In Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia, Dennis Covington takes a firsthand look at the mysterious and mystical practice of […] Read More
Tag: Non-fiction
Karen Prior’s On Reading Well is a love story. It is not only the story of her love of reading good literature, but it is also […] Read More
I remember vividly a conversation from twelve years ago at a networking event. It was a discussion with a fellow avid reader about how many […] Read More
I wrote a year or so ago about some podcast recommendations and how listening to them had cut into my time for audio books. This […] Read More
I’m an Ann Patchett fan. So when I traveled to Nashville for a conference earlier this year, I intentionally carved out time to make a […] Read More
If you’re looking for book club recommendations, this is a wrap up, including ratings, of my book club’s 2017-18 book selections. Because life happens, we weren’t […] Read More
We did it! The votes are in & the SOC Sistas have selected the books we’ll be reading this year. If you are looking for […] Read More
There is a rash of World War II literature. In our last book club annual selection long list, there were enough books that had we […] Read More
I bought The Fact of a Body after hearing about it on the Literary Disco podcast*. My plan had been to give it my dad […] Read More
The Ragamuffin Gospel changed the way I think of God’s love. For someone who has been a Christian as long as I have, and for […] Read More