Sunday, April 14, 2019

Read Any Good Books Lately? (I Have!)

What have I been reading? Well, my latest “catch up” post was on February 12 so I’m afraid I’ve got quite a few to list. I will, however, continue with the system I started; that is, putting the books into specific categories with individual ratings. (Note: it’s only the ones that made 4 Stars that receive my unqualified recommendations.)

Also, all books that are underlined are books that I had read at least once before…sometimes more.

Fiction:

* The Thurber Carnival (James Thurber) — 4 Stars
* Beauty Can Kill (Michael McCretton) — 1 Star
* The Pillar of Light (Louis Tracy) — 2 Stars
* That Printer of Udell’s (Harold Bell Wright) — 4 Stars
* Pier Pressure (Dorothy Francis) — 2 Stars
* Conch Shell Murder (Dorothy Francis) — 2 Stars

Historical Fiction:

* The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (A.C. Doyle & John Dickson Carr) — 3 Stars
* Mission to Moscow (Malcolm Muggeridge) — 4 Stars
* November 1916 (Alexander Solzhenitsyn) — 4 Stars
* Three Weeks in October (Yael Dayan) — 4 Stars

History: 

* The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War (Steven Pressfield) — 4 Stars
* Evil Obsession (Nellie Snyder Yost) — 3 Stars
* Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then & Now (Mark Steyn) —
4 Stars
* Allied Intelligence Bureau: Our Secret Weapon in the War Against Japan
(Col. Allison Ind) — 3 Stars

Theology & the Christian Life:

* A Miscellany of Men (G.K. Chesterton) — 3 Stars
* L’Abri (Edith Schaeffer) -- 4 Stars