My friend Lynn told me about the huge hit The Martian
If you’re looking for a fun summer book to read as the season winds down, this one is highly recommended.
My friend Lynn told me about the huge hit The Martian
If you’re looking for a fun summer book to read as the season winds down, this one is highly recommended.
What is essential? It’s an age old question, but all the more important in our hurried world. Obviously the answer is different for each person — in my world my wife and family only take a back seat to my relationship with God. Well, they are suppose to anyway. But whatever the personal answer, it’s an important question and one we have to answer….or it will answer itself.
Greg McKeown has dedicated his career to asking and answering this question. His latest book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
My friend Kurt suggested the Thomas Merton book No Man Is an Island
So what do you know about the Lusitania? A week ago if you asked me about it about all I would have said is, “It was a big ship. It sank sometime around World War I. Lots of people died. Didn’t the Germans sink it?”
I know, pitiful.
Erik Larson, author of numerous bestsellers and an amazing storyteller of true history, wrote Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
At first I was going to suggest the book as a good summer …
The next book in my Journey of Hope series is a collection of Henri Nouwen writings gathered into a book called Seeds of Hope. Edited by Robert Durback, the book is now out of print and only used copies are available. Not sure what the publisher is thinking. You can’t find a better collection of Nouwen’s works.
In keeping with the pattern of past reviews, I’ll post quotes from the book:
“…often someone’s careful and honest articulation of the ambiguities, uncertainties, and painful conditions of life gives us new hope.”
“…our first task is not to offer information, advice, …
When I asked about books on hope, my friend Renee suggested Finding Faith in the Dark: When the Story of Your Life Takes a Turn You Didn’t Plan
D’Aun and I have had our share of “extreme wine” experiences. From staying with a friend at his chateau in Bordeaux, to our recent day with the owner of Vine Hill Ranch, it’s been a journey of discovery. We also had an incredible experience at Realm Cellars — probably the best wine tasting we ever had. If you want to splurge, buy a bottle of Realm.
So what is extreme wine? Mike Veseth wrote Extreme Wine: Searching the World for the Best, the Worst, the Outrageously Cheap, the Insanely Overpriced, and the Undiscovered
Can we all just admit David McCullough is the greatest living historian? His books combine the scholarly work of a brilliant academic with the comfortable style of a story your grandparents would tell. His latest, The Wright Brothers
We all know the Wright Brothers were the first to fly. We all know it was in Kitty Hawk. But there is so much more to their story, and McCullough weaves the tale of family, friendship, diligence, success, fame, and struggle into a personal portrayal of Wilbur and Orville (and their sister Katharine). Without ever minimizing the …
