Mini Book Review # 26: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein. A brief summary of why many urban Americans live in divided neighborhoods. The author’s goal in The Color of Law is to prove that much of what we often call, “de facto segregation,” or segregation by random personal choices,…
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The rest of my booklist follows soon in a longer post! I love a good novel, dripping with suspense or simply telling a story that needs to be heard. These were my favorite novels of 2021. You’ll see a mixture of classic and modern novels. Many of the novels I read are in the Christian fiction subgenre, but I only…
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Mini Book Review #25: Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. A short-and-sweet summary of this classic Russian novel. Anna Karenina is a brilliant study of humanity. It tells two stories: one of faithful and one of faithless love. And while the faithless Anna has reasons for leaving her husband, she finds that happiness cannot be found in living for one’s own…
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Mini Book Review #24: A Mom After God’s Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children, by Elizabeth George. A very short, very sweet review of this encouraging book for moms. A Mom After God’s Own Heart speaks to the soul of the mother who wants to do more than just take her kids to church and keep them fed….
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Mini Book Review #23: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond. A short-and-sweet summary. This gripping, Pulitzer-prize winning work follows the lives of several Milwaukee families in deep poverty as they experience evictions and homelessness. The author of Evicted treats these families with understanding, even when they turn to drugs for relief. He also follows an…
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