Summary: A look at how five Christians have used rhetoric to impact the church. One of my goals over the next couple of years is to think more clearly about how people’s minds are changed. I purposely say that in the passive voice, because while you can influence the changing of minds, you cannot as … Read more
Summary: An unlikable maid is found dead and there are too many people that could have killed her. PD James is one of those authors that I feel like I should have read by now. I picked up a collection of the first six books in the series on kindle for cheap a bit ago … Read more
Summary: Georgie is again sent to check up on her cousin (who happens to be the Crown Prince.) The series premise is that Georgie, now 35th in line to the throne, is too poor to really survive on her own without working. But it too royal to take a real job. So she pieces together … Read more
Summary: L’Engle’s writing style and ideas, but re-imagined as a young adult spy thriller. My wife and children were gone for the weekend so I spent most of the weekend either doing data entry with an audiobook in the background or walking/driving around playing Pokemon Go (with an audiobook in the background). I finished four … Read more
After having read 10 books of this series in the last four years I recommend it. A couple were not up to the standards of the rest of the series, but it is mostly a very good cozy mystery series. This first book is currently on sale for $1.99. The 11th book in the series comes … Read more
Reposting this 2014 review because the Kindle Edition is on sale for $1.99. The audiobook is only $3.49 with the purchase of the Kindle Edition. Summary: Finally Georgie gets to spend some time with Darcy and its Christmas, but bodies keep piling up. At this point I am six books into the Her Royal Spyness … Read more
Summary: A retired Inspector Gamache continues to need to respond to the deaths around him in Three Pines. Popular murder mystery series always have the problem of very high rates of murder around the protagonist. It is one reason that they tend to be police officers of big cities in order to give some credibility … Read more
Summary: What comes around…? When a murder mystery series is based around a small town there has to be some questions about how/why murders will disproportionately happen in this particular town. A Fatal Grace is only the second book in a now ten book series, but Louise Penny has taken a wise path, it is … Read more
Favorite books of the year lists are the ultimate in subjectivity. Yes, there is a thing that is called a good book. But I tend to think that the book that lots of people like is worth picking over one that is technically excellent, but many did not actually like (The Magician trilogy is a … Read more
Takeaway: Another short story collection I didn’t like, surprise! Anyone that has read my blog regularly over the past year or so will not be surprised that I didn’t like another collection of short stories. That makes me 0.5 of 5 this year. And it is not that the collections were poorly reviewed or by … Read more