This is the second book I’ve read by Kimberly Smith on music. This is forwarded by Frank Garlock and is very much in the mode in which he writes. I don’t necessarily disagree with these kinds of conclusions. However, I am a layman in the technical side of music and can’t say whether all the […]
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Long Ago Told
This is the seventeenth book I have read of the nineteen that Wright wrote. To be precise, this book was the fourteenth that he wrote, being published in 1929 by D. Appleton & Company. Long Ago Told is one of the more rare HBW books and is worth much more than most of the others, […]
Counter Culture
This is a free book on Amazon for Kindle. I downloaded it and read it—about a 20 minute read. I would not even report on it except that what Platt does here is interesting. He gives a short report on current moral problems in the US and the world (poverty, abortion, orphans, sex slavery, ethnicity, […]
Millennials Rising: the next generation
In April I reviewed The Fourth Turning by the same authors. I give this book more space in order to explain more fully the nature of these books (This is actually the fourth book). The “Millennials” are the generation after the GenXers. They are actually Boomer’s kids who last year (hence the name “Millennials”) entered […]
The Fourth Turning
This is not a Christian book (it is published by Broadway, 1997) but neither is it a non-Christian book. The authors trace 500 years of Western history in generations of 80-90 years. Within each generation there are four “turnings.” It is their proposition that our history has run in repeated and predictable cycles both by […]