In grad school I remember sitting down to watch Waltz with Bashir. It had come on Netflix and I had heard about it. I remember watching the first 10 minutes of it and either something interrupted me or it was just too heavy for the moment. Either way, I never finished it. I happened to be at my library and saw the graphic novel, which made me wonder if I shouldn’t read it before I went back to the film. So I did. Waltz with […]
The Tragic Beauty of the Himalayas
I saw the movie Everest (2015) and found out during the credits that it was based on true events. I liked the movie so I was very curious about the book. While I’ve never had the itch to climb Mt. Everest, there’s something about the idea of climbing it that speaks to my inner adrenaline junkie and wanna-be adventurer seeker. So for now, I thought, why not just stick with the movie and the book? Into Thin Air, is the account of the deadliest (at […]
The Gut-Punching Power of Good Story Telling
When writer’s write about war, I always wonder how much is truth, how much is imagination, how much is exaggeration, and how much is therapy. And there have been many good examples of writers such as Hemingway who were able to translate their military experience into literature. I feel that Philip Klay’s Redeployment will become one of those war-experience works that will join the canon along side The Things They Carried and All Quiet on the Western Front. In Redeployment, I feel like truth and […]
Treating People as Jesus Would Isn’t Easy
I got behind on several of my book club’s selections and this is one of them that I’m catching up on. Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber was highly discussed and recommended by my fellow book clubbers and I’m happy that I can now share in their enthusiasm, having just finished it last night. The buzz around the book and the author is that Ms. Bolz-Weber isn’t your typical ELCA pastor. She’s tattoed, swears, and drops truth bombs like no other. While I haven’t met her, […]
Humorous and Heartfelt Autobiography
My wife and I have started this tradition of choosing an audio book to listen to on car trips. It’s a nice change from just listening to music, plus it helps us up our Cannonball Read counts (we are a competitive pair). For me, I prefer to read a book rather than to listen to one. Listening to more podcasts recently, has made me develop more of my auditory literacy so I’m trying to see if I can’t also develop a liking for audio books. […]
Good for Traveling, Not for Entertainment
I can remember back to middle school when we’d get the Scholastic book order catalogs, I’d skip over the Goosebumps, Encyclopedia Brown, and other stock middle school series, to get right to the section on geography. Be it a book on flags of the world, a specific region of the world, it didn’t matter; I wanted it! When the book would arrive I’d race home and begin absorbing all of the information it had to offer. This turned into travel lust as a teenager and […]
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