Archive for the 'Tuesday’s Tempting Reads' Category

Real Solutions for Busy Moms

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason […]

300 – 400

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

More of the world’s greatest books.  I managed to come up with another ten this week.  Are you doing any better than I am? Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) Wikipedia Strange Interlude (1928) PGA Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Wikipedia Summa Theologica (1265) PG Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Wikipedia Summer (1917) Freeread Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Wikipedia Tamburlaine the Great (1587) […]

Apologetics for a New Generation

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason […]

The Next 100

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Back to that list of the world’s greatest books.  I managed to come up with another ten for my personal list.  William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia Measure for Measure (1603) PG Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824) Wikipedia Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) PGA Various (-) Wikipedia Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1714) Ovid (43bc-17) Wikipedia Metamorhoses (8) Franz Kafka […]

More of the World’s Greatest Books

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Last week I gave you the listing for the first 100 books.  Here is the second 100.  I managed to add another seven to the list I’ve read.  How are you doing? Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Wikipedia Erewhon (1872) PG Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Wikipedia Essay on Man (1733) PG Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) Wikipedia Essays […]

The Western World’s Greatest Books

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

I did it!  I found a book list that has books on it that I’ve actually read.  This list is from Project Gutenberg. I will share this list of of over 500 of the world’s greatest books in five installments.  The entire list can be very intimidating, so I’m going to share about 100 books […]

It’s a Green Thing

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason […]

Top 100 Book List

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I’ll admit it.  I’m a book worm.  I love to read.  When I was a kid we had a rule.  No books at the table.  Since I come from a family of book worms, I have since figured out the rationale behind the rule.  We could have gone for days without speaking to each other if […]

Finding God in the Shack

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason […]

Obama Sends Dow Down

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Obama’s inaugural address did nothing to calm the fears of investors.  After hearing Obama’s speech, they went back to unloading stocks.  This in turn sent the Dow down more than 330 points.  Once again the Dow Jones industrial average is below 8000.  Obama’s speech did nothing to ease concerns about our country’s struggling economy.  Personally, […]