Demons. Angels. Nephilim. Spiritual warfare. It’s left the theology section for a new home on the Christian fiction shelves. In A Hideous Beauty, Jack Cavanaugh offers another supernatural thriller. The cover has the White House in the background, which is why I picked it up. I’m a sucker for stories about presidents. I quickly learned…
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Review: Washington’s Lady
Written by Nancy Moser Nancy Moser’s website “First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.” This is the most famous tribute to George Washington, the father of our country. The greatness of Washington consisted not only in that he was first, but that he was first out of patriotism rather…
Review: Under Running Laughter
Written by Dean Jones That Darn Cat was Hayley Mills’ last movie for Walt Disney, and Dean Jones’ first. Hayley Mills moved on, but Dean Jones remained a Disney star for the next decade. He presented the perfect Disney image: clean-cut, handsome, all-American. Behind the image was a wild life, a man going through an…
Review: The Cyberiad
Written by Stanislaw Lem Translated by Michael Kandel The Cyberiad is a collection of short stories, “fables for the cybernetic age”. Appropriately, then, they star cybernetic beings. One of the peculiarities of the book is that the characters are robots – a fact never forgotten, and often used, by the author. (In one story the…