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Pale-Faced Lie, The

True Crime Meets Coming of Age Author: David Crow David Crow grew up learning to torture his mother and take constant revenge so that his father, Thurston Crow, would love him. These were the only times he received praise from his ex-con father, the only time he was made to feel part of the family, feel like he was worth something. Growing up in a Navajo Indian Reservation, raised by a violent father and a mentally ill mother, David and his siblings lived in a wild, fluctuating space of psychotic violence interspersed with occasional rays of friendliness from passing people. In [...]

2023-11-26T16:25:29-07:00November 26th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

Pursuit of God, The

A Thought Provoking Devotional Author: A.W. Tozer As part of the C.S. Lewis Institute’s Fellowship program, the month of August was dedicated to pursing God and truly understanding discipleship: what it means, what we have to do, and what God does. One of our assignments was to read a chapter a day from A.W. Tozer’s short devotional, The Pursuit of God. While this tome isn’t as clearly structured as the first Tozer book I read, The Knowledge of the Holy, it still evinces the same zeal, the same mystical emotive call, half focused on theology and half focused on the pure [...]

2023-11-25T11:56:39-07:00November 25th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

Possessed, The

A Gothic Horror Novel That Falls Flat Author: Dorothy Daniels I’ve been wanting to read Dorothy Daniel’s The Possessed since I first saw the old school paperback with its blood red edges in my mom’s book collection as a kid. The amazing cover art promises a morbid romance, supernatural villains, and a Dark Shadows like setting. What more could you want? Well, as it turns out . . . quite a lot. Like the actual promised atmosphere. A plot. Realistic characters. A smattering of subtlety. Decent dialogue. An attempt at coherence. . . Lizabeth, a beautiful young orphan, lives with her [...]

2023-11-19T13:58:16-07:00November 19th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |
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