Best of All by Max Lucado For many years, I never ate eggplant. Every time I had it in a restaurant, it was pithy and bitter and overly chewy to the point of making a dish inedible. I avoided dishes that even had eggplant as an ingredient. Too easy to ruin things with such a …
Category: Book Review
Aug 24
Book Review: In Praise of Stay at Home Moms
In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms by Laura Schlessinger I chose to be a stay-at-home mom, and did so for more than a decade, so it came as a surprise to me that a book dedicated to lauding my decision would piss me off so much. I’m giving it three starts, because I enjoyed reading it. …
Aug 17
Book Review: Love Walked In
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos I think my opinion of this book was colored by the last book I read. The last book I read was about manly men who kill people for a living, live rough, and try not to think about the futility of it. This book is about women …
Aug 13
Book Review: War
War by Sebastian Junger I bought this book on spec, mostly because of the strength of Junger’s other book THE PERFECT STORM, the book by which all other maritime disaster accounts are held up to (and usually found lacking). In WAR, Junger takes on the war in Afghanistan. He follows a platoon for fifteen months …