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Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Saturday, June 12, 2021

The Shaytan Bride by Sumaiya Matin

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is a horrible story, but I mean that in a good way...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

The Conscience of an Agnostic by Robert K Cooper

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Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is a very short book, and frankly after reading it,...
Monday, May 3, 2021

Hinduism by Gregory Kozlowski

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Rating: WORTHY! It's strange to see a book about an Indian religion not written by someone with an Indian name, but the author see...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

The First Muslim by Lesley Hazelton

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Rating: WARTY! I am not a religious person. Not when I live in a world the worst of which we've seen in the USA over just the las...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

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Rating: WORTHY! Coming off the release of yet another children's work of fiction, and before I start on the next, it's time to...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

The Story of My Life by Farah Ahmedi, Tamim Ansary

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Rating: WORTHY! For my last review of 2019 I have found a real cracker! Books like this are essential reading because such a book almo...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

The Guineveres by Sarah Domet

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Rating: WARTY! This audiobook, read a bit like a chant by by Erin Bennet, started out well, but quickly became bogged down with pedanti...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas

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Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Errata: “...tinny screen light” - perhaps should ...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Atheism: The Case Against God by George H Smith

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Rating: WORTHY! This is a book which covers the ground which Richard Dawkins was accused of failing to cover in his excellent The God D...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai, Kerascoët

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Rating: WORTHY! I favorably reviewed Malala Yousafzai's I Am Malala back in August of 2015, and also Raphaële Frier's book abo...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Saints and Misfits by SK Ali

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Rating: WARTY! I had mixed feeling about this throughout. On the one hand I liked a lot of the writing, but on the other, the plot and...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

That Thing We Call a Heart by Sheba Karim

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Rating: WORTHY! This is ostensibly a high-school romance story, but it offered so much more than that. It begins during Shabnam Quresh...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu

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Rating: WORTHY! Rachel Walker is a seventeen-year-old who has been raised all her life in a Christian cult. I'd argue that all rel...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Quantum by Dean De Servienti

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Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. The first problem I encountered with this was that...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Mind Virus by Charles Kowalski

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Rating: WARTY! Mind Virus by Charles Kowalski This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I'm sorry I co...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Starbird Murphy and the World Outside by Karen Finneyfrock

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Rating: WORTHY! This amazingly-named novel, from an author I now intend to read more of, is about a teen-aged girl in a religious cult ...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown

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Rating: WARTY! This was an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. 'A hanging' ought to be the collective noun for...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

The Awakening by Lisa M Lilly

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Rating: WARTY! Unfortunately, this is volume one of the inevitable "Awakening" series, which I have no intention of following...