Feb
22
"The Snow Child" was listed as a "title to pick up now" in the February edition of Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine. It was a "Staff Pick" on the Barnes & Noble website. It made the top of the list of The Christian Science Monitor’s "6 books you should resolve to read in 2012." Overseas, where …
Feb
22
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Feb
22
How Dennis Altman’s seminal 1971 work, Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, struck an enduring chord with SX’s sex writer, Barry Lowe. There are few books that have changed my life. If for even one second you thought the Christian Bible was one of them go to the back of the class, do not pass Go, do …
Feb
22
(Photo: Peter Holden Photography)Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (Photo: The Crown Publishing Group)Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, The Crown Publishing Group. 1/2February 13, 2012|3:20 pm Murray compares changes that have taken place among working class and upper middle class Americans. He finds among the working …
Feb
22
SANTA MARIA – It's another reminder of how the digital age is changing the world we live in. The Celebration Christian book and bible store is closing its doors after more than 40 years of operation in Santa Maria. The store has moved and changed hands several times over the years. The current owners say …
Feb
21
“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.” A new book by Alain de Botton is always a treat. His 2009 book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, is one …
Feb
21
TIFTON — The memories and childhood experiences of growing up on her family’s farm in Worth County in the 1930s and 1940s has inspired 83-year-old Sarah Senkbeil to write her first book, “Company’s Coming.” She will have a book signing 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Lion Chasers Christian Bookstore at 118 Second St. …
Feb
21
Last night, the world was introduced to Kevin Smith’s ‘Comic Book Men’ on AMC after ‘The Walking Dead’. Seeing as I’m the friendly, neighborhood Kevin Smith fanboy around these parts, it is my duty and fortune to present you with a recap of the premiere episode. Before I get to the recap, I have something …
Feb
21
Was there ever a writer who, on the face of it, looked less destined for literary immortality than Agatha Christie? </p><p>Born Agatha Miller, naturally shy and brought up in a cosseted Edwardian home in the seaside town of Torquay, she toddled in the shadow of older siblings. (“Agatha’s so terribly <span class="italic">slow</span>” was the family …
Feb
21
A New Book Analyzes Famed Birkat Haminim Prayer By Raphael Magarik Cursing The Christians? A History of the Birkat HaminimBy Ruth LangerOxford University Press, 388 pages, $74 During a year studying medieval liturgical manuscripts, Ruth Langer found herself drawn to places where words, phrases and even a whole paragraph had been erased or, as she …