February 1, 2012 – 7:51 am
The Book: Shepherding a Child’s Heart, by Tedd Tripp
The Story: This really is just another parenting book. The “twist” on this one, I guess, is that Tedd Tripp claims that his method of parenting is firmly based in the Bible and is the technique that will guide your kid down the “straight and narrow” from [...]
January 29, 2012 – 6:59 pm
The Book: Gone, Baby, Gone, by Dennis Lehane
The Story: A four year old girl, Amanda, is reported missing after having been gone several days. The private detective team of Patrick and Angie are put on the case because of their track record in being able to figure out tough cases that no one else can. [...]
January 22, 2012 – 10:20 am
The Book: Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way, by John Krakauer
The Story: I don’t know how many of you have read Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson, but I remember for a hot minute that book was EVERYWHERE. When I read it, I wrote this review on Goodreads [...]
January 21, 2012 – 11:22 am
Millard Fillmore, by Paul Finkelman
So I told you guys last month that Zachary Taylor was actually pretty sweet for how unknown he is and the length of his presidency (only about 18 months). The biography that I read talked about how had he lived, the civil war may had been totally avoided. The weird part? [...]
January 16, 2012 – 8:51 pm
The Book: The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
The Story: Hazel is a 16 year old girl that was diagnosed with terminal thyroid cancer two years ago. Because of some experimental drugs, she is still alive and still hanging on. She isn’t in school and most of her friends have ditched her, but she [...]
January 14, 2012 – 9:31 am
The Book: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan
The Story: Michael Pollan had been curious about where his food comes from for a long time. It’s just something that we, as Americans (or people living in a first world country) take for granted every single day, but it was something [...]
January 10, 2012 – 8:52 am
The Book: The Late Bloomer’s Revolution, by Amy Cohen
The Story: Amy is thirty years old and unmarried and has no children and she has been fired from her job and can’t ride a bike. She starts to think that she’s old and washed up and decides to better herself.
What I Thought: Here’s the thing: I [...]
January 7, 2012 – 9:14 am
The Book: Thirteen Moons, by Charles Frazier
The Story: When he is young, Will Cooper is orphaned and sent to live with his aunt and uncle. They don’t have time money to take care of him so they get him hooked up with a job running a small trading post out in the middle of Indian [...]
January 5, 2012 – 9:03 pm
The Book: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, by Catherine Howe
The Story: Connie is an academic who is challenged a bit by her academic advisor. He asks her to consider the possibility that the people accused in Salem in the 1690’s were actually just witches.
She kind of shoves his question to the back of [...]
December 20, 2011 – 9:09 am
The Book: Cloudsplitter, by Russell Banks
The Story: Cloudsplitter is a novel about the abolitionist John Brown (of Harper’s Ferry/Bloody Kansas fame), as told by his last surviving son, Owen. This book is Owen’s life story and confession.
Owen describes what it was like being John Brown’s son, kind of revealing him as a deeply religious father [...]