Game of Thrones has be receiving increased popularity over the last several months as George R.R. Martin’s series of novels (the first five are currently published) are being made into an HBO series. While the HBO series seems to be greatly exaggerating the number of scenes including sex, nudity and incest, it appears fairly accurate […]
Toni Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye, centers around the complexity of race and how this determines beauty. While Morrison wrote the novel in the late 1960s, she was contemplating an encounter from her childhood. Morrison recounts in the preface that she was confounded as a child when her friend, another African-American girl, wanted to […]
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s 2004 novel, is one that I have heard a lot about for several years. It is one of those books that seems to come up in discussions of favorites. The novel won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In addition President Barack Obama lists Gilead […]
If you could go back in time to change our current future, would you? And even more importantly what would you change? This is the very question posed to 30-something, divorced, High School English teacher Jake Epping by his odd frycook friend Al. Al discovers a “rabbit-hole” in the supply closet of his restaurant that […]
One of my favorite theological concepts to study is eschatology. Eschatology, or the study of “last things,” centers around what we as Christians believe will happen at the end of time, what happens to our souls and bodies after death, and what the afterlife might look like. While the questions that eschatology asks may seem […]
Stieg Larsson’s 2005 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a multi-layered crime/mystery novel. Interestingly enough the entire Millennium Trilogy, or series, was published in Swedish after Larsson’s death in 2004. The American version of the movie recently went to theaters, while the 2009 Swedish version is instant streaming on Netflix. The Girl with the […]