I’m underwhelmed. Amazon’s Oyster-like subscription service appears to me to be a repackaging of the odd amalgamation of books already in the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library.
The Religion & Spirituality category is indeed chock full of Amish romance—and hundreds of books and authors I’ve never heard of.
I haven’t made an exhaustive search, but enough to conclude for myself that Oyster is a far better choice. They really had some good books—I just can’t read them on my Kindle. Too bad.
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman.My rating: 5 of 5 stars I'm hoping to publish in a journal a more extensive review of this excellent—though long and at times...
Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence by Alex BerensonMy rating: 5 of 5 starsFor every book there is an equal and opposite book. I read Smoke Signals by Martin Lee in preparation for my own small coauthored book, Can I Smoke Pot?...
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter IsaacsonMy rating: 5 of 5 starsSomehow some writers of biography end up sounding trite, both in their relating of their subjects' stories and in the lessons they draw...
I love my brothers and sisters in Christ who insist on the exclusive use of the King James Version, because we have a “like precious faith” in the biblical gospel—and because certain of those brothers and sisters showed great love to me in high school. They continue...
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