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This was the very first book I finished this year, and I LOVED it. I'm a sucker for time travel, fiction or otherwise, and King did an excellent job with his foray into it. One of the best King novels I've read in years.
I really enjoyed this book! I'm a Scrabble fan, but the people in this book have me beat hands down. Fatsis does an excellent job of becoming part of the community and giving us the lives of the pro Scrabblers. My only complaint is that there were a few places it got a bit more technical than it needed to be. Other than that: awesome!
I used this for an honors thesis on this very subject, and Joyce became the patron saint of my project. Her writing is incredibly approachable, and even for those not in the academic research of religion, this is an excellent book.
I originally picked up this book because I was writing an honors thesis on 20th century Evangelicalism, and I just fell in love with Radosh's voice! The book, while covering a broad and useful swath of Evangelical pop culture suitable for academic research, is written in an easily accessible manner, so that those with no background in Religious Studies can absorb it just as well.
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11/22/63 by Stephen King
dawn betts-green, January 2, 2012
This was the very first book I finished this year, and I LOVED it. I'm a sucker for time travel, fiction or otherwise, and King did an excellent job with his foray into it. One of the best King novels I've read in years.The Well of Loneliness: A 1920s Classic of Lesbian Fiction by Radclyffe Hall
dawn betts-green, December 12, 2011
A classic of lesbian fiction that often gets left off lists. I read this not too long after coming out, and I loved it.Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fatsis
dawn betts-green, July 21, 2011
I really enjoyed this book! I'm a Scrabble fan, but the people in this book have me beat hands down. Fatsis does an excellent job of becoming part of the community and giving us the lives of the pro Scrabblers. My only complaint is that there were a few places it got a bit more technical than it needed to be. Other than that: awesome!Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce
dawn betts-green, May 18, 2011
I used this for an honors thesis on this very subject, and Joyce became the patron saint of my project. Her writing is incredibly approachable, and even for those not in the academic research of religion, this is an excellent book.Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh
dawn betts-green, May 18, 2011
I originally picked up this book because I was writing an honors thesis on 20th century Evangelicalism, and I just fell in love with Radosh's voice! The book, while covering a broad and useful swath of Evangelical pop culture suitable for academic research, is written in an easily accessible manner, so that those with no background in Religious Studies can absorb it just as well.1-5 of 21next