I am having a hard time focusing on anything lately. I have read about 10 percent of six books in the last three days and just cannot get into anything. So as a bit of humor here is an old video about what Gutenberg Tech Support might have been like.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is a mostly gross and occasionally very interesting book. I purchased the book in the first place because I enjoyed Mary Roach’s previous book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Roach’s writing style is unique. She seems to just wander through thoughts as they come to her, giving … Read more
I am on a self imposed book buying fast. I am trying to work through a significant portion of my long backlog of books between now and the new year. Divine Justice was free on Audible.com. (It still is as of Aug 14, 2010. You need to get the audible.com software for a blackberry. It is a … Read more
I am not going to turn this site into a movie review site. But my wife and I used to watch a lot of movies. We joined Netflix soon after it started and for a year or so our church small group was a movie watching group. Five of the six in the group were … Read more
I am not a huge fan of apologetics. So is is a bit odd that I picked this book to read and review. I am not trying to be disingenuous, but rather I hoped that the focus would be on the subtitle “Living the Faith We Defend“. But this book still started with some of … Read more
I have been hearing nuggets about the book Drive fairly regularly since it came out last December. Finally after yet another positive review from Tony Morgan, I picked it up. Drive is fascinating, although a little repetitive. We are told over and over again, that the science of motivation is far from the business of actually motivating … Read more
Takeaway: Classic Christian biographies are well worth reading to show us what God has done before us, even if they occasionally fall into hagiography. One of the significant benefits of ereaders is that anything in public domain is essentially free. Want to read Little Women, you can read it for free. Want to read Anna Karenina, Hunchback of … Read more
Every once in a while I need something to clense the pallet. Wait, that is how I started my review of No Way to Treat a First Lady. Well I am a big fan of Christopher Buckley’s humor. Darn it. That is how I started the review of Boomsday. At least I read Supreme Courtship … Read more
The Necromancer is the fourth book in a series. So not one I would recommend jumping directly into. These are not stand alone books. The series starts with The Alchemyst, then The Magician, then the Sorceress (links are to my reviews). The first book I found free for kindle (it is no longer free). The last three … Read more
I tweeted yesterday that I am going to take a book buying fast until the new year. And I feel I need to include the kindle in that book buying fast. (In case you are wondering, I am going to give the equivelent or more to http://ahomeinhaiti.org/ to build houses for orphans there. You can … Read more