The past two reviews, The Islar (a sequel) and The Two Kingdoms (a prequel) to the underground utopian classic, Islandia, has shown a depth and clarity of a fictional world unlike anything I've ever read before. Havoc in Islandia, a second prequel to Islandia, I...
Book Review 24: The Two Kingdoms by Mark Saxton (Islandia Quartet Book #3)
by MHill | Jul 30, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Islandia Quartet
Last year, I posted a review for the book titled, The Islar, by Mark Saxton. It was a sequel to the underground utopian novel Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright. Saxton wrote two more novels in the Islandian universe and this review of The Two Kingdoms is a prequel to...
Book Review 23: Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
by MHill | Jul 26, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Octavia Butler
How would you feel about a book that you re-read twenty years later? Would it still fascinate you like it did before? Would it bore you? Would it show how much you have mature since the first time you read it? Well, I decided to answer those questions by re-reading...
Book Review 22: Stephen King’s Bag of Bones
by MHill | Jul 5, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
What happens when you fulfill one of your bucket list items? Do you feel a sense of achievement? Satisfied? Surprised? Disappointed? Well, I can write that after reading Bag of Bones, I felt all of those feelings except disappointed. As you know, Stephen King was...
Book Review 21: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
by MHill | Jun 13, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
When I heard that Ray Bradbury had passed about eight days ago, I realized that I had never read any of his books. Wow, that surprised me. Well, in honor of his passing, I decided to read his most popular and enduring work, Fahrenheit 451. "Do you know why books such...
Book Review 20: Sidney Sheldon’s Other Side of Midnight
by MHill | Jun 3, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews
Have you ever gone outside of your comfort zone? What did it feel like? And were you better for going outside of your comfort zone? Well, I did in reading The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon. This 1974 classic best-selling novel was something I would have...
Book Review 19: The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken
by MHill | Mar 6, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Christianity & Art, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Nonfiction, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Writing
I wrote a review for Imagine by Steve Turner and said that book along with the Bible and a couple of others that every Christian who loves the arts and literature should have in their library. Well, I'm adding The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken to that...
Book Review 18: S. by John Updike
by MHill | Feb 22, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews
What happens when a woman leaves her former life behind in order to seek a spiritual awakening? Well, that's the scenario in the novel S. by John Updike. S stands for Sarah Worth, the main character in the novel. She is a New England housewife who decides to leave...
Book Review 17: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick
by MHill | Jan 20, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews
Well, I finally decided to read one of Philip K. Dick's novels. Since he's one of the giants of the science-fiction genre and I'm a reader of it, I thought the time was right to check him out. Some of you would have told me to read either Man in the High Castle or...