Book Reviews
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain
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I Like To Read: The Red Pony, A Book Review
I like to read. (And I wish I had more time for it. One day, right?) Left to myself I would read primarily fiction – my favorites are Lee Smith and Sharyn McCrumb, Ron Rash and Appalachian authors in general. But as a former English major in college and current English teacher I feel an obligation to keep up my reading of classic literature. Actually, it’s less an obligation and more a simple desire to keep my mind working in some other direction than diapers and Cheerios and the easiest way to clean my filthy oven. So, I…
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Wasting Time
So I’m pretty sure God doesn’t like facebook, my blog or even the internet in general. Okay. I really don’t believe that. But it might be true that God is not okay with the amount of time I waste on facebook in comparison to the amount of time I spend studying Him. And I kind of doubt He appreciates the number of times I check my blog as compared to the number of times I seek His face. Or the amount of time I spend sitting at the computer compared to the number of times I get away from the computer and actually do the good deeds I am supposed…
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Read This Book
Turn My Mourning Into Dancing by Henri Nouwen I’m thinking about buying this book in bulk and handing it on the street corners. Seriously. It’s that good. (At least, it’s that good to me right now. And I know books are like that. They seem like miniature miracles when the words hit you when you most need them. ) This book is about suffering. And hope. It is about pain. And grief. And grace. And it is about seeing God in the suffering. Nouwen says, “We do not nurse the illusion that we can hopscotch our way through difficulties. For by trying to hide parts of our story from God’s…
