Heading into the 4th of July weekend – even though the holiday isn’t until Tuesday – I thought it might be appropriate to recommend a perfect book for your holiday enjoyment. The ever brilliant Richard Brookhiser’s latest work, What Would the Founders Do?, seems well suited to be read this weekend. In WWFD Brookhiser uses [...]
Those who have read this site for a while will not be surprised to find that I am not one to scream censorship the minute a parent complains about a book or a school changes the reading list. I believe parents and schools have the right – actually the duty – to decide what is [...]
Tiger Force by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss is a fascinating look at men and war. The story is about an elite U.S. Army unit that went terribly wrong. It is like a train wreck that you don’t want to see, but you look anyway. Early in the Vietnam War, the Army created an elite [...]
I know I said I was going to concentrate on thinking rather than linking but I saw something I wanted to share. Read these two Toledo Blade letters to the editor: The resemblance is astonishing I come from a very wealthy family. I conduct business under a veil of secrecy. I make decisions with religious [...]
The next stop on our summer tour of thrillers is T.L. Hines‘debut novel Waking Lazarus. This “Christian Thriller” comes to me by way of the Christian Fiction Blog Tour. The central character in Waking Lazarus is Jude Allman. Jude is living in Red Lodge, Montana under the name Ron Gress. He has sheetrocked over his [...]
I have been having a certain amount of angst lately about this site and what it all means. It just seems like I haven’t been making the most of it. Circumstances at work and at home have conspired to keep me from from posting regularly. And yet the pressure to post in order to keep [...]
For some (unintentional) reason I seem to be reading a lot of thrillers this summer. From Christian supernatural thrillers to hitman with a conscience to post-war P.I. stories I seem to be reading a lot of action/suspense type stories. Why do I bring this up? Well, as you might have guessed, I just finished another [...]
Some places I have been visiting this morning: – Olen Steinhaurer: But then, like any successful porn star, I started to worry. – Jonah Goldberg on the “The Triumph of T.R.-ism.” There’s some good stuff in Karl Rove’s piece on TR, but this strikes me as good a moment as any to just say it: [...]
I am seem to be hopelessly behind in my reading these days – as are most book bloggers I would imagine. A while back I received Glad News of the Natural World by T.R. Pearson in the mail. Since this was a follow-up to his “breakout” novel A Short History of a Small Place I [...]
I have finally surfaced to offer some explanations as to the silence of this site. One obvious problem is that the older Ella gets the less time one has to sit at a computer and upload photos and type explanations. Another problem is that the site I had planed on using as an alternative to [...]