by John Bytheway How Do I Know If I Know John Bytheway, besides having the cutest name since Picabo Street, is a fantastic speaker on LDS matters. No matter what subject he tackles he always inspires and uplifts his readers/listeners. I have been away from the church for quite awhile…
by John Scalzi Head On Some authors write good books once in awhile with clunkers in between. Anne McCaffrey, for instance, with all of her brilliance, still managed to pump out some really bad fiction. I’m looking at you Petaybee. Then there are the authors you can rely on to…
by James E. Ryan Wait, What?: And Life’s Other Essential Questions I’m a sucker for inspirational, self-help books, especially those with a practical approach. This one hit nicely in that sweet spot between helpful and entertaining. This started as a graduation speech the author made at the Harvard School of…
by Dakota Krout Dungeon Calamity The second book in this series was the strongest. The first book suffered from excessive world-building but in the second one, the author found his footing and really got things moving. He built up great momentum and introduced a credible threat that challenged both the…
by Dakota Krout Dungeon Madness So often the second book in a series is a let-down and you realize the author didn’t have more than one idea to explore. Other times the second book picks up where the first one left off and is even better. This book is one…
by Dakota Krout Dungeon Born Are you a 12-14 year old boy who loves sitting on Grandma’s old couch in Mom’s basement munching on Doritos, arguing about how to build the perfect dungeon? Have you ever thought, wow, this is so much fun, I should write a book about it?…
by Melanie Jacobson Painting Kisses Lia Carswell is an Artist with a capital “A.” She’s not your average dabbler, no, she’s an artiste! I got really tired of hearing how she paints what she feels and everyone who sees her paintings practically faints with admiration. She’s the kind of painter…
by Melanie Jacobson Not My Type Pepper Spicer is about 20% jerk and 80% loser when we first meet her. She throws a fit when her family refuses to ignore her birthday and, gasp, make her a chocolate cake. This heinous act shall not stand and our heroine flips the…
by Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan and the Madman And so I face the final curtain… It has been a long, sometimes bumpy, road from Tarzan of the Apes to Tarzan and the Madman. Along the way, especially around the Tarzan and the Ant Men mark, I wondered if I would…
by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Andrew C. Skinner, Thomas A. Wayment What Da Vinci Didn’t Know: an LDS Perspective I read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown against my better judgment and despite the advice from many intelligent people I respect. Honestly, if no one had told me how popular…
