Divine Commodity is a provocative book. Probably the most provocative I have read since Flickering Pixels. (I ended up writing five blog posts about Flickering Pixels because it was so provocative. This is the last post with links to the others.) In many ways it is hard to argue with the basic idea that the … Read more