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Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Don't ask me why I was expecting this to be a tedious read. It was anything but. Master of Ballantrae is the story of two brothers, one good and one bad. James, the wicked one, is heir to the family ...
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry 17 Aug 2013 | 02:37 am
Fans of Wendell Berry know his favorite themes are the importance of community and the disadvantages of runaway progress. His novel Jayber Crow is no exception. In his gentle, inimitable style Berry t...
Five Worst Books for Children 14 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
Tim Challies shares this link to an article on the Five Worst Books for Children. I was not surprised to see The Golden Compass since it was written purposely to turn children's hearts away from God,...
Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat 9 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Educator Charlotte Mason would have called Children of the New Forest a “living history book” since it painlessly teaches the basics of the English Civil War. If that event doesn’t ring a bell, the na...
Free Download of John Stott's Basic Christianity 7 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
This month's freebie at ChristianAudio.com is John Stott's Basic Christianity. Stott is one of the great Christian thinkers of the last 100 years. Highly recommended.
Reminiscing about Books 2 Aug 2013 | 05:18 pm
I was adding a few titles to my reading journal and decided to take a peak at what I was reading ten years ago. It turned out to be a Jane Austen knockoff called The Third Sister by Julia Barrett. I ...
July Book Report 2 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
I read lots of fiction last month. Let's just pretend it was summer reading and leave it at that. The one non-fiction book was A Child al Confino, the story of a Jewish boy and his mother who were con...
Chesterton on Kindle 1 Aug 2013 | 07:37 pm
Amazon.com is offering a free download today (8/1/13) of a book called The Life and Words of G.K. Chesterton. I have not read it, but the reviews seem to be good.
In Search of Balance by Richard Swenson 26 Jul 2013 | 07:51 pm
In the past, there was a closure on the end of every day. . . . It was called night. There also existed a closure on the end of every week - it was called Sabbath, or the Lord’s Day, or weekend. Te...
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt 19 Jul 2013 | 01:00 pm
Normally I avoid books about extremely unhappy families and whose protagonist’s main vocabulary words are “shut up” and “stupid.” But having been won over to the YA fiction of Gary Schmidt through Wed...
