0084 | 1421 – Gavin Menzies
Context: Finished this in Shanghai at the house of my mate Gavin whose collection of novels got me back into fiction after many years away. REVIEW According to Menzies, it…
0083 | Wild Swans – Jung Chang
Context: Finished this at Stephen & Abigail’s house where we first met Matthew their son. REVIEW Finally read this book. Twice I’ve started it and I realised I needed to…
0076 | The Bible in English ~ David Daniell
Context: Read over two years after I picked this up on a snowy day at Borders in Stockton.REVIEW This took me two years to read. But it wasn’t because it…
0067 | Walden ~ Thoreau
REVIEW This started out really well with some very erudite remarks about the way the material world, if you, Atlas-like, manage to find a position to observe it correctly from,…
0062 | Junky ~ William Burroughs
REVIEW After battling my way through Naked Lunch, I wasn’t sure what to expect from my second Burroughs novel. It wasn’t half as bad though thankfully.
0061 | Istanbul ~ Orhan Pamuk
REVIEW A friend at work bought me this for my birthday way back last May. I’d said I was interested in it after reading Pamuk’s The White Castle while I…
0041 | Paradigms in Conflict – David Hesselgrave
REVIEW Hesselgrave I know from the masterful work Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally and, like that book, this one doesn’t disappoint.
0040 | Spiritual Power & Missions – Edward Rommen (Ed.)
REVIEW This book deals with issues that I’ve always queried, ever since my family encountered magic and witchcraft in west Africa when I was a teenager.
0035 | Sex, Romance and the Glory of God – C.J. Mahaney
I have no idea where this book came from. I just discovered it there yesterday so thought I’d give it a go. Mrs Arukiyomi must have picked it up at…
0005 | Survival in the Killing Fields – Haing Ngor
REVIEW: Chilling, engaging, honest and tragic from beginning to end. Haing Ngor’s life couldn’t have been imagined and written as fiction if someone had sat down and tried to make…