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Book Review – Writing Without Rules, Jeffery Somers

  • October 16, 2025September 21, 2025
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Book Review – Writing Without Rules, Jeffery Somers

Being a writer, though, is so much more than just writing, and that’s what Somers addresses. He wants you to move you out of your own way and get you writing.

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The Library

Book Review, The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav

  • October 9, 2025September 16, 2025
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Book Review, The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav

Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul It was years ago. In Maine. I was a young Christian and a young physics student, and the…

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Christian

Silence, Book Review, Shusaku Endo

  • October 2, 2025September 16, 2025
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Silence, Book Review, Shusaku Endo

Book Review Silence, by Shusaku Endo Picador Modern Classics A Travelogue Hailed a modern classic, the novel is philosophical and long and slow. Reading it,…

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Christian

Book Review: Everything is Spiritual, Rob Bell

  • September 25, 2025September 16, 2025
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Book Review: Everything is Spiritual, Rob Bell

Everything is Spiritual, Rob Bell I’m…a little…confused about…what to write… I enjoyed the book. The book-ish. It’s not really a book, and I agree with…

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Christian

What if you wasted your entire life?

  • September 18, 2025September 18, 2025
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What if you wasted your entire life?

Modern readers can struggle with the prose, and Tolstoy, like most Russian authors, takes his sweet time to develop the story.

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Evolution

Book Review – Sex on Earth, by Jules Howard

  • September 11, 2025August 22, 2025
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Book Review – Sex on Earth, by Jules Howard

Book Review, Sex on Earth by Jules Howard Sex on Earth is a fun romp through the animal kingdom that is hard to put down. Accurate…

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TBI Tuesday

TBI Tuesday – Book Review – Still Alice, Lisa Genova

  • August 19, 2025August 11, 2025
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TBI Tuesday – Book Review – Still Alice, Lisa Genova

  I hate this book. I set it down a dozen times while reading. I’m an American male, you see, who was hit by a…

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Christian

Celebration of Discipline, R. Foster, Review

  • August 14, 2025August 11, 2025
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Celebration of Discipline, R. Foster, Review

Two million copies! Celebration of Discipline has taken up lonely space on my bookshelves for some twenty-five years now, proving my lack of discipline. Or…

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