First Shift – Legacy (Wool #6) by Hugh Howey

Summary: A Prequel to Wool, we find out how it all started or at least we start to find out.

First Shift: Legacy (Wool #6) is the start to a prequel trilogy for five books of Wool by Hugh Howey.  Without giving up too much of the storyline of Wool, the setting is a post-apocalyptic world where everyone lives in underground silos waiting for it to be safe to return to the above ground world.

First Shift tells both the story of how (and a little bit of why) the silos were built and the early years of living in the silos.  The main character tells both stories through flashback.

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2012 Best Books for Preachers

  Al Mohler has a round up of the 2012 best books for preachers in a very long article at Preaching magazine.  I did not read the full article (I don’t have that much time) If you are just interested in the short list of the 10 Books Every Preacher Should Read in 2013 (part of Mohler’s … Read more

Bookish.com – Discover More Books

Bookish.comBookish.com, a new book recommendation website, has entered the fray.

Bookish uses recommendation algorithms like Amazon or Goodreads, but also real editors to make suggestions.

I have only played with it briefly, but I have not been incredibly impressed.  You enter a book and it gives you recommendations.  More books entered, the better the recommendations supposed to be.

The basic problem with Bookish is that it does not seem to fit a need.

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New Harry Potter Covers

According to a Scholastic press release and a gawker article, Harry Potter is getting new covers to celebrate its 15th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The Anniversary Box Set with all new covers will be released in September. As far as I can tell, only the one cover has been released.

Writers on the Classics

Chris Smith, the editor of Englewood Review of Books, has challenged us all to read more classics this year. To give us suggestions, Smith has asked a number of writers to give suggestions of classics that are worth reading.  I posted about the first two of these lists, but more suggestions have been posted.  Here … Read more

Wool Books 4 and 5 (The Unraveling & Stranded) by Hugh Howey

Wool 4 - The Unraveling

Summary: After the first three books gave background, book four and five move into full blown action.

There is no way to review books 4 and 5 without giving away some spoilers.  So if you have not read books 1 to 3, please skip this review and read the review of books 1 to 3 then read books 1 to 3 and then come back. (SPOILER ALERT)

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Offsite: Read This, Not That

The Parchment Girl blog is back.  Parchment Girl (aka Kate) after a hiatus has started blogging again.  Today she posted, “Read This, Not That: Overrated Christian Bestsellers and Lesser Known Alternatives“. I think this is a great idea for book bloggers to highlight lesser known (and often better) books.  I am not an expert in … Read more