Entries Tagged as 'Old Books'

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Epic: The Story God Is Telling

Author: John Eldredge

Life for most of us feels like a movie we’ve arrived to forty minutes late. For when we were born, we were born into the midet of a great story begun before the dawn of time.

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Author: Marina Lewycka

Synopsis:
‘Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a […]

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Shadow of the Wind

 The current novel is Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The international literary sensation–a runaway bestseller in Spain–is about a boy’s quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.