The Return

Review: The Bad Habits of Jesus: Showing Us the Way to Live Right in a World Gone Wrong Leonard Sweet Tyndale House Publishers 2016 Leonard Sweet can be counted on to give his readers a good read.   I think so anyway.   May not like what he has to say or what he says, but the book will be very readable.   He can pour on the academic stuff from time to time, but he generally leaves that for others to do.   He has a way of sneaking up on the reader with a story or something that brings his point home.   Sometimes the point is sharp enough to make you uncomfortable with yourself. The Bad Habits of Jesus he admits was written in record time, six weeks (ix), and some of it he gathered from a crowd-sourcing (x) event on his Facebook page. A new-fangled way of getting material for his book.   Yes, I do look at prefaces and acknowledgements.   Even introductions. As you might suspect Jesus’ bad habits are determined bad only but some tha...

Review: The Lesser Bohemians: A Novel Eimear McBride Hogarth 2016 I had no preconceived notions what expect from this book.   Its other reviews were anywhere from brilliant to not so much so.   The prose style, at least initially, accomplished what I think its purpose was---to show the reader the impressions of a person encountering a new experience.   Short, chaotic type snippets from all directions that begin to take shape as she acclimates to her new surroundings.   Had me thinking of a Beckett novel at times, but less serious.   As the book moves forward the prose becomes more like what the reader is accustomed to except where the experiences are new, overwhelming or in some other way acts to unbalance the status quo.    The book descriptions given in the other reviews and elsewhere sum up the story line.   Young girl in a new town, older guy helping find her way.   Yep, that’s it.   Both of their stories seemed to...