Reviewing my social media activity in 2020, I note that there was a lot of activity on Vital Signs Blog, the new Vital Signs Ministries website, and Facebook. But the activity on The Book Den decreased substantially.
Now that wasn't because I haven't been reading. No, 2020 has been an especially good year for that -- 83 books to date and quite a few of those making 3 and 4 star ratings -- it's simply that I've tended to put even my literary arts and literature oriented posts on other platforms. But I've decided to start uploading those types of posts over here where they belong. I can always cross post when appropriate.
Anyhow, I'll let this post be a catch-up one, the first of that type since last April. I won't bother to list everything but merely give you the best of the lot.
In the area of classic literature:
4 stars --
Oliver Twist (by Charles Dickens)
Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis)
Perelandra (C.S. Lewis)
That Hideous Strength (C. S. Lewis)
The Never-ending Story (Michael Ende)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne)
3 stars --
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (G.K. Chesterton)
In the genre of theology and Christian living:
4 stars --
Everlasting: God's Faithfulness to Israel (Stuart Cunliffe)
Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Jan Karon)
Worry Less, Live More: God's Prescription for a Better Life (Robert J. Morgan)
3 stars --
The Rapture Question (John Walvoord)
Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
The Meaning of Persons (Paul Tournier)
In the genre of history & historical novels:
4 stars --
To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (Jeff Shaara)
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War (Joseph Loconte)
3 stars --
The Spy (James Fenimore Cooper)
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
Dorothy & Jack (Gina Dalfonzo)
Victory at Yorktown (Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen)
Three Days in October (Yael Dayan)
My Life for My Sheep: Thomas Becket (Alfred Duggan)
In the genre of pleasure reading (adventure, mystery, etc.):
4 stars --
Dream Days (A.A. Milne)
3 stars --
The Cursing Stones Murder (George Bellairs)
The Golden Rendezvous (Alistair MacLean)
The Watersplash (Patricia Wentworth)
The Case Is Closed (Patricia Wentworth)
Lonesome Road (Patricia Wentworth)
River of Death (Alistair MacLean)
