Book Review Heads Up
January 2, 12 - 2:06pmSo, as you may have noticed from the last two posts, Moryam recently signed up for Thomas Nelson’s blogger review program called BookSneeze. In exchange for writing honest reviews, bloggers are given free copies of newly-released books. This may have been an optimistic gesture motivated in large part by his new Kindle . . . or it may have been his clever way to get me, his academically apathetic wife, to stretch my reading and writing muscles. You see, Moryam’s already packed grad-school reading docket keeps him from having the time to read for fun, so in large part, I will be handling the book reviews (not that there is a quota required by the progam. You just have to finish reviewing a book before you can get a new one.) Moryam may regret putting me up to it as I’ve been dissecting the books out loud as I read them in an attempt to be very thorough and objective in my reviews. Poor Moryam. He may as well read the books himself at this rate.
Upcoming reviews:
-Terry Lindvall’s Surprised by Laughter: The Comic World of C.S. Lewis
-Larry Arnn’s The Founders’ Key: The Divine and Natural Connection Between the Declaration and the Constitution and What We Risk by Losing It (I know!!! Who knew it was being published by Thomas Nelson? Get excited!)
Three cheers for attempting something academically minded again! Perhaps I should convince Dan that this would be reason enough to get a Kindle . . . to get his Hulu-loving-wife doing something else.
As if working as a nurse and running after Theo isn’t “something else”! In all seriousness, though, the steady stream of books has already been a good alternative to hulu-surfing for me during Laeth’s naps, and the Kindle has been good because I can download something I really want to read when I can’t find anything gripping on our shelves. I find that I’m much more picky about books these days (Dorothy Sayers’ Lord Peter mysteries have been a recent favorite). Anyway, it’s been a healthy addition to my days at home!