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August 2013

August 22, 2013

The Extinction Machine by Jonathan Maberry

Extinction Machine by Jonathan Maberry My rating: 5 of 5 stars “So, basically if we...

August 19, 2013

Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life by Elizabeth Scalia

Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life by Elizabeth Scalia My rating: 4 of...

August 05, 2013

More Scenes From the Rural Life by Verlyn Klinkenborg

More Scenes from the Rural Life by Verlyn Klinkenborg My rating: 4 of 5 stars...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Light, Enjoyable Summer Audiobook Listening

I was pretty excited about the chance to listen to audiobooks with my husband, Tom,...

July 11, 2013

Bookmark goes undercover as a maid, while Popcorn is outside drinking tea from a crumpled paper cup.

Scott and Julie enjoy their new Punjabi nicknames almost as much as they enjoyed The...

July 09, 2013

How to Defend the Faith Without Raising Your Voice by Austen Ivereigh

How to Defend the Faith Without Raising Your Voice: Civil Responses to Catholic Hot-Button Issues...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Caravans by James A. Michener

Caravans by James A. Michener My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read one Michener...

June 20, 2013

The Quiet Light by Louis De Wohl

The Quiet Light by Louis De Wohl My rating: 5 of 5 stars Having finished...

June 19, 2013

Creatures of the Abyss by Murray Leinster

Creatures of the Abyss by Murray Leinster My rating: 3 of 5 stars I listened...

June 07, 2013

What I’m Reading: America – The Last Best Hope (vol. 1) by William Bennett

America: The Last Best Hope, Volume 1: From the Age of Discovery to a World...

June 04, 2013

The Restless Flame by Louis de Wohl

The Restless Flame by Louis De Wohl My rating: 4 of 5 stars Having dropped...

May 2013

May 24, 2013

The Murray Leinster Collection

Murray Leinster Collection: The Pirates of Ersatz/The Aliens/Operation Terror by Murray Leinster 13 Hours –...

May 22, 2013

What I’m Reading: Zombies, Asteroids, Murder, and John Quincy Adams

Two irresistible books showed up in the mail yesterday. I think I've overindulged in review...

May 21, 2013

The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters

The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters My rating: 4 of 5 stars The date...

May 16, 2013

Julie and Scott take a quick swim to the deep end of the pool (where all the cool kids hang out) to talk theology.

We bring the big guns to A Good Story is Hard to Find when we...

May 14, 2013

The Church Building as a Sacred Place by Duncan G. Stroik

The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal by Duncan G....

May 10, 2013

Once a Spy by Keith Thomson

Once a Spy by Keith Thomson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I came across...

May 09, 2013

Philip K. Dick’s World … And Ours

So what does Dick have to say about surviving and prevailing in this world? [...]...

May 02, 2013

What I’m Reading: Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word

Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word: Meditations on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

The Abbey by Chris Culver

The Abbey by Chris Culver My rating: 3 of 5 stars Ever seen those books...

April 29, 2013

Becoming a Great Godparent: Everything a Catholic Needs to Know

Becoming a Great Godparent: Everything a Catholic Needs to Know by Paraclete Press My rating:...

April 26, 2013

Blessed, Beautiful and Bodacious by Pat Gohn

A young woman I know told me she loved the title of this book, saying,...

April 24, 2013

An Absolutely Spiffing Review of Stranger in a Strange Land

I've gotten into a wonderful conversation over at the Catholic Writers' Guild blog. It goes...

April 22, 2013

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot My rating: 5 of 5 stars...

April 18, 2013

Julie and Scott did NOT switch bodies for this podcast …

... Night Watch, an urban fantasy straight from Russia, is the book we're discussing at...

April 18, 2013

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've never been that...

April 11, 2013

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April 06, 2013

This Just In: Selfless: The Story of Sr. Theophane’s Missionary Life in the Jungles of Papua New Guinea

Selfless: The Story of Sr. Theophane's Missionary Life in the Jungles of Papua New Guinea...

April 05, 2013

Bleg: A Good Book About Catholicism and End-of-Life Issues?

A pal of mine is in the medical profession, just entered the Church, and was...

April 04, 2013

In which Doan and Carstairs board the bus to Los Altos and meet their fellow passengers.

Doan and Carstairs are back in The Mouse in the Mountain which sees our hard-boiled...

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