I am not giving a full review here, but just noting a couple of books I read recently. Easy to Kill, another classic by Agatha Christie, was a reread for me. It’s not usually much fun to reread a mystery because you would already know whodunnit. But I forgot who the murderer was until half […]
I read another biography of a Christian hero (children’s narrative version). William Booth is the founder of the Salvation Army. With what do you associate the Salvation Army? Soliciting money at Christmas with the ringing bell? The Salvation Army truck picking up your discards? The Salvation Army band at parades? (there is an interesting history […]
I love to read whodunnit type of mysteries in the classic tradition of Agatha Christie. Unfortunately, Withering Heights by Dorothy Cannell is not one of them. I read the first in this Ellie Haskell series, Thin Woman, a while ago. I didn’t love it, but I thought I’d try another book by this author. The […]
I know, the details do not all fit, but i still liked it. I like the Artemis Fowl series because it’s fun reading, a little humor, a little action, and lots of imagination. Everyone wants to be Artemis Fowl – a boy genius with a criminal mind, but deep inside, he has a soft heart […]
I’ve not read a biography of Hudson Taylor until now. I borrowed this book from Bonnie. Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret by Howard and Geraldine Taylor is apparently a fairly brief version of Hudson Taylor’s life, less than 200 pages. With the full life he lived, I can imagine how big a book his life story […]
My sister lent me the book Falling Leaves, The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline tells of her life growing up in a prominent Chinese family with wealth, but not love acceptance. (I hesitate to say she lacked love because love could’ve been expressed in ways that she didn’t see. […]
After I finished reading The Life You’ve Always Wanted by by John Ortberg last year, I wanted to read If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat, as recommended by Nat. But I don’t spend money to buy books (I read what I can borrow from people or […]
Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game, wrote a series of fiction on the women of Genesis – Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel. When you read the life of Rebekah in the Bible, many questions come to mind: What made Rebekah agree to leave her family to go so far to marry a man she’s […]
This book in the Ender’s Game series was a little hard to get through. The start was a little slow. I gave up, skipped a few chapters, read the end, and then went back to read it through. Orson Scott Card in this book Speaker for the Dead tells how humans and an alien species […]
This is Orson Scott Card’s newest book in the Ender’s Game series. We are fortunate enough to have found a copy in our local Walnut library. You have to read Ender’s Game to make sense of the later ones in the series. Once again, Ender Wiggin does not disappoint. He is super smart, out-maneuvers everyone, […]
War of Gifts is short story by Orson Scott Card using the setting and some of the characters in Ender’s Game. The story is somewhat humorous, aggravating, sad, and thought-provoking. And it had a good ending, so I liked it. Card is so clever in weaving a story while dealing with the difficult real life […]
I read on a blog that this was a good book. I have to rush through it because it’s due back at the library today. Good To Great for the Social Sector by Jim Collins is a monograph to accompany Good To Great. Collins brings out 5 issues and how the social sectors apply them […]
I said I wouldn’t read another one, but it was available in the library, I couldn’t resist. Shadow Puppet is next in the series after Shadow of the Hegemon. The story is exciting, but the characters are getting old. Same good guys, same bad guys. I see how it is very difficult to write a […]
I’ve read many of Rex Stout‘s Nero Wolfe series. I got this book from the library, Her Forbidden Knight, mistakenly thinking that it was part of the Nero Wolfe detective series. This turned out to be a cute romance, set in New York back in the days when telegrams existed, chivalry existed, and handshakes after […]
These books are too addicting. I promise I am not going to read the next one. It’s keeping me up at night. This is the next in the series after Ender’s Shadow. Instead of battling aliens in space, the genius kids are now back on Earth, fighting the evil schemer whose one ambition is to […]
Since reading Ender’s Game, my husband recommended the companion book Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card. I am not usually a scifi reader, but this series is less scifi and more about character development. The main characters, the kids, have complex backgrounds lending to their involved personalities. As the story progresses, the kids grow in […]
I finally got the book from the library that Elliot recommended. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. I must say, this author is pretty versatile. This book is very different from the one I read before. Overall, I liked both books. I know every scifi lover has read the Ender’s Game series. But since I […]
I think I will take a break from reading Laurie King’s series of Mary Russell. (Thanks, K, for lending them to me.) I just finished reading A Letter of Mary by King. It took me over a month. I kept falling asleep! I like the mystery in King’s books, but what I don’t like are […]
It’s not the usual type of book that I like to read. I usually don’t read fantasy. But Elliot recommended Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender’s Game was not available at the library, so I picked up Treasure Box by the same author. It started out as a rather intriguing mystery. The set up […]
Our pastor mentioned this book in one of his sermons, so I requested it at our local library (I love the library!). Salzman is a great story teller. He transforms his simple experiences into anecdotes that paints for us a picture of life in China on a local level. He shares his experiences with the […]