Andrew Toy, blogger at AdoptingJames and author of the recent book The Man in the Box has made a commitment to read more fiction. I fully agree with this commitment and I have been increasing my amount of fiction the last couple years. I think it is particularly important for Evangelicals that tend to be too … Read more
I am interested in The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity as a corrective to some other modern theology movements around the trinity. It is finally available for kindle and so I will probably pick it up soon. Nick Norelli’s review is mixed, but positive enough in the areas … Read more
I have seen several very good reviews of TORN: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate by Justin Lee. I could link to several different reviews (and I may link to more in the future) but I thought this was a good review because it is a personal review of a pastor that has been struggling … Read more
I really do like to read what other people think about book and find new books to read. So I keep reading best of book lists. Here are four lists from blogs I read regularly. John Chandler is a pastor in Austin, TX and an online friend. We have similar tastes in books and similar … Read more
George Mason University’s History News Network has the best history books of 2012. These are all US history, but have a pretty wide range. The fourth volume of Robert Caro’s series on Lyndon Johnson is the book of the year, which I have seen on several other best books of the year list. h/t Challies
I was referred to NearEmmaus by a friend earlier this year and I have been consistently impressed with the quality of blogging the whole team, but particularly Brian LePort the main blogger. NearEmmaus is a serious biblioblog that is still accessible by an academic wannabe like myself. Many of the books the Brian and other … Read more
This is a pretty good article in the New York Times about how Libraries are filling a niche of books stores as the large bookstores are closing. Lots of libraries are trying to reinvent themselves as meeting spots, including coffee shops and large comfy chairs, study rooms, etc. The article also talks about the need … Read more
Ireaderreview.com has some genuinely helpful blog posts and reviews as well as good daily lists of free books. Today he posted a list of the top 10 problems that Kindle Fire owners have and how to fix them. I don’t have a kindle fire, so I don’t know how common these problems are. But the … Read more
Christianity Today’s Book Awards are always a list that I pay attention to. It tends to be a bit on the academic side but is often a quite good look at where there Christian book world has been the previous year. This year the article says that there were 455 submission from 68 publishers that … Read more
I was talking to a friend last night. He was talking about he new found love of comic books since he started reading them on his iPad. I have read a lot of comic books. I just was not a part of a community that read them, I didn’t have the money to buy a … Read more