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I have long wanted to start reading the writings of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, the formerly imprisoned Soviet dissident best remembered for saying “Live not by lies.” His first book turns out to be probably his shortest, covering just one day in the imprisonment in Siberia of a fictional character nam

This book is the earliest book I remember reading, in fourth grade. It started my lifelong fascination with World War II and the Holocaust. As I have said, there are six million stories if you only count the Jews who died in the Holocaust, but so many, many more died in that war. All were unique

I received these books in 1969, for Christmas when I was 11 and in 6th grade. I know that because I wrote all that information, including my address and phone number, inside the cover that Christmas Day. I also wrote that I received them from my mom’s favorite cousin and her husband who, ironical

This is another in the recent plethora of first person Holocaust stories being told before the survivors die. It has been 80 years since the war ended, after all. And many of these folks were trapped in the Soviet Bloc for around 50 of those years, so it took a while for their writers to be able

A few years ago, I reviewed Randy Alcorn’s “Heaven” for our Ladies’ Meeting. A lot of us have read it since then. It shows eternity will definitely be a whole lot more active than sitting on clouds strumming harps!!! Now I have just finished his short book (135 pages) “The Treasure Principle.” On

During Missions Conference, Regina Bell told me her grandparents had led the way to ministry in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, where Regina had grown up as a third generation missionary (Regina is now with her husband and children ministering in the Dominican Republic). Ruth Scheltema, Regina’s g

When both the Sinclairs (new couple heading Baptist World Missions) and the Steadmans (couple that just retired from heading Baptist World Missions) all say they have just read a new book on Corrie ten Boom and her family during World War II, it is a good sign that you want to read that book! Tha

After reading Huxley, it was comforting to read this short set of essays by the other great English writer who died the same day as Huxley. Lewis writes about the loss of an objective set of morals and values for the human race and predicts what it could produce. Ironically, Huxley answered that b

I bought David Horowitz's book because he said he used to be far left and became a conservative who is now vilified as far right. There was a lot interesting in this book. I agreed with some of it and disagreed with some of it (political candidates stuff we can agree to disagree on at Tab). What

I bought this book on Kindle because I thought it would be a conservative book; it is not. It uses the history of democracies around the world to make the case many of my liberal friends have tried to make that we should not have an equal number of senators in every state and that basing a state's

"Daring Dependence" is the follow-on to "Daring Devotion." Both are books with 31 missionary bios, organized to be read as a devotional for a month. Amanda Baker recommended both of them at the Ladies' Meeting this year. I just finished this second one. The book lists full biographies of all o

This book of short missionary biographies was recommended by Amanda Baker at the 2023 Ladies' Day, along with its companion volume, Daring Dependence. I just started it today but it already hit me very deeply with its bio of Eric Liddell, one of my favorite missionaries ever. Eric was the subjec

I read this important book last year. Rod Dreher may be a saved man. I am not sure. He is currently Eastern Orthodox but he moved in that direction from a Methodist background. He is conservative on social issues, on which he has written extensively for U.S. news media, like CNN, Fox, and the N

I am curious about which members may have read 1984, both in school like I did, and afterwards, like my best friend Kimberly just did. She and Noel referred me to a similar book called Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler. Kimberly bought it for me at Christmas and I am reading it now. I guess t

I do not remember which speaker recommended this book from the pulpit right before Christmas but I clicked three keys and bought it on Kindle right during his sermon. I knew I could not risk forgetting the title! I just started the book and find it hard to put down. Nabeel Qureshi is an American

This book is about a little Japanese girl who got separated from her parents in the Philippines during World War II. She grew up in the Philippines not knowing her own name. A kind missionary named her Diamond and taught her to write her name. (Tap to see the rest) This story reads like the most

This book on suffering is a quick read, theologically sound, and very helpful. It covers the author’s 5 D’s of suffering: The 5 D’s of Suffering: 1. Deliverance (of unbelievers) 2. Discipline (of sinning believers) 3. Development (of believers moving into new capacities) 4. Deployment (of believe

Every once in a while I read a G.K. Chesterton book just because he was such a highly rated English writer I feel I should try to understand what he is saying. His words are fine; I understand most of his vocabulary. But his analogies can be hard for me to follow. Nonetheless, it was fun to read

Last month, Amanda Baker gave me a book title that she said was a must read. She was right. The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku tells the true story of a young Jewish boy in Germany and Belgium during the late 1930’s whom we would say had some pretty unfortunate things happen to him, followed

I have read quite a few books about Lady Jane Grey in my lifetime. She was the nine-day Queen of England in between King Henry VIII’s teen son, Edward VI and King Henry VIII’s daughter, Mary I (AKA Bloody Mary because she turned England back to mandatory Catholicism and martyred those who would not

Last year Joey, his counselor, a couple of his mentors, and I embarked on a book study together, The Anger Management Workbook by W. Robert Nay, a counselor in the D.C. area. I finally finished it today. While secular, it does not contradict God’s Word or His principles and it provides much practi

I have been thoroughly enjoying this book of World War II history which intersects nicely with the history of women in the Navy. To recap, as almost all eligible men were mobilized to the European or Pacific fronts during the war, almost all military jobs Stateside and some jobs overseas were given

This will probably be the only book I ever read by Huxley, a British philosopher who wrote prodigiously and died on the same day as C.S. Lewis. That event would have made headlines except it was overshadowed by something else. It was November 22, 1963 and JFK died that day, too. At first I did no

Five Lies of our Anti-Christian Age by Rosaria Butterfield is a kind book but it is a direct book. Two of the Lies are #1 Homosexuality is Normal and #4 Transgenderism is Normal. Mrs. Butterfield is in a unique position to know about these topics. She was raised unchurched by actively pro-abort

I just finished reading this book for the second time and thus the choice of special for today. Elisabeth Elliott wrote this in 1956, months after her husband (and four others) were martyred. This edition has several updates since then on the Waodani people, as they call themselves (Auca was the

"The Sluggard ’Tis the voice of the Sluggard: I heard him complain,“You have wak’d me too soon, I must slumber again;”As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,Turns his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy head. “A little more sleep, a little more slumber,”Thus he wastes half his days and his

I got this book suggestion from Kathy Hickok. It was a good one. Thank you, Kathy. Lalechka is a book written like fiction but based on a previously unpublished primary source from World War II, the diary of a Jewish woman in Poland who gave her baby to her two best friends from high school to be

Okay, Amanda was right at the Ladies' Meeting. Married people *do need to read this book along with singles . It shows how God has fit us all together as a living church with married members and with single members and how we should appreciate our singles in exactly the places and roles where God

For many reasons, this is one of the finest Christian books I have ever read. First, Nabeel reminds me of the Apostle Paul in that he was a 100% committed, righteous Muslim until Christ captured him and he became a 100% committed Christian believer. Whatever he did, he did 1000%. Secondly, his bo