Book Review: Redemption: A Rebellious Spirit, a Praying Mother, and the Unlikely Path to Olympic Gold
Redemption: A Rebellious Spirit, a Praying Mother, and the Unlikely Path to Olympic Gold by Bryan Clay My rating: 4 of 5 stars Who besides Bryan’s prayer warrior mother dared to dream and trust God that he would turn from living as a drinking, fighting, selfish and self-destructive, insecure-but-arrogant young man? Redemption, Bryan Clay’s autobiography (written with Joel Kilpatrick) is the...
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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese My rating: 5 of 5 stars This may be one of the most compelling stories I’ve ever read. The beauty and majesty of Verghese’s prose is astonishing. I’m shocked that it isn’t based upon real lives – since it captures the very essence of Shiva and Marion, identical twin boys, conjoined in the womb; their mother a nun who dies giving them life and...
Read MoreBook Review: Calico Joe by John Grisham
Calico Joe by John Grisham My rating: 4 of 5 stars John Grisham never fails to deliver. Some of his work is better than others, but I was engrossed from the moment I devoured the first paragraph, possibly because I love baseball more than how well the book was written. Calico Joe, a baseball phenom, has his career devastated by a vicious, self-serving, “old school” pitcher who believed that...
Read MoreBook Review: Crazy Dangerous by Andrew Klavan
Crazy Dangerous by Andrew Klavan My rating: 5 of 5 stars Crazy Dangerous, written by Andrew Klavan took me by surprise. It’s a story about a 17-year-old preacher’s kid, who learns deeply and sometimes painfully about himself, bullies and mental illness. At first, I wondered if I’d gotten myself into a Young Adult book, as it is written in a first-person voice by the kid himself. While...
Read MoreBook Review: Behemoth by Jonathan Leicht
Behemoth by Jonathan C. Leicht My rating: 2 of 5 stars The Title is Behemoth. Jonathan C. Leicht is the author. It’s Creation vs Evolution. In a famous game preserve in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, some of the Park’s animals turn up dead – killed in a fashion that doesn’t make sense to Jim, the Park Ranger. The story is Jim’s quest to find the animal that did the killing; at...
Read MoreInexpensive Wells!
Can you believe that one tiny organization has likely drilled more water wells than any other well-drilling organization in the world? Water For All, International (WFA), headquartered in San Angelo, TX (or others trained with this technology) has been responsible for 3,000 or more wells throughout the world over the past 20 years! Pioneered by Terry Waller first in Africa, then in Bolivia, WFA...
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