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Going Rogue: An American Life
By Sarah Palin
No good deed goes unpunished. Just ask Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s campaign manager and the guy who pushed Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate. Now, in Palin’s much-hyped book, he’s just a fat, smoking bullet-head who told her to “stick to the script.”
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She Reads . . . Faith
By Kaite Mediatore Stover
Faith-Finding Mission
ReaderGal has been pondering faith lately. Faith is frequently lost and found. It is sought, contemplated, and encouraged. It can be had, but can it be kept? ReaderGal looks for guidance from the following women who have struggled with the same questions.
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He Reads . . . Faith
By David Wright
The Sacred and the Profane
I’ve always enjoyed reading about faith, or, more accurately, I like to read about doubt. It’s the wrestling with doubt that makes most accounts of faith so compelling for all of us poor sinners. Something about combining the sacred and the profane adds relish to both.
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Top 10 Books in Religion & Spirituality: 2009
By Ray Olson
The best adult religion books reviewed since the October, 1, 2008, Spotlight on Religion & Spirituality are presented below. A poetic retelling of a momentous era in Islam leads off the list, while a history of God is third on it. The other eight turn to Christianity past, present, and future.
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Carte Blanche: The Last Taboo?
By Michael Cart
Not so many years ago, celebrated author Jane Yolen remarked that religion was the last taboo in young-adult literature. Her comments were occasioned by the 1998 publication of Armageddon Summer, which she cowrote with Bruce Coville. A well-reviewed and thought-provoking work of fiction, it examined the inner workings of a millennial cult that believed the world would end on July 27, 2000. A year after Armageddon’s publication, Susan Dove Lempke, in her Booklist review of Stephanie S. Tolan’s Ordinary Miracles, asserted that “well-written fiction exploring Christian themes is rare, and many libraries will want to snap this up.”
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Top 10 Religion Video: 2009
By Sue-Ellen Beauregard
Reviewed over the past two years, these films cover a spectrum of religious topics and issues, from offering advice on how to face death with a Christian outlook to profiling a troubled Catholic parish in Massachusetts and dramatizing a mock trial that debates God’s role in the Holocaust. Choose among these superb titles according to patron demand, interest, and use.
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Yuk Yuk Yuk
Posted by: gary
Rebecca’s entry on book chats is timely for me as our most recent mystery and crime fiction book discussion changed its normal format for this month.
Normally, we all read the same book and operate as a typical one group, one book, discussion. This month we changed two aspects of our normal procedure.
First, we decided to [...] |
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Weeklings: Blyton, Palin, F-Bombs, and Bad Sex
Posted by: Keir
In regard to last week’s query, yes, I did forget something. I forgot flarf.
So Enid Blyton, author of those fabulous Famous Five books I so adored as a callow youth, wasn’t much of a mum (”Why Enid Blyton’s greatest creation was herself,” by Garry Jenkins (Telegraph):
The drama reveals how Enid exploited even her own family to [...] |
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World Book introduces Dramatic Learning
Posted by: Sue Polanka
Whenever I see cool products for children and young adults, I’m always envious of the librarians and teachers who get to work with these tools. What’s gotten my envy this time is World Book’s new product, Dramatic Learning. It is a classroom tool to help with reading fluency and comprehension, based on play scripts, skits, [...] |
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Let’s Talk Turkey
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: I came home a few weeks ago to find a wild turkey strutting through my front yard. I frequently have to slow down and wait for a flock to saunter across the road on my way to work, but that was the first one to walk my garden path. Jim Arnosky’s new picture book, [...] |
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