Book Reviews
These posts contain reviews of books and other articles.
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“Alone Against the North” by Adam Shoalts
I first heard about Adam Shoalts — Canada’s Indiana Jones, as one journalist dubbed him — from my wife’s uncle. I was preparing a series of talks for a children’s camp that would all be structured around “adventure.” The angle I was developing was that life with Jesus was the greatest adventure of all, but…
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“An Event, Perhaps” by Peter Salmon
I still remember the year Jacques Derrida died. I was taking a fourth-year continental philosophy class with some friends, and I don’t recall if we were reading Derrida at the time, but he was all over the texts and our prof took it hard. I had grown fond of him myself by then (despite having…
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“Live from New York, A History of SNL” by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
With Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests, James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales have created an exemplar of the oral history form. Even better, it’s on a truly fascinating subject. Although I did not grow up watching much SNL (our family was…
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“I Must Say” by Martin Short
Martin Short can make me laugh just by being on screen. Turns out, having listened to the audiobook recording of his 2014 memoir, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, he can make me laugh off screen too.
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“Born Standing Up” by Steve Martin
Born Standing Up is Steve Martin’s 2007 autobiography tracing how he got his start in stand-up comedy and how he left it in the early 80s, decades later.
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“Thank God It’s Monday” by Mark Greene
Mark Greene’s Thank God It’s Monday is an excellent introduction to the biblical theology of work, inviting the reader into a more evangelistic and openly faithful way of being at work. The highlights of the book are the many stories Greene shares along the way, both from his own life and the lives of others.
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“The Fabric of This World” by Lee Hardy
A review of Lee Hardy’s 1990 book, The Fabric of This World.
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“The Wisdom of Stability” by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
A review of Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s Wisdom of Stability.
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