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Book Review: Control Girl

Posted on February 20, 2017 by nathanalbright

Control Girl:  Lessons On Surrendering Your Burden Of Control From Seven Women In The Bible, by Shannon Popkin [Note:  This book was provided free of charge by Kregel Book Tours.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.] This book, although … Continue reading →

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Book Review: 400 Creative Ways To Say I Love You

Posted on February 15, 2017 by nathanalbright

400 Creative Ways To Say I Love You, by Alice Chapin On one level, as is often the case with books that I read written by women and for women [1], it is somewhat ludicrous that I should be reading … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Courage To Soar

Posted on February 12, 2017 by nathanalbright

Courage To Soar:  A Body In Motion, A Life In Balance, by Simone Biles with Michelle Burford [Note:  This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Zondervan.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.] This book manages to combine two … Continue reading →

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In Harmonious Conflict

Posted on February 6, 2017 by nathanalbright

Yesterday afternoon at church, I managed to listen to most of the sermon message after having my Sabbath school class, and the message was for fairly straightforward reasons a particularly awkward one for me to listen to.  It is my … Continue reading →

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A Musing On Parallel Accounts

Posted on February 3, 2017 by nathanalbright

From time to time it falls upon my lot to read parallel accounts of the same event [1], and I find this to be deeply interesting from the point of view of someone looking for insight on sources and how … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Large Family Logistics

Posted on January 31, 2017 by nathanalbright

Large Family Logistics:  The Art And Science Of Managing The Large Family, by Kim Brenneman For the record, I do not come from a large family, nor am I in any particular place to plan for a family of the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Forgive & Forget

Posted on January 30, 2017 by nathanalbright

Forgive & Forget:  Healing The Hurts We Don’t Deserve, by Lewis B. Smedes Right from the beginning, this author makes it clear that he knows his reading audience:  “Somebody hurt you, maybe yesterday, maybe a lifetime ago, and you cannot … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Talk Yourself Happy

Posted on January 29, 2017 by nathanalbright

Talk Yourself Happy:  Transform Your Heart By Speaking God’s Promises, by Kristi Watts [Note:  This book was provided free of charge by Blogging For Books/Thomas Nelson Publishers.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.] As I have some rather critical … Continue reading →

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Audiobook Review: Shakespeare: The World As Stage

Posted on January 26, 2017 by nathanalbright

Shakespeare:  The World As Stage, written and read by Bill Bryson Having enjoyed Bryson’s humorous account of a trip along the Appalachian Trail [1] and being a fairly intense bardophile of the Stratfordian type [2], like the author, this was … Continue reading →

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Thinking Of You

Posted on January 24, 2017 by nathanalbright

As someone who reads a great deal of children’s literature, and literature written by young people [1], I tend to notice a few patterns over and over again.  Among these novels there is often an implicit understanding that the world … Continue reading →

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