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The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

by N. T. Wright
- Rated 0 stars
“Wright is a good speaker, an influential thinker ... and I can't follow his writing. This is the second book of his that I've failed to finish.”

Cathy B wrote this review Wednesday, February 25 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Fearless Faith: Living Beyond the Walls of Safe Christianity

by John Fischer
- Rated 3 stars
“I have pretty lukewarm feelings about this book. It seemed like a mishmash of the author's thoughts on current day Christian culture. His real life examples seem to support his opinions sometimes and contradict them at others. Actually it was hard to follow what his point of view is. Personally, I'm like that myself, not really integrated in my thinking. But I don't put that out there in a book.”

Cathy B wrote this review Monday, November 3 2008. ( reply | permalink )
The Interior Castle

by Teresa of Ávila
- Rated 1 stars
“I have wanted to read works of Teresa of Avila for many years. She is quoted by many of my favorite authors. However, after 100 pages, I can go no further in the book i purchased from Amazon. It is not listed as an edition here, but I warn any potential buyers of the edition translated by Mirabai Starr. The translator clearly views things differently than the author and she changes words and phrases to fit her own viewpoint. In her introduction she describes these changes so the reader is warned. I've decided that I'd rather read a more accurate interpretation. For starters, it would help if the Christian references to God and Satan were kept. Then as a reader I can "modernize" what I need to in my own head. My single star rating is not for Teresa's work but for the edition I tried to read.”

Cathy B wrote this review Monday, August 11 2008. ( reply | permalink )
In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

by Mark Batterson
- Rated 4 stars
“Batterson often sounds like a motivational speaker and the book reads like a self-help book. I thought I'd given up reading those long ago, but I found the book to be helpful and motivating! His excerpts from other writers are excellent. (He used my favorete bit of Annie Dillard - about wearing crash helmets in church.) I really enjoyed how he used chaos theory to illustration Christian principles.”

Cathy B wrote this review Saturday, May 24 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Hikaru no Go Vol. 11 (Hikaru no Go) (in Japanese)

by Yumi Hotta
- Rated 2 stars
“So many books. They can't be all as good (as number 5). This one is the weakest that I've read so far.”

Cathy B wrote this review Tuesday, May 20 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Touching Spirit Bear (rack)

by Ben Mikaelsen
- Rated 4 stars
“I picked this up while subtitute teaching for a middle school reading group. I couldn't put it down and finished it in 24 hours. It's a great story and has plenty for adolescents to discuss.”

Cathy B wrote this review Saturday, April 19 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Wittgenstein's Mistress (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

by David Markson
- Rated 0 stars
“I read the whole dang thing. It was not my cup of tea. I missed the "incredible and surprising emotional climax". ”

Cathy B wrote this review Sunday, March 9 2008. ( reply | permalink )
The Entailed Hat (Large Print Edition): Or Patty Cannon s Times

by George Alfred Townsend
- Rated 5 stars
“I stumbled across this book at the library and I'm glad I did. The setting is in the Maryland eastern shore, where I live, and the characters are, for the most part, real. It turns out I even know an ancestor of the infamous Patty Cannon, a woman who ran back and forth across state lines, stealing slaves and freedmen. This book was first published in 1888, I believe, and has that wonderful Victorian way with words.”

Cathy B wrote this review Sunday, February 24 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56

by Rafe Esquith
- Rated 5 stars
“This book took me quite a while to read. Now I'm going to have to buy it. I think of it as an inspirational reference book. The title is explained in the introduction and it made me laugh out loud in the library!”

Cathy B wrote this review Thursday, February 14 2008. ( reply | permalink )
The Namesake: A Novel

by Jhumpa Lahiri, Mira Nair
- Rated 4 stars
“I saw the movie recently and it seemed eerily familiar, especially the bumpy way it ended. Then I realized I had read the book several years ago and didn't like the bumpy ending. Rethinking, after reading discussions, there is some symmetry to the two women in his life and so the ending is appropriate.”

Cathy B wrote this review Friday, January 25 2008. ( reply | permalink )