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Category Archives: Books
Tawni O’Dell’s One Of Us: Shadows Of Home (Book Review)
Psychologist Danny Doyle returns home to his coal-mining roots in Pennsylvania to check on his ailing grandfather, and finds himself embroiled in a serial killer’s machinations to avenge old wrongs in Tawni O’Dell’s fifth novel, One of Us. Eerily similar in … Continue reading
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Tagged harlan coben, hope floats, john connolly, out of the furnace, tawni o'dell, winter's bone
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The Be-Attitudes: Peacemaking or Keeping the Peace? (Sunday’s Sermon Today)
Blessed are the peacemakers,for they will be called children of God.–Matthew 5:9 I’ve always wanted to be a superhero. Whether it was Superman or Luke Skywalker, I wanted to be the person who would defeat evil and make it so … Continue reading
Gregg Hurwitz’s Don’t Look Back: Face Your Fear (Book Review)
Familiar with Gregg Hurwitz’s work on Batman: The Dark Knight (nineteen issues), I dove into his latest thriller, Don’t Look Back, and knocked it out in one sitting. Reading like a movie script, or a Harlan Coben/Linwood Barclay “normal person in an … Continue reading
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Tagged batman, Gregg Hurwitz, The Dark Knight, Trust No One
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William Kent Krueger’s Windigo Island: Born Ogichidaa Stand Against Evil (Book Review)
Intrigued by what I read about William Kent Krueger’s Windigo Island, the thirteenth book in the Cork O’Connor series and his sixteenth overall, I reached out to the author himself and quickly received an autographed advanced copy for review. The series … Continue reading
Michael Sloan’s The Equalizer: The Odds Are Stacked (Book Review)
A month before the film starring Denzel Washington hits the big screen in late September, Michael Sloan’s The Equalizer novel debuts. Based on the character Robert McCall that Edward Woodward played for four seasons in the early 1980s, Sloan’s protagonist services in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Current Events, Movie Reviews, Reviews
Tagged Chloe Moretz, denzel washington, Michael Sloan, Robert McCall
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View From The Shore #3: ‘Unbroken’ On A Rainy Day (A Mustard Seed Musing)
Some days on vacation, the rain just doesn’t want to allow for time at the beach. That’s why there is always a stack of solid beach reads packed, which this year includes The Giver, Marvel’s Infinity, and Terry Hayes’ I Am Pilgrim. But this … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Current Events, Theology
Tagged America, Laura Hillenbrand, Louis Zamperini, POWs, prisoners of war, Unbroken, World War II, Zero Dark Thirty
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James Rollins’ The 6th Extinction (Book Review)
The tenth book in James Rollins’ SIGMA series, The 6th Extinction, finds Gray Pierce, Painter Crowe, Monk Kokkalis, and Lisa Cummings, and a few newbies fighting against time and a resourceful energy to stop the onslaught of a lethal chemical released … Continue reading
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Tagged 6th Extinction, Bloodlines, Eye of God, Gray Pierce, James ROllins, Painter Crowe, SIGMA
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Michael Murphy’s The Yankee Club: Prohibition Age Conspiracy Fires Away (Book Review)
Set in 1933, The Yankee Club is a historically aware thriller that blends the age of Prohibition with a love story and a flair for espionage. The protagonist, Jake Donovan, is a retired gumshoe-turned-novelist who returns to New York with the hopes … Continue reading
Linwood Barclay’s No Safe House: Family First? (Book Review)
Revisiting a previous story isn’t ‘typical’ Linwood Barclay, but in No Safe House, he picks up the story of Terry and Cynthia Archer from No Time For Goodbye. Previously, the Archers worked with a criminal named Vince to find out the truth … Continue reading
What I’ve Been Reading/Best Of 2014…So Far
Having passed the fifty book mark before the end of June, it seemed appropriate to recap a top five for the record. They’re across the board, some by newbies and some by the experts. Half a King. This is just … Continue reading
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