Subject Tag: service

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Filed under: Fiction, Reviews

Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop profoundly moved me.
Perhaps it was Cather’s perfect capture of New Mexico: while I have never been to New Mexico, I feel I now can perfectly imagine the place, the pain, and the joy that the setting evokes. Also, while there are religious elements in the book (after all, [...]

Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth

Filed under: Child/Young Adult, Nonfiction, Picture Books, Reviews

I can finally recommend something related to the Three Cups of Tea story.
Remember how I hated listening to the audiobook of Three Cups of Tea, which felt like a journalistic report despite being called a memoir? My mother loved Three Cups of Tea and thought it was wonderful, so I enlisted her help in writing [...]

Three Cups of Tea: Counterpoints (Guest Post)

Filed under: Biography/Memoir, Nonfiction, Reviews

I disliked Three Cups of Tea; my mother loved it. Read our counterpoints.

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