It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. [...]
No Greater Love
May 11
Apartheid isn’t heard often any more. I believe we have an entire generation who doesn’t know this sad part of world history—when South Africa officially sanctioned racial discrimination. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that the official racial divides began to be dismantled.
Set in 1989, with apartheid as the backdrop of No Greater Love by [...]
Classified as a history book, A Century Turns: New Hopes, New Fears by William J. Bennett is not a complete chronicle of United States history during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Instead it is an explanation of both Presidents Bush terms of office, and chronicle of all that was wrong with President [...]
Why We Write About Loss
Mar 29
Liz Allison and Cecil Murphey, authors of Words of Comfort for Times of Loss, tell us why they write about loss.
On the morning of July 12, 1992, my husband, Davey, left home like any other morning—he kissed my forehead and hugged our kids.That afternoon I answered a knock at the door, sensing something wasn’t quite [...]
Thin Places: A Memoir
Feb 14
When I agree to review a book, my goal is to actually read the entire book—whether I like it or not. After I read the first couple of chapters of Mary DeMuth’s new book Thin Places: A MemoirI mentally groaned. Would this be a book which I have to slog through someone’s jaded past that [...]
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Welcome to our book discussion of The Call of Zulina by Kay Marshall Strom. This book is the first in the Grace in Africa series.
We will be using the questions in the book as we talk about this [...]
I gravitate to historical books, fiction or fact. The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great was a natural for me.
Benjamin Merkle provides a compete history of not just the man, but also the culture and society of Britain during the 800s. I learned about Alfred’s family, the conditions of the society, the [...]
The Call of Zulina
Dec 7
I usually take a new book with me when I travel by air. In most cases, I’m able to read going and coming. I usually reserve my flight book just for flying and airport-waiting time. This last flight was different.
I started reading The Call of Zulina (Grace in Africa)after I settled in my seat and [...]
by Marley GibsonCo-authors of Christmas Miracles, from St. Martin’s Press
I am extremely privileged to have the opportunity today to talk to my friend and co-author, Cecil “Cec” Murphey, and to chat about our upcoming book, Christmas Miracles.*
Marley: Cec, thanks for spending some time with me today.
Cec: Marley, it’s great that you could take time away [...]
Green: The Circle-Book Zero
Nov 17
Green: The Circle-Book Zero
by Ted Dekker
Green by Ted Dekker is subtitled “The Circle – Book Zero – The Beginning and The End.” The book’s description say the reader can begin reading The Circle series with Green, or read it as the end of the series. Maybe it works to end the series, but it [...]
