…arker, and contain more adult content, than they did when they were children. They worry that other parents who fondly remember the Spiderman and Hulk of their childhoods, will unknowingly expose their children to these comic books, especially now that Disney is going to be the parent company. They’re not convinced that Thor can come down from Asgard and peacefully coexist with Tinkerbell in Anaheim and Burbank where Disneyland and Disney S… Continue reading
…arnings of $844 and $860 respectively while those who are 25-34 earn $682 weekly. The 20-24s only earn $454 a week. – Source: NY Times, 05/14/11. ** Self-Publishing is Becoming Simpler According to Amazon, one of the top booksellers in America, self-published books are becoming more common and successful. Titles that are self-published account for more than 100,000 new print titles a month, many of which are selling more than titles with pub… Continue reading
…nly disappear. Eventually, these mysterious disappearances threaten Rearden and Dagny’s future. ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I is surprisingly entertaining, and the filmmakers are to be commended. Alfred Hitchcock used to say the best books make the worst movies, and some of the best-selling books have bombed as movies, such as BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES, THE NAME OF THE ROSE and THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. Why did they bomb? Because books often succeed by… Continue reading
2016: OBAMA’S AMERICA is a documentary made by Ivy League Dartmouth graduate and conservative Christian pundit Dinesh D’Souza. It explores the historical and political background of President Barack Obama. Dinesh is known as a Christian apologist, conservative pundit and scholar. The documentary is based on his books OBAMA’S AMERICA and THE ROOTS OF OBAMA’S RAGE. In the books and the movie, he criticizes Obama’s roots and background. He reveals… Continue reading
Editor’s Note: If you have not read the book or seen the movie, please be aware there are some plot spoilers in the following discussion. Erudite Christian author and evangelist/philosopher C.S. Lewis was pretty clear about the basic Christian symbolism in the seven books of his children’s classic, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. For instance, the author once wrote about the character of Aslan, the Son of the Emperor Beyond the Sea: “He is an inventi… Continue reading
…Peace & World Affairs, more than half of non-religious American youths born since 1981 have abandoned their childhood faith. The problem also applies to conservative ideals. In 2007, 46 percent of Millennials agreed that books with “dangerous” ideas should not be permitted in public school libraries, but only 28 percent agree with that idea in 2012. Similar declines can be found in other social conservative values measured by Pew, such as id… Continue reading
…in college. When the young student attempts to overdose on his prescription medication, Jesse overcomes his aversion to flying and flies out to visit him in the hospital. He advises the young student to throw away depressing books and read books that will uplift and inspire him in life. [SPOILERS FOLLOW] Ultimately, Jesse meets a bookstore owner who’s “age appropriate” and falls in true love with her. He writes Zibby once again, sending her good… Continue reading
THE MYSTIC MASSEUR is based on a novel by Nobel winning author V. S. Naipaul. In the story, a naïve Hindu teacher named Ganesh returns to his rural home on the Caribbean island of Trinidad when his father dies. Ganesh decides he wants to write books. He writes a book answering questions about the Hindu religion, then becomes a mystic handing out sage advice to the people. Ganesh develops a huge following and decides to enter politics. As a polit… Continue reading
…s broken the sacrosanct rules of vampire secrecy, compromising their community invisibility. Bella hitches a ride to Port Angeles with some of the girls looking for gowns for the prom. She breaks from them and goes to a local bookstore-cafe and buys a book about local vampire legends. Bella begins reading it alone, zeroing in on local Quileute legends, seeing the critical pattern – that these creatures evidence superhuman strength, are pale… Continue reading
…e characters believable, and the reader guessing where it will all end. After young protagonists Jack and Ellayne rang ancient King Ozias’s bell on faraway Bell Mountain, strange things unfolded in the first two Bell Mountain books, with prophets who could be understood in any language and a Temple elite of a decadent religion quaking before growing evidence that the One True God was reasserting Himself. Meanwhile, the land of Obann is inva… Continue reading
