France, in 1792, was an unsafe place, and not only for the king and queen. As revolutionary fever seized the nation, and Paris descended into tumult and violence, everyone’s security became threatened; everyone’s peace melted away. Colette, in the thick of things with her revolutionary brother, finds her spirit drifting away from it. Regretting the…
Month: April 2014
CSFF Blog Tour: Like a Crusader
“Crusader perched like a gargoyle on a second floor ledge …” So begins Numb – with Crusaders and gargoyles, icons of the Middle Ages and the Catholic Church. Although there are obvious and significant differences between the True Church of Numb and the medieval Catholic Church, there are also definite similarities. The power exercised in…
CSFF Blog Tour: Numb
Crusader is the best assassin the Church has, carrying out all his missions with heartless thoroughness. He is intelligent and methodical in his work, his skills well-honed. And he’s numb. No pain can stop him, no emotions can get in his way. Until he is assigned a new victim and, for reasons he doesn’t understand,…
CSFF Blog Tour: Sci-fi and MLP
And so the CSFF blog tour begins again. This month’s book is Numb, written by John Otte and published by Marcher Lord Press. Numb is science fiction, a distinction in Christian speculative fiction these days. At some point fantasy became the dominant subgenre, trailed by apocalyptic fiction, dystopians, the angel/demon stories, “supernatural thrillers” (basically horror,…
From the Office of Cooking Experiments
We at the Office of Cooking Experiments are proud to once again offer you, the home cook, the benefit of our experience and knowledge. “We make mistakes so you don’t have to” is our motto. So read on, cooks of America, and do as we say, not as we did. Always cook from a recipe….
Movie Review: Peter Pan
All children grow up, except one. And Peter Pan, eternally young in Never Land, has another sort of immortality in the real world. Everyone knows who Peter Pan is. Of all the re-tellings of Peter Pan over the years, Disney’s 1953 film may well be the most famous. A skilled artistry underlies the whole movie….
In Praise of LibriVox
Some time ago my brother told me about an organization called LibriVox that offers countless audiobooks free of charge. And I did not check it out, because I have never been that crazy about audiobooks. I do aerobics for my exercise. (Yes, we’re still on the same subject; stick with me.) The aerobics are okay,…