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 spread out the favorites of 2012 posts over nearly two weeks. If you are interested here is the complete list in a single post. I am going to split them into fiction and non-fiction lists and put them in order with most favorite at the top. I read 180 book this year these are … Read more
This is off topic, but my wife and two friends of ours had fun with sparklers last night. Here are some of the better pictures. Hope everyone has a wonderful new year.
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
In 2012 Bookwi.se posted 1009 posts (so far) from seven different contributors. Today’s review was the 600th overall book review. There were about 110,000 page views at the blog. And another 120,000 views in the full post RSS or Email. Also there were about 105,000 spam comments. As of right now there are 33 people … Read more
Here are the 10 most read reviews of 2012. Mostly this seems to tell me about the oddities of Social Media, Search Engine Optimization and chance more than anything else. The first two books both were hit by StumbleUpon. I really liked both books, but they far and away had more views than a usual … 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