Review: Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossoms by Kim Hooper
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an ARC of this book. This is an honest review.

I did not know what to expect when I got the copy of the book. While I did not know anything about the author, somehow it seemed an interesting story. It was.

Jonathan has had a terrible loss. We know the love of his life, Sara is gone. Now he wants to end his life and makes plans for it, one year from now. This is his journey to that end. As he starts this journey, his chosen method of suicide is one that originated in Japan. For that reason, and because Sara always wanted to see the Cherry Blossoms in Japan, he plans a trip there before he dies.

To make that trip he starts a bucket list. One is to take a class in Japanese so when he visits he can try to not be a typical american tourist. In that class he meets Riko. She is Japanese but was sent here by her parents when she was three years old. Her quest is to find out why she was sent here, to find out the origins of her life. A sharp contrast to Jonathan seeking death.

The story jumps back and forth from present to his past life with Sara. While this could be jarring, the author does a very good job. The changes in time seem to flow into each other. Sometimes a chapter is about his past, other times his future. There are a few times where we see both in the same chapter.

In the chapters dedicated the current day we learn just how Sara dies. Just when you think that you understand just how it all happened , there is a jarring clue revealed. . In those revelations, many to Riko, we peel back the complicated life that was Jonathan and Sara.

In chasing her past, Riko needs to go to Japan so she invites herself to go along with Jonathan. We see Japan through their eyes.

I would recommend this book to anyone. While there is talk about suicide, I do not see it influencing anyone to do so. The rich depth of the main characters is so good, I really wanted the story to go on. Read it, you will enjoy it.

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Review: Dark Nights: Metal: Deluxe Edition (Dark Nights: Metal

Dark Nights: Metal: Deluxe Edition (Dark Nights: Metal by Scott Snyder
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an ARC copy from Net Galley, what follows is an honest review.

I did not know what to expect from this. I have not read many of the modern comics. I am a reader of comics but back in the 60's and early 70's. I know a lot has changed, that from time to time the comics need to reboot otherwise, Superman and the gang would be in their 80's or 90's.

I have known of the multiverse from the Arrowverse shows on CW. That took me as no surprise. I was not ready for a demonic dark universe. That caught my attention.

It was probably better that I read them all at once. I am not sure I would have lasted reading them in their original form, spread out over many months. It most likely would not have kept my interest over that long of a period.

We know the story of the heroes. So there is nothing new there. What was new was the dark multiverse. Out of it come our nightmares. How can we prevent it when it comes to take over our plane of existence.

Recommended to any who enjoy comics, though with all the death, preteens and below might be affected.

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Review: The Stranger In Central Park

The Stranger In Central Park by James Patrick Dillon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

​I so wanted this to be a book to help me in my spiritual beliefs. However, that was not to be. I will say that I enjoyed most of the story. A modern day Jesus arrives in Central Park in New York as a young woman is being raped. She has a room mate who loves her but Katie is not into girls though she is in approval of the lifestyle. Her brother, mayor of New York, once thought of as a potential presidential candidate before his affair is in a 'winner takes all' political fight with a rival that could remove him from politics forever. All of this in the first couple of chapters.

Then, Jesus appears. The story only calls him 'The Stranger' but it is clear by his words who the author is hinting it is. That is when I thought the story went south. It was clear that the author was trying to push his version of Christianity. While he has every right to do that, I was saddened when what could have been a great story turned in to a theological teaching.

Before you go negative and say that I disagree with the teaching and say that the book was bad for that reason, I would have said the same thing if it had agreed with my beliefs. Any time you use your platform to try to indoctrinate, I do not care for it. When the book is in the story it is great, but whole chapters where a theology of everyone is saved and I was wanting the book to end and soon.

Who should read? I would only recommend this if you can work around the preaching. As I said before, the story is very gripping as the stranger is urging people to put down the guns even though a World War seems to be approaching. Who is healed and who is not by the stranger leads to interesting questions. The idea of an 'eye for an eye' is even talked about in an interesting way. If you cannot get passed the teachings, then I would not suggest it for you.

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Review: The 49th Mystic

The 49th Mystic by Ted Dekker
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an ARC of this book from Interviews and Reviews and the publisher, Revel. What follows is an honest review.


The 49th Mystic is some heavy reading. The physical copy of the book that I received is 400 pages long. So in the physical sense it is a heavy book. In the story it tells, it is heavy as well. I usually put who I think would like the book at the end of my reviews. I am moving that to the top this time.


This book is written in the style of allegorical style of the Narnia books by C. S. Lewis. That is the last comparison I will make to Lewis here. The book is heavy with scripture references. So many in fact, the author has notes at the end of the book to tell us where to find them. For that reason, I would only recommend this to Christian friends. My only complaint with the book was if the author thought about his audience. I am sure that Mr. Decker being a bestselling author did. If he is writing to the Christians, he is preaching to the choir. I am not sure that non-Christians would get the references and if they do not, the book would become unreadable.


Story is very gripping. Rachel is a blind girl who lives in the small town of Eden, Utah. It seems that Eden was built in a valley. with only one way in and out. The man in charge of the town has built it so that when the apocalypse comes, he will shut the road down and the town will be self sufficient. Rachel, being blind has developed echo location, clicking and listening for the echos to see things. Yes this is real, visit ted.org and search for it, you will find a talk by a man who is blind and does it. So days she is blind but has some mobility. Nights, when she sleeps, she has dreams. Dreams where she can see and is being chased by an evil shadow man.


One day, when an experiment to bring her sight back does not seem to work, she is visited by a man named Vlad Smith (has to be the bad guy with a name like Vlad) who pricks her arm and now she can see. Her dreams have changed. She now sees clearly, but has been transported to a world not like ours. We get the impression it is set in her future. It is in this setting when she begins to see her purpose. She has been the one, called by Justin (obviously Jesus) to save Eden from Vlad but also restore harmony between the three groups of people in this time. To do this she will have to discover the five seals and meet the other mystics (48 of them?), but her time is short. The three groups of people are obvious if one knows Church history. They are not so clear if you do not.


When she falls asleep in one area she wakes up in the other. I kind of felt sorry for her after a while. She never really slept. At times, she doubted the other existence was real, only a dream, until she woke up in it.


I did enjoy the book. It was a gripping story. I did not like how it ended, set up for the next book, that it is a pet peeve of mine. As big as this book was I would say that another book was needed and the author wrapped up as many loose ends as he reasonably could.


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Review: Love, Forgive, Never Give Up!: 3 Powerful Ways To Turn Tragedy Into Triumph, Adversity Into Advantage, And Live Your Life at the Next level

Love, Forgive, Never Give Up!: 3 Powerful Ways To Turn Tragedy Into Triumph, Adversity Into Advantage, And Live Your Life at the Next level by Bill Hargenrader
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Bill and Linda have written an excellent book on surviving this thing called life that we must make it through. There are three steps they explain in more detail than I can here. Through each step personal stories are shared from their own life experience.

Love - you must start by loving yourself. Once you love self you can start to love others.
Forgive - like love, forgive yourself. Somethings happen to you that you cannot control. Forgive yourself for thinking that it is your fault. Forgiveness of self leads to forgiveness to others.
Never give up - probably hardest step. One that is nessary or we migrate back to the other two being needed again.

As noted before, these are highlighted by the stories of the author's on lives. This is not theory these people have lived it. They have put into words what I have tried to help people in churches I have attended.

That brings up another point. Usually when I am wrapping up a review I give recommendations of who should read it. This could be read by all ages. Everyone needs to learn these lessons. However, I would caution my Christian friends. While reading the first half I suspected the authors of having new age beliefs. About half way through and for a little while afterward that was confirmed. We disagree on the religious nature and that is ok. What is important is the lessons that they teach. It is important enough that these things need to be taught. I have been a group facilitator in a church where these concepts were taught. Please do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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The Machine by Craig Lea Gordon

The Machine by Craig Lea Gordon


​The Machine is more of a booklet. It is a short story that coud have been so much more. It has a great premise. A living machine that can give you anything you desire. A man who was told not to build it and did it anyway. The horror that it could bring is clearly shown here.

I will say it was a good story of how man can lose what he started in in the end play God.

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Review: Pineapple Disco: A Pineapple Port Mystery: Book Six

Pineapple Disco: A Pineapple Port Mystery: Book Six by Amy Vansant
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

​The latest in Amy Vansant's series of Pineapple Port books is a change of pace. For once Charlotte is not investigating a murder case. She is looking into a missing person. The problem is that the request comes for a person who does not know the name or address of the person.

I get ahead of myself. If you have not read any of this series I recommend you do. You do not need to in order to understand the story. Any backstory is added in as needed. However, the backstory goes like this. Charlotte's mother died and she was sent to live in Florida with her grandmother. Gram lives in a retirement community called Pineapple Port. Gram dies leaving our hero an orphan. She is allowed to continue to live there with the neighbors taking turns at taking care of her. Now she is 20 something woman who lives in an area with senior citizens. Because she keeps getting pulled into murders she decides to become a private investigator.

In this book she is called on to find a man that a former resident of Pineapple Port has been flirting with on her daily walk. He has been wearing a t-shirt each day with one word on it. Will. You. Go . Out. With. Me. ?

The day the woman is about to respond with her shirt, he does not show. While this might sound like a dull story, it does involve a hit-woman, drugs, an underground disco for senior citizens, and stuff that if I told you about it, it would be spoilers.

While she is not investigating a murder, that is not to say there is not murders taking place. For that reason, if it was a movie I would give it a PG rating. There is no other real problems with the book. I could recommend it to any reader who likes a good mystery. It is in the vein of the cozy mysteries but it is not what I would call one as it is not quite in that mode.

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Review: Capturing Freedom

Capturing Freedom by Angelique Conger
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

​I did receive an ARC of this book. I purchased a copy as well to support the author.

Capturing Freedom is the second book of a series by Angelique Conger. The series follows two children, grandchildren of Adam and Eve, in the time of the Bible. Man has fallen by this time and are following a collection of Gods. Nat has been kidnapped and sold to a series of evil slave owners. Because of his knowledge of reading he has worked his way up to the personal servant of high priest of one of the Gods. His sister, Ziva, was a little bit luckier. She was bought as a child to replace the child of a wealthy man. The young girl who had passed away when she was involved in an accident in town with her mother. Mother survived but not for long. The father kept her, not as a slave, but as a daughter. All of this is told in the first book and is back storied in quite nicely.

In this book, ZIva is expecting her first child, and then several more. Nat has committed himself to a young woman before the God Jehova. When the sneak time together, hard to do when you are a slave, she finds that she is with child. Any child born to a slave woman belongs to the master so they do not want this child born there. Nat, working with Ziva and her father work together to get the pregnant woman to be free. Meanwhile, the home of Ziva is attacked. If it had been an army it would have been easy. But disease is running through her home.

Ms. Conger blends the stories together quite well. Even though we can guess the ending (look at the title of the book) it still is interesting how we get there. This is a clean book that I would have no problem suggesting to any age. It is purely fiction, we do not know who lived at these time, or how their societies worked. I can imagine that this was the way of life for these people quite easily.

I recommend this book to any who are looking for a Biblical times story. If a movie, it would be rated PG for some scenes of violence, Nat being flogged is one of them. Enjoy.

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Review: The Lowdown

The Lowdown by Erik Carter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an ARC of this book. I am providing an honest review.

The story takes place in a time that I grew up in. Though I am from the Boston area I had ties to New Orleans where this story takes place. The characters are like of the type of people I knew of the era. Prejudice was king not just in the south.

I was surprised to find out this book was part of a series. It had none of the signs that show it was. There was no heavy handed explanations of what had gone on it previous stories.

Prejudice, a KKK type of organization, an alphabet organization I had never heard of all are a part of this story. Dale is an agent of the BEI, an organization that is part of the DOJ. If a crime has an aspect of history to it, Dale is called in. Percy, a DOJ agent is partnered with him. Dale is white, Percy is black. While it does not bother them,the 1970's era that the book takes place in has a lot of people who do not like one or the other of them, sometimes both.

The KKK type of organization is out to flood cities in the south with joints laced with a drug that will kill them. Of course they are targeting the black population. Our heroes must find a way to stop them, even if it means working with the drug sellers.

Action was good, there was a fair amount of killing so I could not suggest this book for younger population, older teens would be OK. A movie like rating would be PG13. If you are in the need for a good thriller, I would pick this book up.

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Review: Hear Me Cry

Hear Me Cry by Amanda J. Evans
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an ARC of this book. What follows is an honestreview.

The author has taken an old Irish folktaleabout the banshee and recreated it in a world of fairies and humans. Faries are not the Tinker Bell type of fairies but more of the type that has been created in the fantsy books that have come out lately.

The story is engaging, charachters are real, and they stick to the way that they were written and do not deviate at all. There was one point in the story that did not make a lot of sense, but I feel the author used it as a way to move the story along.

The book is relativly short but it fits the style of the story.

Children might enjoy the story but parent should be aware of an itimate scene between the fairy and the human that gets a little graphic,
Recomeded for older teens though adults. If you like fantsy stories this might be for you.

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Review: Crosscurrents: Would you kill your brother to save yourself?

Crosscurrents: Would you kill your brother to save yourself? by Tom Bierdz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an ARC of this book. What follows is an honest review.

Cross currents is an enjoyable thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat through the book. This is the forth book by the author that I have read and have enjoyed each one of them.

Two brothers separated at a young age because of the mistakes of an abusive father. One goes on to become a crusading senator. The other gets amensia and becomes hit man for hire. As we wander through the life that each one has, and the people around them who love and support them, we see how intertwined their lives really are.

The big problem is that the men they have grown up to be are on a colision course when the crusading senator had become the target of the hitman when a contract is taken out on him. A knock on the head heals the amnesia, but is it to late.

Mr. Bierdz has written well developed characters. There are no throw aways here. Even the minor charachters are given something to flesh them out. All of the people stay true to their identies. Even when the times are frighing to them, they stay true to themselves.

I would recommend this to older teens and above. Obviously because when you have a hit man you have violence. There is also a degree of sexual activity. For the most part it is not written in heavy detail, but it is scattered throughout the book. If a movie I would say it would get an R rating. Let that be your guide if you would read it or not. I have enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good thriller.

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Review: Coding Projects in Python

Coding Projects in Python by DK Publishing
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I got a review copy form the publisher through NetGalley.

This is an excellent book for children. As I teach a college class it helped me in learning Python ahead of a class that I am teaching in Introduction to programming.

For children it is a step by lesson on learning programming. Python is used for its simplicity. Fun projects are done with an eye to keeping children interested. If I had a young child who showed an interest in programming I would definitely have them look at this. Python is easily available for all systems and though they talk about a specific editor, any editor would work.

Recommend for anyone wanting to learn Python, even adults.

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Review: GHOST COACH

GHOST COACH by Duane Lindsay
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Available at Amazon
I received an ARC of this book. What follows in an honest review.

This the second of a series. It can be read with no knowledge of the first one as I have done.

What if you were a con man and wanted to pull of the ultimate con. How long would you wait to pull the trigger on it.

That is the premise of Ghost Coach. Can the best con man (Leroy) ever pull off the best con ever, even though it is his daughter (Dani) wanting to do it more. Together, along with the people they bring in, they are the best team to do the job.

I never thought about what would go into a con like this. All of the details that have to be done so that they can hook the person. Yet this team made all the work look easy. Even though at almost every step, something got in their way. There are many twists and turns in the story. There are sad moments and happy moments as well as ones that make you wonder if these con men (and woman) are really the good guys.

I would recommend this book to any who like a light hearted story about how people really want to swindle themselves.

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Review: An Alarm to the Unconverted

An Alarm to the Unconverted by Joseph Alleine
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Someone told me that I should read some of the classics of Christan Literature. I thought, OK, let's give it a try. Over a year ago I decided to search online for classic Christian Literature and came up with a site called 'Classics On The Wing' (http://www.onthewing.org/Classics.html). I grabbed the first one on the list (at that time) and started to read the book.

I do not often give a book less than 3 starts. I can always learn something and nobody is that bad a writer that they do not deserve less than three stars. However, this is one of those cases. If you follow me on Goodreads you will see that I started this book over a year ago. At about the 1 year anniversary I decided that I needed to find a way to finish it as it sat for the longest time at 50%. Though no one can find Mark Twain ever saying it, a quote that is credited to him was something I had to do to finish this book: "Eat a Live Frog Every Morning, and Nothing Worse Will Happen to You the Rest of the Day". Who ever said it, never read this book. I basically had to force myself to read 5% every day so that I could finish the book.

I am sure that it is the time that this was written but the author has a one track mind. You are a sinner, you are going to hell, repent and show that you are Christian by your acts. Chapter one told us this in about 30 ways. Chapter two was more of the same. I remember reading this and thinking I did not know there was that many ways to be told I was going to hell. I am not discounting the message, but if I was a non-Christian reading this book, I would not have been influenced by it in the least. If you tell me 100 times I am a sinner in the tones that this author used, well, I most likely would have told you that you will see me there as well.

I had someone say, 'well that is just the way that Puritan authors were. That may be so. He wrote the book in 1652.

I cannot recommend this book to anyone of today's times. It is a heavy theological subject or how depraved we are as sinners, but does not offer help to those who would be converted, just more condemnation.

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Review: The 14 stations of The Cross

The 14 stations of The Cross by Mimi L. Thompson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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I received an ARC copy of this book. What follows is an honest review.

When I first saw the advertisement for this book it caught my interest. The Stations of the Cross was a tradition from when I was growing up in the Catholic Church. As a child, I was told to walk around these sculptured pictures on the walls of the church I went to. Each one of them reflected a time in the events of the death of Jesus. It is hard to get a grade schooler to think of anything like that for more than 10 minutes, and we were supposed to do at least that much at each station. It soon became just look at them and act like I was paying attention while thinking about my favorite books or TV shows. By my teens, when I would have a better understanding of them, it was just a tradition to me. Now I am in my 60's and can see the significance of the stations but as I am no longer a Catholic, I have no place to practice them. Only a few of the high order protestant churches practice them, not that I have attended. So, reading this was an interesting exercise I was to embark on.

The book advertisements said it was to be a devotional. I am not sure who it was a devotional for. To explain, I heard someone ask a preacher why he wanted to put his sermons on a Christian radio station. His reply was he wanted to reach the lost and lead them to Jesus. The person than asked him why he was not going to secular stations because only Christians listen to Christian radio stations. So, to the author, who did you hope to reach with this devotional. If it was the Christians, I am not sure many will read it because of the vulgarity of speech from so many of the people including Jesus himself. If you are trying to reach the lost with this language, and I do understand that you would want to do that, the fact it is a devotional will turn them off.

The book is basically the view of 14 events on the path to the crucification. Each story is told from one person's point of view so we have 14 points of view. In this respect, it was well done. It is hard to flesh out that many people and not get lost in the process. These people are real people, who had doubts and fears and were touched by Jesus in so many ways. We even get to look at Jesus point of view as why He was doing this. It is a good set of stories, and it should be marketed a different way in my thoughts.

Spoiler, Jesus does die in the end. Yes, I know, I may have ruined the story for you. Even though the stations end with Jesus being taken down from the cross this story does not. It follows through to the resurrection and the second coming of Jesus. I point this out because I would not want Christian friends to get the idea that I support the theology behind the book. In the end, all go to heaven, sinners and saints. I will not argue if his theology or mine is correct. I kind of guessed we were going there by about the middle of the book, and there it was at the end. I will not mark it down on the stars, theology is not what a review should be about, how it is written is what should be looked at.

Because of the language and the violence I would only suggest this book to older teens and above. While well written be aware that there is some language in it that as a Christian some may be offended by. I am not, that is the type of people who Jesus hung with. I am putting it here to let people know it is there. If it was a movie it would most likely get a soft R or hard PG because of the violence and language.


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Review: Werewolf M.D.: A Paranormal Shifter Doctor Romance

Werewolf M.D.: A Paranormal Shifter Doctor Romance by Taylor Haiden My rating: 4 of 5 stars Available at Amazon

I was provided an ARC copy of this book. What follows is an honest review.When you get to read ARCs you get a lot of different styles of books, and even some mixed ones at that. This is one of those mixed ones. One part horror/fantasy. One part romance. I think you get the idea. While this is not my style of book, I will still give it a review based on the writing. Isabella is a nurse trainee from a small Kansas town in a backwoods town in Louisiana to do her nurse residency. Dr. Roman is a doctor from there who, with the skill he seems to have could be practicing in the big city, but wants to stay right where he is at. All the woman seem to fall in love with him, including Isabella. He is what you call a player. Everyone tells Isabella that Doctor Roman is not goodnews. You might think she would listen and pay attention. Might not be much of a story if she did. She just has to know how he is healing these patients who are incurable. Without giving too much of a spoiler, you might look at the name of the book for an idea. The book is written well. There are no obvious plot holes. characters seem to be well written with a good ballance of self preservation and desire to be in a loving relationship. While the book was enojoyable, there were several intimate scenes. If you do not mind that or can read around things you may enjoy the book. Because I cannot half stars and it has one of the things I hate, I had to drop a star. I do not mind setting up for a sequel. It mind cliffhangers. Other than that, it was an enjoyablet story of a type I do not normally read. View all my reviews

Review: A Stitch in Space

A Stitch in Space by Christopher Lansdown
My rating: 0 of 5 stars

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I received an ARC of this book. What follows is an honest review.

Since I had previously read another book by this author, I was really wanting to read this one. His previous book that I ha read, 'The Dean died over winter Break', was an interesting joining of mystery and philosophy. This book seemed to be very heavy on the philosophy. the basic story is of a group of passengers catching a ride on a cargo ship. along with the crew and the robots this had the makings of what could be an interesting story.

Our point of view is from Father Xris. a Catholic priest who in the story represents all of Christianity in this future time. I had a slight problem with this. As I am a Christian who is not Catholic I did not agree with a few of his views. Most of his thoughts on the subject were OK. I suspect the authors did not consider other faiths.

My other main problem as I had stated before was the heavy philosophy. While there was some action in the early story it was mostly there so Father Xris could explain philosophy to any of the passengers or crew who would listen. It was 2/3 of the book before any real action took place.

The writing was clear. The characters well developed. The action when we got it was good and well done. It was just too much philosophy.

I look forward to what this writer can do in the future. The book is acceptable for most who would read it. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to read about a priest in space.


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Review: Journaling with Jesus: How to Draw Closer to God

Journaling with Jesus: How to Draw Closer to God by Carol Round
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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Carol Round has written an excellent book about journaling. I have tried to journal many times in my life and have always wound up stopping because a lot of it got repetitive. Most of what I wrote was like a diary more than a journal. What I needed was a kick to move out of that and into something better. This book was it.

The author takes the time to lay out what is called prayer journaling. Each day, as a Christian, we should take time to read the Bible and pray. So often our prayers never seem to be answered. In journalling them out to God, we now have a written form that we can return to later and see that they really are answered. In reading the Bible, so often we forget what we read. Again, doing this helps us to be able to return later when times of need come up. The journalling can also be done with devotionals that you read.

My only problem with the book is the audience. I am a male, and for the most part the cover implies that this book is for everyone. While a few male authors are cited, the book is clearly written with a female in mind. This is not a complaint, as I can clearly learn from anything written for anyone. It is pointed out in case someone did have a problem with it.

I would recommend this book to any of my Christian friends wanting to know more about praying and journaling together.


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Review: Money: Physics and Distributive Justice

Available at Amazon. Money: Physics and Distributive Justice by Oded Kafri
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

“GIVE me a one-handed economist,” demanded president Truman. “All my economists say, ‘on the one hand...on the other'”. This book is not like that as it takes a stand, I am just not sure where the stand is.

I received a review copy of this book, what follows is an honest review.

I thought that the college classes I had taken in micro and macro economics and physics would have prepared me for this book. I think I came out a little bit more confused then when I went in.

I am not sure where the author was going with this. At times it read like a textbook. At times it read like a series of blog posts. Sometimes he seemed to be talking about politics, other times it was deep into the subject. At places he said, if this confuses you do not read it. Then he turns around and develops off of that.

If you have a strong background in physics, not the entry level kind, this book might make a little bit more sense to you that it did to me. In which case, you might enjoy it. I am not sure who else I could recommend it to.

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Review: Graciousness: Tempering Truth with Love

Graciousness: Tempering Truth with Love by John Crotts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
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I was not sure How much I would like this book. I liked the topic but then I read it was by a gentleman from the reformed branch of Christianity. Most of the people who identify themselves as reformed tend to be rigid in their thinking, I was seriously questioning if I could agree with this man at all.

I was pleasantly surprised to find he felt a lot like I did. We may be in the right, but our actions make us in the wrong when it comes to christian actions. The author does not tell us to abandon our beliefs. He tells us to act in love to each other. While this is important to do to all, it is important to the unbeliever as well.

While the author and I will most likely' agree on theology, we can agree that the love walk is important.

I would recommend this book to all Christians as a wake up Call to the way we look to the world when we fight and bicker.

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