Going Postal by Terry Pratchett My rating: 4 of 5 stars I haven’t read a lot of Pratchett — I think this is only my second one — but I do enjoy reading him for the color and the metaphor. The way he turns a figure of speech on the lathe will frequently leave you …
Review: Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God’s Word Today
Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God’s Word Today by David R. Helm My rating: 4 of 5 stars A good sturdy volume on sticking close to the text. Very helpful for preachers. I am reminded of the time when I was in junior high and my father was leading a bunch of us in an …
Review: SERVILE STATE, THE
SERVILE STATE, THE by Hilaire Belloc My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoyed this book, which was in different measures confused and insightful. The difficulty is that when it was insightful, he would use his own peculiar definitions of terms (e.g. capitalism), and when it was confused, he would apply critiques to socialism that …
Review: We Would See Jesus: Discovering God’s Provision for You in Christ
We Would See Jesus: Discovering God’s Provision for You in Christ by Roy Hession My rating: 4 of 5 stars A classic book of evangelical piety, and very good. I may have read it decades ago, but am glad I read it (again, perhaps) now. View all my reviews
Review: French Leave
French Leave by P.G. Wodehouse My rating: 4 of 5 stars Standard Wodehouse, and lots of fun. View all my reviews
Review: ReLaunch: How to Stage an Organizational Comeback
ReLaunch: How to Stage an Organizational Comeback by Mark Rutland My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a book that the NSA board is reading together. One of the best leadership books I have ever read. View all my reviews
Review: Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences by Leonard Sax My rating: 4 of 5 stars Great information here on the current state of brain science with regard to the differences between boys and girls. Some fascinating stuff here. At the same time, Dr. Sax …
Review: Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is one of the books I put on my “bucket book” list — books that I really ought to have read by this time in my life but, though my own miserable failings, had not. Any how, I finally got this one done. This …
Book of the Month/June 2015
I bought this book, By the People, on the strength of the subtitle, which was “Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission.” Having read it, I want to tell you some of the wonderful things about it, and then talk about a face plant that Murray accomplishes in the last few pages. That face plant is a function …
Review: How Civilizations Die:
How Civilizations Die: by David Paul Goldman My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a book with a lot of surprises, a lot of twists and turns. Goldman makes some questionable assertions here, but this was one of the most fruitful and thought-provoking books I have read in a long time. View all my …