Features & First Impressions 1. Reviewer James Berardinelli says, “What Dreams May Come has the sensibilities of an art film placed into a big-budget…
Americanah, Half a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
When Nigeria is Home I was handed a book, told I should read it, did, and now want to recommend it to you. Our…
Cross and Crescent (Colin Chapman, 2007) Islam: A Short Guide to the Faith (Eds. Roger Allen & Shawkat Toorawa, 2011)
Islam: Christians seeking understanding If you haven’t done much reading on Islam it might be time to begin given its importance as a religion…
Margie’s 2015 Christmas Gift List
Books / Hospitality / Ordinary Life
Please Note: all books can be ordered through www.heartsandmindsbooks.com Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Non-fiction) Author: Atul Gawande Metropolitan Books,…
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Eugene Rogan, 2015)
When National Self-interest Begets Trouble The First World War has always seemed like a distant reality to me—a horrible conflict that engulfed other people…
Fishsauce & Mayonaisse
An issue of Food and Wine included a recipe for Thai fish sauce. I read it because I like Thai food, at least the…
Crucifixion (1), (2) and (3)
Crucifixion (1) Whips curling, slack, sharp flash of sun on glass slashing with a crack. Crucifixion (2) Sun slides down the spike before the…
Salt and Sunflower Seeds
Sparrow
Salt and Sunflower Seeds a mouse sits on the edge of the steel grate below the ceiling. his beady eyes bulge as he nibbles…
God in the Sink (Margie Haack, 2014)
Excerpt from God in the Sink Last summer in the space of a few weeks, I received more invitations to speak than I had…
Get Scared, Built for Blame, Laced with Shame (2012)
The lament of a burdened heart Though moving is no fun, developing new friendships is. So I asked a young woman I am getting…