Another charming bit of rather harmless fun through the eyes of Mma Ramotswe, written in McCall Smith’s unique voice. The somewhat moralistic tone seems appropriate in the portrayed culture.
The menfolk come off with a few scars, but that’s OK.
I’ve just attended a very inspiring writers’ weekend with Adrian and Bridget Plass and Sheridan Voysey at Scargill House in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. The theme was Panning for Gold – identifying the really precious moments in our lives with a view to creating a personal memoir. A task we were assigned was to write…
Heinzpeter Hempelmann versteht den philosophischen Wandel von der Moderne zur Postmoderne sehr gut. Gründlich analysiert er die jeweiligen Annahmen, Auswirkungen, und Streitpunkte. Der Untertitel “Christlicher Wahrheitsanspruch vor den Provokationen der Postmoderne” macht aber klar, dass es ihm um mehr als reine Analyse geht. Die Postmoderne stellt die christliche Sicht der Dinge in Frage, und er will…
This 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…
Releasing Janet, by Alex Banwell We all have a past. We’re all products of our family history. Sometimes an innocent remark or incident triggers a process of discovering as aspect of who we really are, and helps us resolve a long-standing hangup. We knew something of the present from Alex Banwell’s delightful fist book, ‘Just…
The Only Way to What? A provocative start. Followed by a challenging summary: Jesus was not focused on saving sinners from an angry God who is hellbent on making them suffer forever. Jesus was interested in the very opposite: helping us angry, hostile, combative, confused, misguided human beings learn to know, love, and follow a…
