Book Reviews


Reviewer's ChoiceCarlos the Impossible

J.T.K. Belle


Incongruous Press, 45 pages, paperback, $5.99, 978-1452877624
(Reviewed: November, 2010)

In this short but elegant novella, an aging matador from Mexico meets his greatest adversary in an infamous bull from the American heartland. Inspired by traditional folk tales, the author sets his story in an indeterminate time period,...

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Heaven in the Midst of Hell: A Quaker Chaplain's View of the War in Iraq

Commander Sheri Snively, D.Min.,CHC, USNR


Raven Oaks Press, 269 pages, hardcover, $26.95, 9-780981-9926000
(Reviewed: November, 2010)

Commander Snively, a Quaker minister and U.S. Navy chaplain, served a year with Marines at a trauma hospital and morgue in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. This book--a well produced, if unevenly written coffee-table-style volume combining...

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God is Not Green: The Scary Story of Christian Systematic Theology

Patricia Lingenfelter Highby


Scribd, 133 pages, e-book, free
(Reviewed: November, 2010)

In this extended essay, author Highby proposes that the reason why planet Earth is in such dire straits environmentally is because of the anti-nature message that Christianity’s leading theologians promulgated during the early years of the...

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Go Eat, Pete

Katie Nelson, Illustrated by Gail M. Nelson


LifeVest Publishing, 26 pages, paperback, $9.99, 978-159879734-4
(Reviewed: November, 2010)

Pete is a dog who eats all the wrong things. While a monkey munches on a banana, Pete eyes a pizza. While a mountain goat eats grass, Pete samples a cinnamon roll. A wolf, an elephant and a seal all choose healthy eating options; meanwhile,...

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Herby's Secret Formula

Sue C. Hughey


Associated Arts Publisher, 221 pages, paperback, $11.95, 978-0-9814539-5-8
(Reviewed: November, 2010)

Hughey takes a clever approach to the premise of the boy who shrinks, then relies on his wits to survive in a big world in this first in a promising middle-grade series.

A grade school boy named Herby accidentally spills a potion...

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