Two Streams
Jesus told His followers: The world hates you. I’ve been thinking about that. Is it true? Surely, not everyone hates…
Intimate insights into a devout community – review of the Gilead trilogy by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead – Deep but a bit tedious This is a very unusual book in that it doesn’t follow any recognised structure….
Battling Prejudice
They invited me to their house-warming party, though I’d never met them. They aren’t even married. Loud rock music greeted…
Intriguing insight into Neapolitan girls’ lives and feelings but too long and too complicated – Review of My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
This book is captivating from the start and very well written. We feel we get to know unfathomable Lila in…
A war story with a difference – Review of All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
This very sensitively written book brilliantly captures the character and emotional struggles of the main players through a series of…
Poetically autobiographical – Review of ‘As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning’ by Laurie Lee
A very personal, sensitively written account of a naive young Englishman’s encounters with ordinary people as he spends a year…
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
This book is amazing in terms of its complexity and vivid action. The main characters are very well developed and…
Very moving, very realistic – Review of The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
How is it that a story, in which hardly anything happens except for Harold nursing his blisters, can be so…
Does God care about nations?
Each morning, I read the Daily Moravian Bible Texts – first in German (Losungen), then in English. Both today’s Old…
Sabre of Honor by William Simpson
Set in Napoleon’s heyday, this is a seemingly endless series of battles – often recounted in gory detail – interspersed with…
Light of Eidon by Karen Hancock – an exciting, cruel, spiritual fantasy
This is a complex adventure of political and religious rivalry, set in several nations of a fantasy world where supernatural…
Almost – but not quite – incredible. A review of ‘Pompeii’ by Robert Harris
Robert Harris paints a vivid picture of life around the bay of Naples just before Vesuvius erupts. The engineer Attilius…