Parental Choices on Reading and Viewing
My wife has some thoughts on this topic.
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Tom Sims is Cheering You On
Sometimes when you’re a bit of a visionary or an ordinary dreamer, and people look at you with a tolerant look that tells you they believe you’re doomed for failure, it’s nice to have someone do a little bit of cheering. Tom Sims does it in poetic form.
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Book: The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell
Somehow because I use a bunch of long words and write on weird theological topics, people sometimes expect me to like only “serious” books on “serious” topics. Nothing could be further from the truth. I like fun and humor. I’m reading nearly constantly, and I like books that I can pick up when I’m really…
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Writing Lessons from the Bible
I located this post through preparations for the Christian Carnival #179. Due to the time frame requirements on posts I couldn’t include it in the carnival, but I wanted to call attention to it in any case, as it’s a good post from an interesting blog. From Savvy Writer: Top Three Writing Lessons from the…
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Civilian Targets
[This is a work of fiction. The people, places, and events are entirely products of my imagination. I have used Names appropriate to the United States for the players, but by leaving out place names and other signs of ethnicity it is my intention that this not look like any particular war. It could be…
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The Birth of Traitor Tad
[The following is a work of fiction, as would be obvious even without this note. It is copyright © by Henry E. Neufeld, 2007] I wake up, but I don’t recognize where I am. For a moment I think I’m in the barracks back home, but there is a strange light. Slowly it begins to…
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The “Evil” Chronicles of Narnia
I can’t help calling attention to this page from the Balaam’s Ass web site for the rampant paranoia, lack of humor, and failure to comprehend represented throughout. The following opening says it all: John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died on the same day. They all went to the same place. Kennedy…
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Book: Raining Cats and Dogs
I’ve been missing in action for a couple of weeks, as I was finishing a manuscript (non-fiction, When People Speak for God), but I haven’t quit reading. I just completed Laurien Berenson’s Raining Cats and Dogs, a Melanie Travis Mystery. I picked up the book because it has to do with animals though I didn’t…
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Book: The Christmas Candle
Why am I talking about a Christmas book when it’s nearly June? Well, my wife got it from the library and recommended it to me, and I have never really cared when I read seasonal literature, so bear with me for a few moments on this. I generally don’t like cute little inspirational books. Their…
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Book: A Ruinous Wind
I looked back at previous notes and found a brief note in this general post in which I am not too excited about Pilkington after reading a previous work, The Maiden Bell. I did indicate that I would probably read something else by the same author, but wasn’t in a hurry. Now I have, and…