Pastor Bonhoeffer was an amazing person and should make for an amazing biography.Unfortunately the author was more interested in making this read as a piece of historical fiction and could not control his urges to editorialize. The book went on for much longer than it needed to and harped on par...
My pastor loaned this book to me to read - and I really had no idea what to expect. The seven men covered in this book are: George Washington, William Wilberforce, Eric Liddell, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jackie Robinson, Pope John Paul II and Charles W. Colson. Quite a range I am sure you would agr...
Wow! Eric Metaxas did an amazing job telling a detailed account of Dietrich's life without putting me to sleep!This book was packed with personal accounts and interactions with Dietrich and his closest friends and family. It was put together in a way that allowed me to get to know Dietrich inti...
My vocabulary could not keep up with this book. I'm ashamed. I only made it eighty-some pages. My dad read it and keeps telling me about it and how good it is, but I am intimidated by this massive book with its indecipherable words. Perhaps when I am more learned, I will try again, because I real...
Sometimes the backgrounds of figures of the faith slip our minds, and we consider them flat characters who, suffering terrible things achieved greater. Metaxas did an excellent job of pulling down the division between our lives and theirs. In each short biography, Metaxas asks his readers to cons...
Nancy Tillman's books are beautiful. Even the ones that don't seem as appealing immediately have this way of growing on us and we love each of hers that we have read. The pictures are so soft and peaceful and the language is poetic. I have found these to be the most soothing books to read to m...
One rainy day, while daydreaming about how happy his life would be if he had a son of his own, a humble toy maker named Geppetto starts carving a puppet. And except for the single outstanding feature of a magnificently long nose, which makes the puppet appear somewhat mischievous, Pinocchio looks...