Author: Gregory Boyle Title: Tattoos on the Heart Publication Info: New York : Free Press, 2010. ISBN: 9781439153024 Summary/Review: Not really a memoir, but more illustrative vignettes from Fr. Greg’s work with gang members in Los Angeles. This beautifully written book is both inspiring and heartbreaking. Inspiring because of the wonderful humanity of the “homies” [...]
Archive for March 31st, 2011
31 Mar
Book Review: Sixty Feet, Six Inches by Bob Gibson & Reggie Jackson
Author:Bob Gibson & Reggie Jackson Title: Sixty Feet, Six Inches Publication Info: New York : Doubleday, c2009. ISBN: 9780385528696 Summary/Review: One of baseball’s greatest pitchers and one of baseball’s greatest hitters – and ones known as great baseball thinkers – sit down and talk about baseball and you have a front row seat. Sounds like [...]
31 Mar
Book Review: One Thousand White Womenby Jim Fergus
Author: Jim Fergus Title: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd Publication Info: New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999. ISBN: 0312199430 Summary/Review: This novel is built on the premise that in 1875 the Cheyenne tribe made an agreement with the Grant administration to bring 1000 white women to their lands as sort [...]
31 Mar
Book Review: The Far Side of the World by Patrick O’Brian
Author: Patrick O’Brian Title: The Far Side of the World Publication Info: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books ; [United States : Distributed by] Borders, [2003], p1994. ISBN: 1402540922 Summary/Review: The tenth book of the Aubrey/Matrin series finds the HMS Surprise rounding Cape Horn and sailing the Pacific in search of an American ship harassing [...]
31 Mar
Book Review: Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
Author: L.M. Montgomery Title: Anne of the Island Publication Info: Books in Motion (1993) ISBN: 1556864612 Summary/Review: The third book of the Anne Shirley series sees Anne off to college on Nova Scotia, studying, making new friends, and setting up a new home. Letters and visits to home emphasize Anne’s growth and change as she [...]
31 Mar
Book Review: Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan
Author: Fred Kaplan Title: Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer Publication Info: HarperCollins Publishers, c2008. ISBN: 9780060773342 Summary/Review: A different approach Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his life and legacy through the lens of his writing. Kaplan contends that Lincoln may be of few Presidents to write his own speeches and probably the last one. In [...]
31 Mar
Retropost: Book Review: Quest for the Living God by Elizabeth A. Johnson (via Panorama of the Mountains)
According to NCR: Thanks to the U.S. bishops’ doctrinal committee … … Quest for the Living God, by Elizabeth Johnson, has shot to the top of Amazon’s best selling “general theology” book list today. Pretty good book if I say so myself. Here’s my review from when I read it two years ago for lent. [...]
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