I love reading biographies. I haven’t always enjoyed them. In fact, I can remember a friend telling me he enjoyed reading biographies a few years ago, and I distinctly thought to myself “Why?” But my opinion of biographies has changed over the past few years. Reading the story of someone’s life can benefit my own…
Category: The Randleman Review
Book Review – The Confession by Robert Whitlow
Over the weekend, I read Robert Whitlow’s newest book, The Confession. Overall, I enjoyed the book. In the genre of legal thrillers, it isn’t the best I’ve read, but it wasn’t bad. The story line begins with Holt Douglas and a friend leaving a party drunk. An accident occurs, leaving the friend dead, and Holt…
Book Review – 1 Samuel For You by Tim Chester
I have been extremely impressed with the God’s Word For You series from The Good Book Company. Not necessarily categorized as commentaries, these books still do a pretty good job of taking the reader through a book of the Bible, passage by passage, and examining it in detail. The added benefit of this series is…
Book Review – A Deadly Business by Lis Wiehl
Legal thrillers are one of my favorite genres of fiction. I love such authors as John Grisham and Randy Singer. Last summer, I was introduced to a new author in this genre, Lis Wiehl. But Wiehl takes a different spin, at least in the two books I’ve read so far. Wiehl has introduced Mia Quinn,…
Book Review – Strange Glory by Charles Marsh
Several years ago, I read Eric Metaxas’ biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I absolutely loved that book. It introduced me to the details of the life of one of my favorite authors and theologians. So when Charles Marsh’s biography, Strange Glory: A Life Of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was released, I was excited to read it, to see…
Book Review – Critical Condition by Richard Mabry
Most of what I read is material that I find useful for my life, from my work in ministry to fatherhood, and every topic in between. Every once in a while, though, I like to grab a good fiction novel and enjoy some lighter reading for a change. Last week, I picked up a new…