Two irresistible books showed up in the mail yesterday. I think I’ve overindulged in review books (again!) and am going to have to have a serious sorting session to focus on just one (or two) at a time. That partly accounts for the fact that I have far too many books partially finished. But when [...]

The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters My rating: 4 of 5 stars The date that everybody knows is October 3, six months and eleven days from today, when a 6.5-kilometer-diameter ball of carbon and silicates will collide with Earth. Reading this book, I mused that perhaps all this science is not the best thing [...]

We bring the big guns to A Good Story is Hard to Find when we discuss Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).