Christianity Today released their Best Books of 2014 list. Like normal they have several categories and with a couple of ties, there are 23 books on the list. The book of the year is Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith by Jen Pollock Michel. It is one among several of this … Read more
I love reading through best of the year Book lists to see what I missed. I tend to read a lot of books that are a few years old and not that many that are brand new. So rarely have I read more than a handful of any of the best of the year lists. … Read more
This month I am a bit broader and including my reviews of the Kindle Unlimited after Three Months and the new Kindle Voyager and Kindle Basic Touchscreen since by page views, they were among the most read reviews of the month. The most read reviews at Bookwi.se: Discovering Your Heart with the Flag Page Test … Read more
Summary: A 38 year old man (maybe on the Autism spectrum?) learns to cope with his Mother’s death by writing letters to Richard Gere. Mental Illness is serious, which is why I think it is so important that Matthew Quick has made a career of writing good, usually funny books about it. The three books I … Read more
I am reposting this 2010 review because the Kindle Edition is on sale for $2.99 (along with the also reviewed Sacred Pathways and Sacred Marriage). Takeaway: God has created pleasure, we should not feel bad when we enjoy what he has created. I have been puttering through this book for about eight weeks now. I … Read more
Summary: A young nun experiences the stigmata in a 1906 upstate New York convent. I do not remember where I was reading, but at some point earlier this year I ran across a blog post that was asking for authors that are normally considered literary fiction, but often write with religious themes. Many of the … Read more
Summary: Series of lectures on spiritual development. Over the last couple months I have come to the conclusion that Evangelicals (of whom I am one) are good at sharing the gospel and keeping the importance of conversion squarely in their sights. But I have also come to see that groups that assume the large scale … Read more