Booksneeze Review: The MoneySmart Family System, by Steve and Annette Economides
The Economides, hailed as ”America’s Cheapest Family” in another of their books, want to help other families learn to manage their money, and pass that information on to their children. They say their book is for those parents who “define successful children as those who want to be independent and self-sufficient adults, able to stand on their own two feet and look back at their parents with a smile of gratitude for helping them to be autonomous.” Sounds pretty good, right? They go on to detail their…
Booksneeze Review: The Final Summit, by Andy Andrews
I heard Andy Andrews speak at last year’s Women of Faith event in San Antonio. He was an energetic and interesting speaker, and I was curious about his writing. The Final Summit is the sequel to The Traveler’s Gift, which I have not read. However, I suspect few readers would have trouble following the plot or characters. The Final Summit focuses on David Ponder as he travels time to save the world. There are life lessons delivered via cameos by Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln,…
Booksneeze Review: A Cure For the Common Life by Max Lucado
I started this book off with an eye roll or thirty, but once I got into it, I liked it. Lucado wants to help you find your “sweet spot in life”, where you feel like you are doing what you’re meant to be doing. The language is a little annoying (“you were born prepacked-for a purpose!”) BUT if you can see past that, the book is probably useful. And I will know more, once I have found the time to sit down and fill out…
>Booksneeze Review: No Place Like Holmes by Jason Lethcoe
>Holmes, get it? Sherlock? Okay, obviously that’s the jumping-off point for this YA novel, and it is s-l-o-w going at first. But, happily, it picks up and turns out to be quite an entertaining and uplifting story about a boy named Griffin Sharpe who is sent to London to stay with his Uncle “Snoops” for the summer. Turns out his uncle lives next door to the famous Sherlock Holmes. The rest? You’ll have to read it and see! Free (e-book) copy provided by Thomas Nelson…
>Booksneeze Review: The Waiting Place by Eileen Button
>This is one of the BEST books I’ve read recently (and I’ve read some good ones, too). Button describes points in her life when she was waiting for something-a birth, a death, a marriage, a bigger paycheck-and shows what was beautiful in those waiting moments. Highly recommend! Copy received thru booksneeze via thomas nelson publishers. I was not compensated, and I was not required to give a positve review. I mean it!
>Booksneeze Review: Doing Virtuous Business by Theodore Mallach
>My husband works in business and often expresses dismay at the many, many business people who find many, many ways to do business dishonestly. I’d hoped this book would give us some idea of businesses that choose to function virtuously, and how they do so. It may, in fact, be that book, but I had to just give up on it once I came to the section discussing Mel Gibson’s virtuous business practices. Whether I believe Mel Gibson is in fact doing business virtuously is…
>Booksneeze Review: Sabbath, by Dan Allender, Bob Abernathy, and William Boles
>I hoped this book would help me find new ideas for and thoughts about Sunday worship. Unfortunately, I found the language confusing and sometimes meaningless. I will be looking for better books on this subject. I received a free copy of this book through the publisher’s Booksneeze books for bloggers program. The review is my own and I was not compensated for it.
>BookSneeze Review: Dining With Joy by Rachel Hauck
> When I began to read Dining with Joy, I got confused. Hadn’t I read this book already? Recently? I flipped through the several pages I’d just finished and thought, and stared. Was this going to be a Christian version of Set Up in SoHo? Yikes. I was definitely not prepared to enjoy this read. I only continued because I was obligated to review it, having received a copy from Thomas Nelson Publishers. Happily, that obligation turned into a joy (oops, accidental pun). Though Set…
>BookSneeze Review: You Were Made to Make a Difference by Max Lucado and Jenna Lucado Bishop
> This is another young adult book. I loved it! It has an appealing cover and overall design (you know you like that in a book, too). It includes short stories about teenagers making a difference in the world by finding ways to help other people. Which ought to inspire anyone, of any age. Read it and help someone! I received a free copy of this book from the publisher the opinions expressed in this review are my own and I was not compensated for…
>BookSneeze Review: Wild at Heart:Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul
>Eldredge is coauthor of Captivating (with his wife, Stasi). The flap of the book jacket of Wild at Heart promises that inside the book, you’ll learn about how “every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.” What I came away with, however, was the impression that Eldredge believes that what every man really, really wants is to be the hero a movie. Among the movies whose plots are re-hashed for your inspiration are: Gladiator. Good Will Hunting. Braveheart. A…
