Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book review: Furious Hours, by Casey Cep (Amazon / Book Depository) Seventeen years had passed since she'd published To Kill a Mockingbird and twelve since she'd finished helping her friend Truman Capote report the crime story in Kansas that became In Cold Blood. Now, finally, she was ready to try again. Novelist Harper Lee, long beloved... Continue Reading →
Book review: Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson (Amazon / Book Depository) Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. I avoided reading Just Mercy, to some extent, because I knew it was going to be a painful book... Continue Reading →
Book review: Barracoon, by Zora Neale Hurston (Amazon / Book Depository) Though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also. And because the moment in which we live is all the time there really is, we can keep going. It may be true, and often is, that every person we hold dear... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Man From the Train, by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James (Amazon / Book Depository) "He was a tiny man who cast a huge and terrible shadow, and he knew that, and in his mind he was the size of his shadow." Between 1898 and 1912, an unbelievably large number of families... Continue Reading →
Book review: Salvation on Sand Mountain, by Dennis Covington "Snake handling didn't originate back in the hills somewhere. It started when people came down from the hills to discover they were surrounded by a hostile and spiritually dead culture." At some point last year, I read an article, I think either about a preacher getting arrested or else bitten and... Continue Reading →
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