I love when I find Christian authors that manage not to be cheesy. So often the authors feel so strongly about their message that the story and characters suffer in service to it. Peretti's stories definitely do not have that problem, or at least not the two I've read recently. The story follows ...
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Wow. This was incredible, sweeping, and epic! Also, a genre unto itself. I'm not even sure how one would classify it. It's non-fiction, but set in a fictional frame story. A narrator is given a series of fictional visions that follow the pattern of biblical prophecy. He meets a traveler to whom he ...
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I listened to this alternately as I listened to "Man's Search for Meaning," and I think the two made an interesting and insightful contrast. While I don't generally find pure adventure stories all that interesting (there are only so many things that can go wrong, and after awhile you kind of get the ...
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Wow. I'd previously only read the "Blinkist" version of this book, but it loses so much when stripped of context (which I think is true for nearly every book worth reading, really--that's why I got rid of that app.) Had this just been memoirs from Auschwitz, I don't think I'd have read it, as I ...
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I found a new favorite author! This is the second book I've read by Beth Moran (the first was Christmas Every Day) and they were both just delightful. I'm not generally a chick lit kind of a girl, but they were chick lit in all the best ways and without the drawbacks (which usually tends to be an ...
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So fun! I'd read the first book in this series and enjoyed it, but then forgot about it until I saw it in part of the free books included with my audible membership this month. I'm glad I rediscovered it! A lot of the middle-grade lighthearted writing style, the whimsy, and even the plot reminds ...
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I can't believe I'd never read this before! Such a gem! It reminded me a great deal of "The Count of Monte Cristo" at least for the first half or so, since the theme of betrayal and revenge drove the plot. But after that, the story abruptly changes course. It's interesting that it's billed as "A ...
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This was a fun read! It reminded me a lot of the Lunar Chronicles, and particularly of Cinder. Solara is an orphaned teenage mechanic living in an intergalactic universe - hence the connection in my mind to Cinder. In this world, misdeeds are tattooed across the knuckles so that all the world can ...
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As murder mysteries go, this has to be one of the best. I guess that's why it's one of the top selling murder mysteries of all time. And what a title! Absolutely perfect, though I understand that until recent decades it was called "Ten Little Indians." I see why, from the story, but that's nowhere ...
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Chernow is quickly becoming one of my favorite historians! While I realize that nearly every author probably can't help but include some element of "spin," the depth and detail of his research helped to convince me that he was as intellectually honest as he could possibly be with the evidence ...
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