So Many Books, So Little Time
Catholic Media Review
10/20/2009, by Julie Davis
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - I am seriously behind on book reviews. Every time I think I am going to get a chance to review something, work gets in the way. If only I didn't have to pay bills, I'd just write reviews for you all day. As well, I've gotten in a slew of books recently. And most ...
Fire of God's Love - 120 Reflections on the Eucharist
Catholic Media Review
10/20/2009, by Julie Davis
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Media Review) - "Through the Eucharist God changes us as surely as he changed the elements of bread and wine into himself. He forms us as living stones in the temple of his Church. He builds up a eucharistic culture to replace the culture of death. "Think globally? Act ...
Angels of God: The Bible, the Church, and the Heavenly Host
Catholic Media Review
6/2/2009, by Julie Davis
DALLAS (Catholic Media Review) - Angels are persons. They can think, love and make choices. Like us, they have intellect and free will -- though their intellects make our own seem hardly worthy of the title; and their will is perfectly aligned with God's (at least in the case of the good angels), ...
New Book on Marian Prophecy Receives Catholic Church’s Official Imprimatur
Two Hearts Press, LLC
5/13/2009, by Diana Bowring
The Secrets, Chastisement, and Triumph of the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a new book by theologian Dr. Kelly Bowring, traces the recent prophecies of the Blessed Virgin Mary and compares them with the Book of Revelation in the Bible to show that we are living today the beginning of the ...
Books in bloom: 40 fresh titles to tide you over till summer
McClatchy Newspapers
4/22/2009, by Mary Ann Gwinn
Seattle Times (MCT) - It's been a cold and rainy 2009 so far. So here in the book department, we declare that spring has just started, one month later than planned, by compiling a list of "spring" books with publication dates of April through June. There's lots of choice fiction here _ new novels ...
John Grisham makes social justice entertaining
McClatchy Newspapers
4/22/2009, by Jane Henderson
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - John Grisham calls himself a "low tech" guy. He has an e-book reader that's "wonderful" _ but he can't get used to reading on it. For his novels, he tries not to bore the reader with too much scientific or legal jargon. He's not even terribly interested in getting ...
Celebrating 25 years on ‘Mango Street'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/15/2009, by Steve Paul
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Sandra Cisneros is humble enough to believe she had nothing to do with the success of her first book. It was 25 years ago when a small press issued her little compilation of interconnected stories, "The House on Mango Street." Central to it was life as seen and ...
Totally obsessed with Columbine
McClatchy Newspapers
4/15/2009, by Connie Ogle
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Dave Cullen intimately understands the emotional rollercoaster onto which he lures readers of his comprehensive history of the Columbine shootings. He knows because he's been riding it ever since he started covering the attack on April 20, 1999, when Eric Harris and ...
Author rooted in two continents, inspired by an African woman
McClatchy Newspapers
4/1/2009, by John Timpane
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - It started with a woman chasing a chicken in her yard. The setting was a little village in Botswana. Alexander McCall Smith watched her and told himself: "Someday I'll write about a woman in Africa."
Lounging in the domed foyer of the Ritz-Carlton last week, ...
Harlan Coben's fictional alter ego, Myron Bolitar, gets the adventure — but Coben got the girl
McClatchy Newspapers
4/1/2009, by Allen Pierleoni
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - "Myron is me, but with wish fulfillment," Harlan Coben was saying on the phone from his Ridgewood, N.J., home, which he shares with his pediatrician wife, Anne, and their four children. The mystery writer was explaining his signature character, the always-captivating ...
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