Over the past two years my wife and I have lead a small group for newly married couples. We are getting ready to start a third group at the end of the month and as we have talked about the curriculum we have found a couple of holes in the content or areas we want … Read more
These are the most read reviews for July 2012. This month 3 of the 7 most read reviews were primarily written in previous months. Discovering Your Heart is a small book but has had consistant readers. The Fifty Shades books have been pretty much continuous traffic, although not many each day. Fifty Shades Darker … Read more
Posts will likely be pretty light over the next two weeks. I am with my family from today to next week And then on vacation with my wife’s family the week after. I will probably post book reviews but not many free books.
I have mostly stopped doing reviews of new popular books in the Christian world. Occasionally I will. But I prefer reading books I want to read, when I want to read them instead of reading based on what is new and hot. The other problem is that I prefer writing good reviews. No one really wins … Read more
Here are the top reviews (by traffic) for the month of May Now You’re Speaking My Language: Honest Communication and Deeper Intimacy for a Stronger Marriage by Gary Chapman Review of the Refurbished Kindle (Basic or Kinde 4) Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James Fifty Shades Darker by EL James The Explicit Gospel by … Read more
This week is going have a very light schedule. I am going to go on my 19th guys trip (an approximately annual trip that we have been doing since college.) I will be out of town Thursday to Sunday this week. I will try to have a book review at least on Thursday and Friday … Read more
I started out to cobble together some reviews from around the web, when I realized that Englewood Review of Books had enough very good reviews to have their own post. The Englewood Review of Books is both in print and on the web. It was started out of a single church in Indianapolis and is … Read more
CNet is reporting that Amazon is likely to ship a color e-ink kindle sometime in 2012. E-ink screens are important because they do not have a backlight and require light from an external source just like a regular book. This is better on the eyes and better for people that have sleep issues associated with backlighted screens (about 10% of the population).
Liliputing (a computer news site devoted to small sized computers and tablets) had two stories of interest. One is that the USPS has said that starting May 16, 2012, you can no longer ship lithium batteries or devices that have lithium batteries overseas. This would include Kindles, iPads, cell phones and a variety of other electronic devices. This will impact several charities that use USPS to get ebook readers to troops.
Kindle Fire users have a new security features with the new update. Parental controls, password protected purchases, locking the web browser and disabling portions of the library are all features in the new 6.3.1 operating system upgrade. These features are useful for parents that are concerned about their children using the Kindle Fire unassisted.
This weekend I have finished Frank Schaeffer’s Crazy for God (review tomorrow), watched Donald Miller‘s Blue Like Jazz movie and gone to visit the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. All three of which, have made me think in different ways about the importance of beauty to our Christian faith and theology. I have only read a few things that have tangentially related … Read more
