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ByVikHabe mir gestern diesen Vortrag (aus einer Kleingruppenkonferenz von Willow Creek in Illinois im 2005) von BMcL angehört. Nichts revolutionäres, aber das erste Mal, dass ich seine Stimme höre! Er betont die Wichtigkeit von Erzählungen: eine Erzählung hört man lieber zu und versteht man besser als eine theoretische Abhandlung. Aber, was mir wichtig dünkt, ist seine Behauptung,…
Isa’s Daughter by Catherine Byrne
ByVikThis moving book can be read as a series of interlocking romances, but it’s much more than that. Life on the Orkney island of Raumsey is tough after the Great War and the widow Isa, who has returned from Canada with her daughter Annie, is poor and hardly able to maintain the family croft without a…
An Irish Country Doctor and An Irish Country Village by Patrick Taylor
ByGreyowlThese first two books in the Irish Country Books series are light-hearted stories recounting the experiences of freshly qualified Doctor Barry Laverty as he starts working for the larger-than-life, old-school Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly.
Two Streams
ByVikJesus told His followers: The world hates you. I’ve been thinking about that. Is it true? Surely, not everyone hates us. Recently, I have observed two different streams within western society – the ‘Lorders and Hoarders’ and the ‘Carers and Sharers’.
A child’s view of a new world
ByGreyowlBetween the Mountain and the Sea by Gill Kimber When an overworked vicar is posted to a remote island in the South Atlantic, his family faces an entirely new life. Tristan da Cunha’s rough but devout population – a couple of hundred lobster fishermen and their constantly knitting wives – live in simple houses, cultivate potatoes…
Uncanny – a review of The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler
ByVikVogler seems to know all about my novel, Aquila! Or is he saying that all stories are basically the same, whether it’s The Wizard Of Oz, Star Wars or Titanic? Then how can anyone write anything new? [But that would be like arguing that since most sentences consist of a subject, a verb and an…