All Entries in the "Book Reviews" Category
Perhaps We All Have Multiple Personality Disorder
I just finished reading “Switching Time” by Dr. Richard Baer. It Blew. My. Mind. Do not read this if you are afraid of course language. I don’t mean to be graphic, but in retelling this true story there is no way to convey the story any other way.
People who suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder or [...]
Meeting Heather B. Armstrong in the Flesh
Heather Flails her arms about wildly, but looks beautiful and pregnant nonethless
Last night I drove down to Austin to meet Heather B. Armstrong a.k.a Dooce. It was a treat…
When I first started working at Texas Instruments I HATED my job. I sat in one of those cubicle that only goes about 3 feet how and [...]
A Review: Skinny B~tch (Rated R)
Authors Note: Profanity is used in this review, but only when quoting word for word from this book. I would have used niceties like “The F word or the S word, but I think we are all adults here and I wanted to give you the facts instead of putting perfume on a turd.
I listen [...]
River God
I just finished my latest Wilbur Smith novel – River God.
At the end of the book there is an author’s note that this book was based on a true account of the slave Taita that lived in Egypt during 1780 b.c. No other author has ever moved me to such depths or taught me so [...]
WARLOCK
I’m currently enthralled in another Wilbur Smith novel called “Warlock”. An epic tale of Pharoahs and Egypt, I can’t help but think of one of the best children’s stories from the Bible and after doing some research it appears that Smith’s fictional stories are often more fact than fiction.
In the book there is one scene [...]
Sex. Every Day. For One Year.
I hadn’t heard of this book 365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy until I bounced over to Edgy Mama’s site to see what she has been up to. There she talked about some of the hate mail her latest article has received and after reading the well-written article I don’t see what the fuss is [...]
Gut Check by Tarek Saab
I walked out to the mailbox on a Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. and found my copy of Gut Check stuffed snugly between my mortgage payment and my car payment. It is now 7:27 p.m. as I write this and I have already finished reading this book. It is 191 pages of some of the [...]
“A scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch on LSD…”
I’m reading True Evil by Greg Iles and his protagonist uses this phrase to describe a lab that is full of primates that he plans to set on fire. I’d never heard of Bosch so I Googled him. His pictures depict images of sin and hell, I’ve never seen anything like them.
I am a [...]
Holy Discontent: Fueling the fire that ignites personal vision – by Bill Hybels
When I first read the title of this book I thought it was going to be about people who were discontent with their faith, it isn’t. It is a book about people who were unsettled by what they saw around them and they decided to do something about it. People like Mother Teresa who walked [...]
The Grand Weaver by Ravi Zacharias
It is strange reading a Christian book written by someone who was born and raised in India. Why is this weird to me? I don’t know, I guess it is just that most of the non-fiction Christian books I read are written by someone who was born here and knows our culture but very little about [...]
Demon Possession, Truth, Book Reviews…
I don’t know if I mentioned the fact that I get free books to read from Zondervan and one other publisher so that I can review them on my website. I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had time to do much reviewing, however, I can tell you that I am reading Holy Discontent by [...]
3 Seconds by Les Parrott, PhD
The Power of Thinking Twice
I don’t do self-help books. I rarely pick up anything to read other than my Bible and fictional books that fall into the psychological thriller – murder mystery genre. Business, corporate talk, money-making books, finance, get-rich-quick guides normally turn me off faster than my mom used to turn off the TV [...]