Posted on January 17, 2008 by Kathy Dove

Best selling author, Dannion Brinkley, started off his writing career with an autobiography called “Saved By the Light”. He has since written many more books and has his own web site where he does readings and sells other spiritually-minded material.
In “Saved By the Light”, he recounts his experience of getting hit by lightning in his [...]

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Kathy Dove

A gripping story based on actual facts and witness accounts of the crash of an Eastern Air Lines flight. The plane went down into the Florida everglades on a December night of 1972, killing 101 passengers and crew members. Miraculously, there were 77 survivors.
Due to a landing gear malfunction, the crew desperately tried to correct, [...]

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Kathy Dove

This is a compelling and excellent true story of one woman’s life and what it was like for her and others to be living in Iraq during the Saddam Hussein regime.
Living under the rule of Saddam Hussein could either be very good for you and your family or to the other extreme. As Hussein’s government [...]

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Y.G.

Another one from my vault of classic novels: Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. The story is set in nineteenth century England, and tells the tale of Pip, a young orphan brought un ‘by hand’ by his much elder sister whose kind husband later takes him as his apprentice as blacksmith. Through a series of more than [...]

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Y.G.

Here is a book that was recommended to me a long time ago, after I had mentioned getting more and more interested in my studies of linguistics applied to English language. Besides, I confess a weak spot for any book that deals with the evolution of a language.
This is my first time reading Bryson, and [...]

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Y.G.

Tess Durbeyfield is a young peasant who lives in 19th-century south England, and whose naive hopes are those of every young woman of her social class. However, when her father discovers that they are in fact the last direct descendants of the old and noble D’Urbervilles family, her life is turned upside down. Tess is [...]