Wine and War
If you read this blog you know how much I enjoy wine. You probably also realize from my book reviews how much I love history. And yes, I’ve read lots of history books about wine….
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #2
If you know me well and looked through my 25 most influential books, it would be fairly obvious which author is missing from the list. J.R.R. Tolkien. I was in junior high school when somebody…
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God is Red
Other than my top 25 list of books, most of my book reviews are on a separate page of this blog because readers would be overwhelmed getting updates all the time. And it would turn…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #3
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” Hardly the uplifting or encouraging words you might expect from a book that influenced my life. But Dietrich Boenhoeffer didn’t pull any punches when…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #4
C.S. Lewis is one of my all time favorite authors. This list of 25 books that influenced my life could probably include several of his writings, but that would be unimaginative. So I have chosen…
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Everybody Should Read This Book
Here’s a book that almost everybody I know should read. Henri Nouwen was brilliant, of course. He gave a talk on fundraising and somebody had the good sense to publish it as A Spirituality of…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #5
Few books stand the test of time. But for over 125 years Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has been able to entertain readers, irritate people, and force all of us to reflect on…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #6
It was 1999 when my father gave me the book Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by legendary Intel CEO Andrew Grove. Dad’s comment to me was,…