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“The Haunted Cabin Mystery” created by Gertrude Chandler Warner
I didn’t read this (or review it) with the intent to participate in 5M4B’s Children’s Classics Mystery Challenge. But if the shoe fits… I don’t remember ever reading on of the Boxcar Children books...
View ArticleBook Review: “Bright-Sided” by Barbara Ehrenreich
Half-full or half-empty? The perennial question has always puzzled me. Which one exactly is supposed to mean optimism? Is it better to have fullness, even if the fullness is not complete–or is it...
View ArticleBook Review: “The Liturgical Year” by Joan Chittister
Some people fondly remember Saturday morning cartoons. I remember Saturday morning radio. In my youngest years, it was Mr. Nick and Jungle Jam and Adventures in Odyssey on KGBI-our local Christian...
View ArticleBook Review: “God’s Diet” by Dorothy Gault
Dorothy Gault has a plan to take the complexity out of diet planning. Her diet includes no counting, no nutrition panel reading, no exchanges, no dozens of rules to remember. In fact, there’s only one...
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Book Review: “The Big Crunch” by Pete Hautman
According to the book jacket: “Jen and Wes do not ‘meet cute’. They do not fall in love at first sight. They do not swoon with scorching desire. They do not believe that they are instant soul mates...
View ArticleBook Review: “The Layman’s Bible Commentary: Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel”
In last April’s Nightstand post, I gave a short review of The Layman’s Bible Commentary: Acts of the Apostles by Albert C. Winn. I spoke positively of it as a beginner’s commentary, restating and...
View ArticleBook Review: Bouncing Back after Your Pregnancy by Glade B. Curtis and Judith...
Of all the books on postpartum issues that I have read so far, Bouncing Back After Your Pregnancy is the most comprehensive and well-organized. Topics flow from immediate issues to infant feeding to...
View ArticleBook Review: Your Pregnancy Week by Week by Glade B. Curtis and Judith Schuler
The front cover of Your Pregnancy Week by Week proudly announces that it is “The only best-selling guide written by a doctor.” The spine contains a medallion announcing “The only best-selling guide...
View ArticleBook Review: Beautiful Babies by Kristen Michaelis
This is basically a defense of the Weston A. Price diet for pregnancy and early childhood. The nutrition advice ranges from odd to downright dangerous. The rationale for the advice is nostalgia and...
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