“How can ghosts be in your head?” my four-year-old asked me one day. I had been talking to my husband about this book, and my son overheard me. “Uhhh…” I began. How do you explain something like that to a kid? I tried my best with a preschool explanation of this book’s title, all the while realizing that for many people, the topics in this book are not abstract at all, but disturbingly real. While not a ghost story, this book is frightening. Told from […]
An Attempt to Clear the Air about Scientology
Going Clear is about the enigma that is Scientology, a religion marketed to the wealthy and famous who can afford undergoing years of auditing sessions. It’s a secretive religion that unfolds information in stages, making the stranger tenets of Scientology more palatable after acclimating one’s mind to less shocking, but priming “truths.” As a newer religion (founded by L. Ron Hubbard in the mid 1950’s), Scientology has recent history to its detriment. And it is this with which Wright begins…the story of L. Ron Hubbard, […]
If you go into the woods today…but really, this isn’t a teddy bear picnic.
I birthed a little person recently. So reading is about as much a priority as wearing a shirt right now. However, I have a lot of “down” time in the form of rocking and feeding said little person. So a free book on my Kindle was in order. Enter Follow You Home. It was on my Kindle. It was free. I didn’t have to wear a shirt. Done. I got through this book in two days, which is record time for me. I don’t know […]
World War II From a German Perspective in this Memorable True Story
This World War II story is written by an American war historian, Adam Makos. Makos finds a story so compelling, he fights his patriotic instincts and centers his story from the German perspective. A Higher Call highlights the life of Franz Stigler, a German fighter pilot ace. Framing his book around the so-called enemy, Makos wonders early in the book, can good men be found on both sides of a bad war? Franz Stigler knew as a young boy he wanted to fly planes. His […]