http://www.redbudbookclub.info Books fit for a Queen Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:17:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Talk about deconstruction! Bishop Spong takes the first section of the book to tell me that everything I was taught was untrue. No virgin birth, no star in the east, no miracles, no bodily resurrection. Then he takes the rest of the book to talk about why ... http://www.redbudbookclub.info/jesus-for-the-non-religious-john-shelby-spong I'm on a Lehrer roll. This book is his latest. Not as much mystery in this one, but plenty of humor. One of the main story lines involves the more-than-slightly-nutty Oklahoma governor "Buffalo Joe" Hayman. Hayman goes on a talk radio show program and announces that ... http://www.redbudbookclub.info/mack-to-the-rescue-jim-lehrer I'm not sure why Jim Lehrer chose Oklahoma for his One-Eyed Mack series -- he was born in Kansas, graduated from college in Missouri, started his career in Texas. Probably just envious because Oklahoma is a much cooler state than those three! One-eyed Mack is the lieutenant-governor of ... http://www.redbudbookclub.info/the-sooner-spy-jim-lehrer I don't know how Evanovich does it -- not a lot of variety in her setting and situations -- but she still has me reading and laughing out loud. This one -- and, if you haven't read one before, stop now and start with the with the beginning of ... http://www.redbudbookclub.info/fearless-fourteen-janet-evanovich The Paranormal Puppet Show is the first installation of the Invisible Detective series in which four clever kids combine their talents to become Brandon Lake, otherwise known as the Invisible Detective. Set in London in 1937 (but featuring an interesting time-twisting paradox I hope is eventually explained) the story ... http://www.redbudbookclub.info/the-paranormal-puppet-show-justin-richards Shining Darkness is also from the Doctor Who series. This one exchanges the likeable Martha for the consistently annoying Donna. And yet ... I really didn't hate Donna in this book. It wasn't that the author reinvented the character, he just found a way to exploit her ... http://www.redbudbookclub.info/shining-darkness-mark-michalowski Wooden Heart is a recent offering in the book series accompanying the popular television series Doctor Who. We join The Doctor (as portrayed by David Tennant, affectionately known to us hard-core fans as the 11th Doctor) and Martha as they explore a vast, deserted spaceship. Or maybe ... http://www.redbudbookclub.info/wooden-heart-martin-day Lately I have been reading a lot of kids' books. Not exactly intentionally, but because they were around. My husband has a small collection, half a dozen books, no more, from the new Doctor Who series and the tenuously related Invisible Detective series (written by former BBC books ... http://www.redbudbookclub.info/what-is-childrens-fiction Fans of the TV series Bones may be surprised to know that Dr Temperence Brennan was originally conceived in book form. Or maybe you won't be surprised. Maybe the interview on the DVD was a tip-off. Or the fact that Dr "Bones" Brennan writes novels on the ... http://www.redbudbookclub.info/break-no-bones-kathy-reichs Yes, I'm on a bit of a Discworld tear at the moment. And there's more to come, as I'm halfway through Soul Music as I write this. But my most recent completion was The Last Continent, referring to a location on the Disc - which, purely on the ... http://www.redbudbookclub.info/the-last-continent-terry-pratchett