Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel40 reviews Rivka Galchen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Excellent debut! + Tzvi is real 4.5 out of 5 stars It's rare that a book gets starred reviews from all four major review publications. Was this book that good; does it really deserve that much attention? Yes, absolutely. I really, really loved it; so much, in fact, that I held off reading the last 20 pages or so for two ...             Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith7 reviews Suzanne Strempek Shea Beacon Press, 2008 A Real Treasure of a Book + Lovely eye opening adventure + Thought-provoking and Entertaining + One nation filled with God             The Pound Era9 reviews Hugh Kenner University of California Press, 1973 this is da geeza + Indispensable + Becoming Pound + A great work of lit. criticism with a pinch of history + Writing on Pound worth the grapple             The Open Secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology2 reviews Alister E. McGrath Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 A Holistic Natural Theology The enterprise called "natural theology"-- popularly understood to be the attempt to prove the existence of God "naturally," apart from any religious presuppositions-- has found a rather splotchy reputation in the gossip of "respectable" theologians and philosophers. Yet just as it was wise to ...             How Fiction Works19 reviews James Wood Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Excellent + Brilliant little book + Literary Criticism James Wood is one of the clearest, and most insightful of contemporary literature critics. This little volume is an extraordinary little to guide to creative writing from an obviously well read author. Wood privileges the modern realism of Flaubert and Tolstoy over more avant-garde approaches to ...             The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel289 reviews Michael Chabon HarperCollins, 2007 Deliciously Multi-Layered + Chabon's best to date + Bittersweet like woodsmoke Prior to U.S. involvement in World War II President Roosevelt proposed establishing a temporary Jewish settlement on the Alaskan panhandle. In The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon takes that premise and creates an ...             The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective49 reviews Kate Summerscale Walker & Company, 2008 A Fabulous Read! + Thoroughly researched True Crime + The Suspicions of Mr Whicher + An Elegant Overview             Say Yes To No: Using The Power Of No To Create The Best In Life, Work, and Love Greg Cootsona Doubleday, 2009 Greg Cootsona puts a spiritual spin on the classic business strategy for setting priorities in this valuable guide to finding personal fulfillment in an increasingly frantic world. At age thirty-eight, Cootsona, a physically fit minister busy with his growing congregation and his young family, had a scare with heart trouble. The unexpected and frightening news proved providential. Cootsona ...             The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963 (Collected Letters of ...4 reviews C. S. Lewis HarperOne, 2007 Easily the deepest and most thought provoking of the collections + Not Coming Out in Paperback + Cleaning out the attic. + The great author as a character.             A Secular Age17 reviews Charles Taylor Belknap Press, 2007 Landmark portrait of modernity + For more... + Can't review because not yet received An exhaustive, very learned string of reviews on Taylor's study can be found at "The Immanent Frame" ([...]), a blog maintained by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). After all that has been said, I will only add that Taylor's book is work of synthetic and imaginative genius. It offers ...             Save the World on Your Own Time1 review Stanley Fish Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Divesting the Academy of Left and Right *Save the World on Your Own Time* is an incisive, engaging, and I daresay inspiring polemic on major issues in higher education today. Stanley Fish does not mince words; the argument he repeats throughout this book is that academics should stick to "doing their jobs": "introduce students to ...             Exiles: A Novel14 reviews Ron Hansen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 finally a fiction book about gerard manley hopkins! + A Peek Under The Habit I just finished reading this very interesting book and encourage anyone who loves the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ to read it also. The author skillfully weaves the story of the five German sisters who died on the ship Deutschland with the story of the Jesuit poet, G.M. Hopkins, as he ...             Save the World on Your Own Time1 review Stanley Fish Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Divesting the Academy of Left and Right *Save the World on Your Own Time* is an incisive, engaging, and I daresay inspiring polemic on major issues in higher education today. Stanley Fish does not mince words; the argument he repeats throughout this book is that academics should stick to "doing their jobs": "introduce students to ...             The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel289 reviews Michael Chabon HarperCollins, 2007 Deliciously Multi-Layered + Chabon's best to date + Bittersweet like woodsmoke Prior to U.S. involvement in World War II President Roosevelt proposed establishing a temporary Jewish settlement on the Alaskan panhandle. In The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon takes that premise and creates an ...             A Secular Age17 reviews Charles Taylor Belknap Press, 2007 Landmark portrait of modernity + For more... + Can't review because not yet received An exhaustive, very learned string of reviews on Taylor's study can be found at "The Immanent Frame" ([...]), a blog maintained by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). After all that has been said, I will only add that Taylor's book is work of synthetic and imaginative genius. It offers ...             The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective49 reviews Kate Summerscale Walker & Company, 2008 A Fabulous Read! + Thoroughly researched True Crime + The Suspicions of Mr Whicher + An Elegant Overview             The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963 (Collected Letters of ...4 reviews C. S. Lewis HarperOne, 2007 Easily the deepest and most thought provoking of the collections + Not Coming Out in Paperback + Cleaning out the attic. + The great author as a character.             How Fiction Works19 reviews James Wood Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Excellent + Brilliant little book + Literary Criticism James Wood is one of the clearest, and most insightful of contemporary literature critics. This little volume is an extraordinary little to guide to creative writing from an obviously well read author. Wood privileges the modern realism of Flaubert and Tolstoy over more avant-garde approaches to ...             Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith7 reviews Suzanne Strempek Shea Beacon Press, 2008 A Real Treasure of a Book + Lovely eye opening adventure + Thought-provoking and Entertaining + One nation filled with God             Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel40 reviews Rivka Galchen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Excellent debut! + Tzvi is real 4.5 out of 5 stars It's rare that a book gets starred reviews from all four major review publications. Was this book that good; does it really deserve that much attention? Yes, absolutely. I really, really loved it; so much, in fact, that I held off reading the last 20 pages or so for two ...