Books


Your Name In a Grisham Novel?

Yes, it can be true! Bid your name into a Grisham novel!
A group of American authors has decided to auction names of characters in their forthcoming novels, in a bid to raise funds for the First Amendment Project.
Using eBay, the authors will auction the character names using the auction portal’s charity listings, Giving Works. [...]

Harry Potter

So, has anyone out there read the Harry Potter books? I haven’t read any of the them, though I did catch about half of the first movie.
The reason I’m asking is because I’ve heard several of my co-workers talking about the new book, some of which even stayed up all night and finished the [...]

Skateboards and Dumpster Trucks

A “deep” thought from Lost in Rooville… Let me set it up first, though. Ransom, a surfer dude, is talking to Jay, a former stock broker who until recently did mission work with orphans in the jungles of Ecuador. Jay has been summoned to a lawyer’s office and fears that he is [...]

Book Review - Blue Like Jazz

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. . . . I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened.
Such is the Author’s Note at the beginning of Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller. Excellent book, one that’s [...]

The Five Love Languages

Thanks to JC’s Atoti for this.
The Five Love Languages is a book by Gary Chapman, a “seasoned marriage counselor [who] says people feel most loved in a marriage in one of five ways: quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch.”

Quality Time refers to spending time together as a couple. People [...]

Don’t Click on the Blue E!

O’Reilly, famous for it’s “In A Nutshell” books, has a book coming out March 2005 entitled Don’t Click on the Blue E!. What’s it about? Take a guess… Yep, it’s about NOT using Internet Explorer. Specifically, it’s about making the switch over to Firefox (which I would recommend everyone do):

For all those [...]

Book Review - “The Da Vinci Code”

I recently finished “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown. I actually listened to it on audio book on the way to West Virginia for the white water rafting trip, rather than reading the book. Unfortunately, the audio book was an abridged version, so some portions of the book were left out. [...]

The Da Vinci Code

Many of you probably have heard of the “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding this novel. For the longest time, I’ve been debating on whether or not I should read it. Obviously, since I’m a Christian and am familiar with the [...]

Book Review - “Flabbergasted”

Wow, this is one of the best books that I have read in quite some time. Flabbergasted, written by Christian fiction newcomer Ray Blackston, is laugh out loud funny (literally!) and a very good read. Only took me a week to finish, I was so into it. Blackston’s writing style is fantastic, [...]