The Cafe Scholar

Do you remember The Hunger Games? The first time you saw it? I do. I was washing dishes in my parents’ kitchen, while my dad and my little brother watched in the next room. It was that scene in the beginning. Katniss steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Hunger Games.  She puts her life on the line…
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They almost all have daddy issues, and they’ve all experience loss. They’ve all lost a family member somehow. They all come from pretty messed up families, and that’s probably why they’ve made their own family, over the course of the previous books in the series (which I haven’t read yet).  Hearing about who Delilah used to be, it’s amazing that she ended…
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Y’all, I’m mostly an equal opportunity reader, but I do have some favorites.  Ok. I have enough “favorite” types of fiction that it’s easier to say what doesn’t catch my interest. But I’m a history nut too, and so historical fiction is a lot of fun.  Frontier stories are some of my favorites (along with WWII or Cold War-era spy novels…but…
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I didn’t plan it this way. I didn’t plan to read this book, this week. I didn’t plan to read A Life of Creative Purpose, while wrestling with my own. I signed up to review this book months ago, put it on my calendar, and forgot about it. But God knew what he was doing.  It was the book I…
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