Is Christianity Too Insular?

This is apparently unofficially Books For And By Christians Week at Farceland. I suppose anyone reading this blog has pretty much gathered where my head is at. I grew up in Christianity. I made a profession of Faith at 4 years of age. (I was a precocious child and it was a well-informed and reasoned [...]

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The CBA=Candles under the Bushel Association

The can of worms Eric Wilson opened last week are writhing their way across the blogosphere as though they’ve been greased and teased. A week after Eric’s opening salvo there are still bitter arguments everywhere. As much as I go out of my way to avoid arguing these days, this is one that I think [...]

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Hurry On Home

First off let me say that everything is now fine. More or less. But my puppy Gob got out the front door this morning when I was going to the mailbox. So, naked except for a nightgown and furry socks, fresh from taking my nasty meds and with a migraine stabbing my right eye I [...]

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The Ransom Notes

So help me…we’re about to see the end of my year-long love affair with Kindle. They’ve started doing this thing (or at least I’ve only recently become aware) where they show you the highlighted passages in the book you’re currently reading. That is, they show you, by way of light grey dots, the parts in [...]

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Theodicy: The Sparrow & Me & The Finger Method

This is one of those blog entries that couldn’t wait until full morning, instead dragged me from my bed at 1:00am to get the thoughts in print as fast as I could. It starts as a book review but is really me setting some parts of the record straight as best I can.. Back at [...]

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Christian Books

I’m deep in conversation over on Facebook with various of my coreligionist book lovers. The question of the moment is whether or not it is time for Christian Fiction to die. I’m politely trying to retain friendships and acquaintanceships–how unlike me–so i’m not saying what I am most burning to say, which is “you mean [...]

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Y Ever Not

Argh. As much as I love Safehold–and I do–I’m realising yet again why it is I read so few Sci Fi books, Harlequin Romances and boinkbusters. I’m a character-name snob. Big time. While I truly enjoy fictional escapism, I like the feeling of possibility. I like to feel that the characters I’m reading about might [...]

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Some Computer Also Says….

I didn’t know who Cory Doctorow was. Truly. I guess if I have to compare myself to an author I’ve not heard of it’s better than realising that my work is ripped off from someone I regularly read. Then I did the stupidest thing ever. I decided to analyse a different chunk of the same [...]

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Some Computer Says….

I write likeCory Doctorow I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

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It Takes Balls To Live In The Future

I’ve read a lot of Science Fiction in my life–but honestly I haven’t read a lot of it in the last ten years or so. No particular reason why; mostly because I spent much of the 1990s taken with thrillers and a good part of the aughts engrossed in Women’s Contemporary Fiction when I wasn’t [...]

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