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Current drama on Twitter/X involves a podcaster whose most recent book was so bad that even though I read it trying to defend it, even I ultimately proclaimed it “Not recommended for anyone but the truly masochistic” now proclaiming that Christians should not “be fans of horror”.

Now, I was raised in the Church. My earliest memories are of going to a Church of God church, one where my high school mentor and the man who changed my life later went on to be the Principal of the school it ran for several years after his retirement from public education. I spent my later single digit years and teens in a Southern Baptist Church and during this period, my pastor of many of these years was a man who later (after I left that church) became President of the Georgia Baptist Convention. I then spent a few years - including when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005 - at the very Independent Baptist church that my parents had gotten married in 25 years earlier.

Some of my earliest chapter books - not the earliest

Facts. Not Fear. Discussion. Not Diatribe. Up front: I started this year at 341 lbs. On April 14, I was at 327 lbs after some diet changes (not eating a bag - or two! - of mini donuts every day among them, to give you an idea of where I was). That day, I had my annual ph

Michael Crichton And Tom Clancy Have Been Resurrected, Fused Together, And Mixed With A Pinch Of James Cameron, Jeremy Robinson, And Stephen Spielberg. Michael Crichton's death 18 years ago now was a **major** blow to the world of scie

As Above, So Below. Five years ago Jones wrote a book called To Rule The Waves, basically about surface shipping and the history and modern issues revolving around various geopolitical issues on

Comprehensive Look At Little Known Yet Essential Topic. As I sit here near the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, it turns out I actually have a facility wherein an undersea cable connects to the land cable networks almost literally just a few mil

Fucking Comprehensive Shit Lacking A Goddamned Bibliography. Ok, so the title of this review is quite intentional. If you can't handle that... this is *NOT* the book for you. While a claimed humorous look at the history of American profanity (that I never re

Comprehensive (If European/ North American Focused) History. I read Pettegree's 2021 history of THE LIBRARY, and it was great. So when I saw this book hit NetGalley, I had to have it too. And honestly, Pettegree nails it yet again.

This

I saw this post on Threads, and it sparked a story I want to share here.

The text of the initial post:

I don’t care how long a book has been out, it doesn’t mean that it’s “safe” to post spoilers. Posting quotes and stuff without very clear warnings just ruins the experience for everyone else, especially if it’s big things like deaths or whatever. I hope what I said makes sense

And this is the story I shared:

True story: I met Jeremy Robinson

Revenge Porn For The Department Of War Crowd. This is one of those tacticool "military thrillers" for the more modern former soldier/ wannabe. Lots of people getting shot, lots of fists being thrown, a few damsels and kids in distress, and through all the

Damn Near Generational. I can think of exactly two books I've ever read that come anywhere near close to this book - one was fairly niche inside Christian circles (in that I've rarely seen anyone other than myself talking about it, even though it was transformatio