I wondered whether posting a review of this book would be a good idea. As much as I appreciated it, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to burden my blog with so heavy and disagreeable a topic as Bill Gothard. A Matter of Basic Principles is worth it, however. When I began to research Gothard’s…
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Review: The Mystery at Lilac Inn
Back in my pre-teen years, I had an array of books – the American Girls, the Magic Attic series, the Little House series, My America and other historical-fiction diaries. But looming above all these were Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. They were older than my grandmother, and I never seemed to reach the end…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Warring Nations …
I liked The God-Hater. I thought I’d say that before I devoted a post to how it tripped over a peeve of mine. The book has an important subplot revolving around corporate warfare – and that’s not a figure of speech. Myers called corporations the “warring nations of today”. I’ve seen this in science fiction…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Very Antithesis of a Mechanism [Spoilers]
“Not wanting to build a mere clocklike mechanism, you inadvertently – in your own punctilious way – created that which was possible, logical and inevitable, that which became the very antithesis of a mechanism …” “Please, no more!” – Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad Three stories. “The universe is infinite yet bounded.” So begins the Seventh…
CSFF Blog Tour: The God-Hater
(Note: In conjunction with the CSFF Blog Tour, I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.) People don’t like Nicholas Mackenize. And there’s no love lost, because he doesn’t like people. But he saves his real hatred for religion. He is – loudly and proudly – a God-hater. Of all the creatures…
CSFF Blog Tour: Breaking the Love Triangle
I’m going to start off by putting a Spoiler Alert on this whole post. From here on in I’ll make free in discussing details from the book. One of the interesting aspects of Dragons of the Valley was the love triangle. Bealomondore loved Tipper, Tipper loved Jayrus, and Jayrus loved … well, you couldn’t tell….
CSFF Blog Tour: A Judge, a Priest, a Paladin …
One of the main characters of the Chiril Chronicles is Jayrus, dragon-keeper and prince of something. A wizard proclaims him to be Chiril’s Paladin. What is a paladin? According to my Dictionary, it is “a champion of a medieval prince”. According to Donita K. Paul, it’s some sort of spiritual leader who, by the by,…
CSFF Blog Tour: Dragons of the Valley
(Note: In conjunction with the CSFF Blog Tour, I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.) It’s been said that good fortune follows good fortune, and bad fortune follows bad fortune. This may be why Chiril’s first armed rebellion in many years is followed by its first foreign invasion in many years….
CSFF Blog Tour: Someone’s Got to Label
There’s been a lot of variation in how The Wolf of Tebron is classified. I’ve seen it labeled Children’s, Adult, and Youth; I’ve read reviewers say it was above children and even above teens. I’ve read that it’s good for some teens, good for young adults and up, and good for everyone. Who is responsible…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Wolf, the Lion, and the Messiah
Yesterday I said that there is a strong Christian aspect to The Wolf of Tebron. I wrote a little about it, but there is much more that can be said. Today I hope to say some of it. I’m afraid that, in order to discuss certain elements of the book, I’m going to have to…