The Return

Review: Healthy Fats, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook: Delicious Recipes to Help Reduce Bad Fats and Lower Your Cholesterol, 5 th Edition Robin P. Loveman, Senior Editor Harmony Books 2015 I love to browse cookbooks, look for new ideas, and read some of the extra narratives related to those recipes.   This particular cookbook caught my eye because I had purchased one of the earlier versions and since misplaced it.   The older one had some good stuff in it, but this one is like a while new world.   I can have tacos, and crepes, and all sorts of yummy desserts now like a brulee.   Vegetables and fruit are still musts, but in new ways.   Green beans and spinach are still out there, but so are edamame and artichokes.   There are sauces to drizzle over nearly any category of food to enhance the flavors and appearance. This is not the regimented cookbook I remember from before.   Beef is back and more recipes for a larger variety of seafood, too. ...

Review: Eleanor Jason Gurley 2016 Crown Publishing This is one fine book!   And it was much more than I expected.   The book description doesn’t come close to the experience.   Maybe that’s why I going on so about this book.   It is an experience rather than a mere novel.    That is after you make it past the first twenty or thirty pages.    A slow start for me, but even that made sense after I traveled farther into this book.   The quote from an unknown author launches the book.   Don’t skip over it.   The characters are in a situation that many of us know either first hand or from being close to those who have been where this family has had to walk.   The author has woven this story into a surreal tale of other dimensions, times, and places without losing any of the credibility and pathos. Yes, I recommend this book.   It’s a read that you will not want to put down.   And after you finished yo...

Review: Jesus Called: He Wants His Church Back Ray Johnston W Publishing Group 2015 Catchy title.   I did notice it and decided to read it.    This author really likes lists!!   Five of this and four of that and 15 of the other.   Even the back cover has a set of bullet points.   The reader does begin not to notice them after a while.   The endorsements included are numerous and stellar.   The narrative is easy to read.   The content except for the last chapter and few anecdotal pieces along the way left me cold.      Why?   The “what’s wrong with the church” books have enumerated repeatedly all the woes and ills that anyone who attends a church or even observes one from afar can see.   What is really needed if you want to write a book is to point folks to the solution.   Would it sell?   Probably not since it’d be too simple and too difficult all at once.   It’d be a rehash of th...