Synopsis:
An exploration of the meaning of chastity in the 21st century.
Review:
Real Sex is an excellent companion piece to Anna Broadway’s Sexless in the City. Winner offers a larger cultural and historical context for Broadway’s desire to live chastely, and has some ideas about why Broadway expresses some disappointment in the way she has been [...]
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Tags: American Literature
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Told their unborn child has birth defects that will likely lead to stillbirth, a couple decide to see the pregnancy through to term.
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I am a sucker for stories like those found in The Shaming of the Strong. When I was pregnant with Superfast Baby I thought a lot about what I would do if [...]
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Tags: Canadian Literature
Synopsis:
The misadventures of a hapless twenty-something woman whose greatest fear is that she will die a virgin, and whose second greatest fear is that she’ll have sex before marriage.
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I’ll let you know up front that there’s no way that I can be objective about Sexless in the City, because Anna Broadway met the woman who [...]
Popularity: 24% [?]
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Tags: American Literature
February 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I’m late getting to Gautami’s Non Fiction Meme.
* a) What issues/topic interests you most in non-fiction, i.e, cooking, knitting, stitching, there are infinite topics that have nothing to do with novels? Books about food, books that explain scientific topics for general readers, biography, memoir, history, travelogues.
I love reading books about my hobbies, [...]
Popularity: 44% [?]
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Synopsis:
The death of Brian Martin’s father by suicide prompted him to reflect on his own spiritual journey and battle with depression.
Popularity: 30% [?]
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Tags: American Literature
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A collection of essays on film by the movie critic for Christianity Today that decry the many of the knee-jerk reactions that some Christians have against popular culture and the arts.
Popularity: 35% [?]
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Tags: American Literature
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A Christian how-to book focused on understanding God’s grace & freeing yourself from the tyranny of legalism.
Popularity: 21% [?]
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October 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment
Synopsis:
An autobiographical collection of irreverant essays about finding Jesus in the most unlikely places, starting with super-pagan Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Review:
I kept hearing about this book from various people whose opinion I respected, but I was a little skeptical. I am weary of efforts to make Christianity “cool” or “relevant” or “postmodern” or [...]
Popularity: 44% [?]
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Tags: American Literature