Reviews by Michelle Van Loon
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (Reviewed 9/29/2009)When I first began working at the Trinity Bookstore in 2004, Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz had been out for a few months and was just beginning to catch on via the best advertising of all, positive word-of-mouth. I grabbed it off the shelf, read it, lovedlovedloved it, and foisted it on all sorts of ...
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Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl (Reviewed 7/26/2009)It's been a while since I've posted a book review. I'm typically a blazing-fast reader, and finished one of the two books I'll be reviewing today in a couple of nights. But N.D. Wilson's Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl forced me to suspend my Evelyn Wood-style speed-reading habits in favor of the kind of ...
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The Principle of the Path (Reviewed 6/24/2009)Does anyone else remember the bookmobile coming to their neighborhood on a steamy summer day? Even though the vehicle reminded me of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile, I loved the idea of a library-on-wheels, parking two blocks from my house. How did they know that this 8 year-old reading addict needed a ...
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The Hole in Our Gospel (Reviewed 5/16/2009)Saved by faith. Saved for works.Richard Stearns, the president of World Vision, describes the relationship between faith and works in his compelling book The Hole In Our Gospel (Nelson). I expected the president of World Vision to take on the Western church's blindness toward both the practical and spiritual ...
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Christianity Today Study Series: Faith & Pop Culture (Reviewed 3/30/2009)From the top of my reading stack:When I saw Chosen: An Autobiography sitting at the top of the "new releases" shelf at the Trinity Bookstore, I grabbed it last week during the store's 40% off clearance sale. (See note about why the store had 40% off new releases, below.) Chosen is the life story of Michele ...
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Rex (Reviewed 1/26/2009)
Rex's life was marked by one tragic diagnosis after another: blind, autistic, a spectrum of other neurological/developmental problems. Left to raise her severely-disabled son after her husband left the family when Rex was still a baby, Cathleen Lewis became a ferocious advocate for her son. Her intense ...
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The Unseen (Reviewed 12/21/2008)
TracFones. Brainwashing. Surveillance. Creep Club. CIA. Parkour. Characters named Dilbert, Humpty, Swarm and Snake. All populate a shadowy world featured in T. L. Hines' techno-supernatural 386-page hardcover fiction release, The Unseen (Nelson). The book tells the story of Lucas, an urban nomad who ...
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Reflections of God's Holy Land (Reviewed 12/2/2008)
When I was a little kid, I attended a couple of years of "Sunday School" at the temple to which my parents belonged. They couldn't afford the whole Hebrew school business, which would have put me on the fast track to a Bat Mitzvah at age 13. The temple offered religious education on Sunday mornings for ...
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