The Return

Review : Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky Broadway Books 2010 What a trip that was, too!   Exhausting is the first word that comes to mind to describe this book, but in the same way a good workout at the gym might be exhausting.     I came to this book with little more than the knowledge that David Foster Wallace (DFW) wrote books, but because I had read one of those samples from an online retailer I went for it anyway.   Glad I did now.   Why? Because it’s like listening in a conversation between Lipsky and Wallace, both writers, both young, and both trying to get something from the other.   The maneuvering was fun to watch.   Insights into what it takes to make it in the book world were excruciating.   So if you think you can write this would be an excellent book to read to see if you can make it in that world.   Eye opening, to say the leas...

Review: God Is with You Everyday, 365 Day Devotional Max Lucado Thomas Nelson 2015 Once again Max Lucado puts forth a devotional book for his readers and maybe some that are new to his writings.   This is a devotional reading for the year organized by month and day.   Each day is an excerpt or based on one of his other publications.   The book I received has a padded front cover and a ribbon marker.   I like ribbons so that gets a mention.   Also it is a nice size and handles well. What about the content?   Like the Lucado I’ve read before, he can get serious with you, and at other times be lighter to read without losing the content.   That is a plus, I think, because a steady diet of one or the other causes me to put a devotional book down and forget where I left it.    I do recommend this devotional overall.   Take a peak and see what you think.    This book was provided by the publisher in return ...

Review: More Than Conquerors: An Interpretations of the Book of Revelation, 75 th Anniversary Commemorative Edition William Hendriksen Baker Books 1940, 1967 This book is an anniversary edition commemorating 75 years of “uninterrupted printing history” according to the information from the back cover.   I don’t know how many other interpretations like this can claim that honor.   Within the biographical tribute the reader will find that a publisher named Herman Baker “presented the first trade copies…to the author in July 1939.” (7)   This is indeed a commemorative edition.    Given the age of this work I am sure scholarly reviews must be available for those that want to engage in a conversation with the text Hendriksen presents.   This book is accessible to all readers, not just the Biblical scholar, and I enjoyed reading this even though I found his interpretation much different from any I had read or heard presented before.  ...