Monthly Archives: November 2019

Book Review: The Anxiety Toolkit

The Anxiety Toolkit:  Strategies For Fine-Tuning Your Mind And Moving Past Your Stuck Points, by Alice Boyes As someone who has dealt with anxiety for a long time, I find myself deeply interested in reading books about anxiety, and I … Continue reading

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Book Review: Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents

Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents:  7 Ways To Stop The Worry Cycle And Raise Courageous & Independent Children, by Reid Wilson and Lynn Lyons This book is really aimed at children of anxious parents who themselves are being raised, often unconsciously, … Continue reading

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Book Review: My Age Of Anxiety

My Age Of Anxiety:  Fear, Hope, Dread, And The Search For Peace Of Mind, by Scott Stossel This particular book disappointed me.  It is obvious that this book seeks to aim to be a part of a select group of … Continue reading

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Dance Monkey

Over the past few weeks I have become increasingly familiar with the song “Dance Monkey,” by the oddly titled singer-songwriter Tunes and I.  This song first became a smash hit in Australia, where it has been #1 for a period … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy

The Private Diary Of Mr. Darcy, by Maya Slater This novel falls prey to one of the main failings of novels about the Regency era written by contemporary writers, and that is the tendency to be cynical about the virtue … Continue reading

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Book Review: Darcy’s Story

Darcy’s Story, by Janet Aylmer This book does something worthwhile that is harder to do than it might seem at first, and that is to rearrange and reframe the story of Pride & Prejudice while retaining as much as possible … Continue reading

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Book Review: Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy: The Last Man In The World

Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy:  The Last Man In The World, by Abigail Reynolds This particular book is a Pride & Prejudice Variation, where the author has chosen to change Pride & Prejudice at a point and then explore a changed scenario … Continue reading

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The War Of Heaven:  Satan In Revelation 12

Revelation 12 is one of the most interesting passages in the Bible, because it brings the reader to a subject that the Bible has been dealing with from the beginning, and that is the ultimately unsuccessful warfare of Satan against … Continue reading

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The Synagogue Of Satan In John’s Letters To Smyrna And Philadelphia

What makes a church into the synagogue of Satan?  And why is it that the two churches that had to deal with this are the only two that receive no blame but only commendation and encouragement in Revelation 2 and … Continue reading

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Book Review: Sauron Defeated

Sauron Defeated (The History Of The Lord Of The Rings Part Four), by J.R.R. Tolkien If previous volumes of this series that I have read have been odd metafictional experiences by which one sees some of the manuscript editing that … Continue reading

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