by Pepper Basham | Jun 28, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
While we were in England, Dwight and I attended a small church of our friends, Jon and Sharon England. It was a nice benefit that Dwight had the opportunity to preach there as well. Our new acquaintance, Eddie (whom we’d met on a walk) came too. I can’t...
by Pepper Basham | Jun 24, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
Three supernatural gifts. Two thousand years of division. One moment of truth. Hannah’s head hung, long brown hair in her eyes. Her face felt pasty with cold and fatigue and pain. Arms behind her back, she sat in a chair, wrists and ankles tied to the wooden...
by Pepper Basham | Jun 22, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
I was having one of those high anxiety nights where sleep seemed as possible as crossing the ocean on a bicycle. My head spinned, tangled and twisted by hundreds of unrelated thoughts. My heart pulsed and my stomach boiled. I wanted to crawl outside my skin for ten...
by Pepper Basham | Jun 20, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
If you like stories with humor, romance, faith, and the great western frontier, Deanne Gist can provide you with all of those and much more in her book A Bride in the Bargain. Author of (my personal favorite) Deep in the Heart of Trouble, Deeanne brings her historical...
by Pepper Basham | Jun 10, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
Ancient language expert Samantha Yale returns to translate a new batch of scrolls written by the fallen angel from Lucifer’s Flood. Samantha Yale has taken on a daunting translation project. A set of scrolls, delivered by a man she knows nothing about, tells a...
by Pepper Basham | Jun 9, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
In Rebecca McClanahan’s book Word Painting, she explains the difference between explanatory words and descriptive words. This definition really hit home with me to help with my understanding of the using words that count; heavy-weight words. :-)Explanatory words...