First, I want to thank everyone for their patience in the transition from MrShields.com to Bookwi.se. I made some mistakes and broke the RSS feed for most people for two weeks. But in spite of the problems, this months traffic will be about 20-25% higher than my best month at MrShields and I have about … Read more
I had a problem with the RSS feed. It seems to have been caught in a loop with the MrShields.com and Bookwi.se but not actually getting the any of the RSS subscribers. So here are the posts that you may have missed. Book Reviews Night by Elie Wiesel When Two Become One: Enhancing Sexual Intimacy … Read more
I love my kindle in large part because I do not need shelves for the books. Part of my commitment to myself when I bought the kindle was to not build up a paper library. So I give away almost all of my paper books once I have read them. I also get a few, … Read more
Some of the books from previous Free Book posts are still available for free. If you want to see all free books as they come out you should follow Books on the Knob on their RSSor Twitter Feed. As always please check to make sure the books are still free before you “œbuy” them, especially from Amazon. Prices can change quickly. … Read more
Around Christmas, John Armstrong had a couple posts about this book. The basic idea of the book is to encourage non-erotic (platonic) cross gender friendships among Christians. This is a fairly delicate subject because we all know affairs and issues that arise from cross gender friendship. I think this book makes a fairly strong case … Read more
The last post was about my favorite books. This post is about the most read posts of 2010. The first was actually written in 2009. The rest of posts were written this year. A Millions Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller A Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Sterns Humility: True Greatness by … Read more
I read 131 books this year (if I counted right). These are the books that I liked most or were most inflential to my life. This is a non-fiction list, that is what I read most. I will post a fiction list later. I am ordering them by date read oldest to newest. Introverts in the … Read more
I am considering re-branding this blog. I am looking for a new blog name that would be easy to remember, not have my name in it, and still get across the idea that this is a book blog. Because I am not great at the whole creative idea thing, I have asked around for suggestions. … Read more
A few weeks ago I reviewed the companion book to Waiting for Superman. Finally I went to go see the movie this morning. I was accompanied by my teacher wife and public charter school principal Mother In Law. As with any documentary it doesn’t really show the whole picture. But I thought it was worth … Read more
I love audiobooks. christianaudio.com gives away 1 book every month. So I always download at least one book a month from them. And frequently they have very good books for a couple dollars. Right now they have almost their entire store on sale for $7.49. I am thinking of picking up a couple books. (By … Read more