The Emerging Scholars Blog is doing a March Madness style tournament to determine the best Christian Book of All Time. Round one is over and there is a post detailing all the winners and losers. We have Bernard of Clairvaux losing decisively to CS Lewis and Rick Warren losing an even more lop-sided battle to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. But other … Read more
I am NOT a sports fan. I know in March college basketball has a tournament and lots of people work up brackets and win and lose lots of money betting on the games. But that is the extent of my knowledge. I have no idea whether it has started or in process right now. But … Read more
Anyone who has read more than 2 posts at Bookwi.se knows that I am a big fan of digital publishing. The only time I consistently reading paper books is when I fly. But today’s new post at Englewood Review of Books is a good example that not everything about Digital Publishing is good. Already there are 10 … Read more
I am about 1/3 of the way through Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works by James KA Smith. It is not an easy book to read, (fortunately for me according to this review it is about to get easier). However, I think this is a book that is worth struggling through. There was a blog post … Read more
Work, the stuff that the average Christian does to support themselves and their families, is often undervalued by the church except as a means for funding those that work for the church full time. That is not the way that Christianity officially thinks about work. Joanna at JoannaMuses.com has a review of the book Fruit … Read more
I am convinced that Grace, while being one of the topics that Christian like to talk about most, is one of the topics that Christians understand least and talk about most poorly. James Matichuk at the Thoughts, Prayers and Songs blog has a review of The Romance of Grace by Jim McNeely. I almost didn’t … Read more
For the past several years, Amazon has had a Breakthrough Novel Award contest. This year, Amazon has included multiple categories and has changed the awards to a publishing contract directly with Amazon, since Amazon is now a publishing company as well as a retailer. The winner will receive a $50,000 advance and four others will get a … Read more
Hugh Howey, author of the Wool series, was the feature of a very good article on Wall Street Journal over the weekend. The article is about how independent authors are changing the publishing industry. In particular it is about how Howey was able to make more than $1 million dollars on his Wool series even … Read more
Goodereader.com has a post about JK Rowling bringing two of her suplemental books about Harry Potter to ebook format for charity. Two books (Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) were originally written as fundraiser books for the charity Comic Relief. They are now are being brought to ebook and their proceeds will again … Read more
Englewood Review of Books has had an ongoing project of asking writers to suggest classics that they recommend reading. Last week Doug Worgul (author of the