The Broke and the Bookish

  A Short Stay In Hell by Steven L. Peck Strange Violin Editions   Lent to me by a friend 4 stars A few months ago my friend wa...

The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau Reviewed as a part of Historical Fiction Book Tours Nancy Bilyeau's Website: http://www.nancybilyeau...

Title:  Escape Author:  Carolyn Jessup & Laura Palmer Published:  Broadway Books, 2007 Rating : 4 stars Back in October 2009, I pulle...

The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong Knopf, 2000 Where I got this book: The library. Why I read this book: I've always been fairly i...

This is the first contact, as it were, that I've had with the works of Flannery O'Connor. I believe the Southern Gothic genre, of wh...

Image from Amazon Title:   The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror Author:  Bernard Lewis ( Web site ) Publisher:  Random House, 20...

(photo from Goodreads) Title:   Sikander Author: M. Salahuddin Khan Publisher: Karakoram Press, Lake Forest, IL, 2010 Notes: I was of...

(photo image found at Amazon.com) Title: The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam Author: G. Willow ...