Monthly Archives: December, 2008
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Synopsis taken from Amazon: Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake – but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the creperie – and lets memory play [...]
Share on FacebookA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Synopsis from Amazon: Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is now synonymous with greed and parsimony, believes Christmas to be ‘humbug’. Refusing to donate any of his fortune to the poor, he comforts himself by saying, ‘I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.’ But then the ghost of [...]
Share on FacebookDeluded by Dawkins? by Andrew Wilson
This book is a Christian response to Richard Dawkin’s “The God Delusion“. At first glance one would think it will completely bash Dawkins’ book, but it isn’t like that. Yes Wilson does point out where Dawkins’ is wrong and the flaws in his book, however he does give credit where it is due. Wilson is [...]
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