The Great Spiritual Migration (Book Review with Notes)
This book makes some major great points and I am encouraged that it is so popular that it is making the rounds. It’s perspective is much needed.
5 Star Books
The Winthrop Woman (Book Review)
I recommend this book highly to any one interested in the 1600’s in New England (particularly Connecticut), for you will come to understand it as never before.
Hillbilly Elegy (Book Review)
David Brooks of the New York Times calls this book “essential reading for this moment in history.” I agree, and surprise myself by giving this book that I dragged my feet so long about reading– five stars.
In the Company of Women (Book Review)
Lets keep forwarding and amplifying the kind of authenticity, permission, and innovative ingenuity, expressed in these pages!
Cloud Atlas (Book Review)
Wow. I give this stunning, thought provoking book, a rousing five stars. This is a most brilliant book, far different than anything else I have ever read. It is an ingenious interplay of subplots…
News of the World (Book Review)
This short, sweet book is full of gun-slinging action, overcoming, and warmth. It is perfect to read after a something longer or more demanding.
The Robe (Book Review)
I can’t say enough good things about this book, and I give it an enthusiastic five stars. I think everyone should read this Christian classic.
The Invention of Nature (Book Review)
This biography of Alexander Von Humboldt is brilliantly researched, pragmatically told, and wildly relevant. I give it five stars.
Vanessa and Her Sister (Book Review)
This book is about the “Bloomsbury Group,” which I didn’t know much about before, even though I had heard of most of the characters involved, and just didn’t know that they were connected.
Sunday Sketching (Book Review)
This is an absolutely wonderful book. It is part memoir, part a book about design and creativity, part humor and pure brilliance. I give it 5 stars.
When the Emperor Was Divine (Book Review)
This books does not take long to read, but it is deeply affecting. I give it five stars.
Book Review: My Grandmother Told Me To Tell You She’s Sorry
This book is as different and wonderful as the exceptional almost-eight-year-old-girl and her chaotic, cantankerous, superhero of a grandmother are.
Book Review: Interrupted
This fresh book is thankfully neither self-satisfied nor the last word, but the beginning of a discussion on what it means to really follow Jesus, instead of the stale culture of most of modern Christianity.
Book Review: Dinner with Edward
This sweet, yummy book is a great way to spent an evening. It is a short, loving memoir of the transformative effect their dinners together has on both of them.
Book Review: Soul of an Octopus
This book challenges our material assumptions about consciousness and the sources of intelligence in an effective and captivating way.
Book Review: The Nightingale
This moving story will hold you until the last word and beyond. Read it if you need to remember not to take anything for granted.
Book Review: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
This slim volume is wonderful. I give it five stars. It is concise and understandable, relevant and expansive.