Click to Buy Reviewed by Rhett DeVane A masterful blend of history and fiction, The Glass Madonna, by Donna Meredith, provides a window into one woman’s hard-scrabble journey from abuse and neglect to independence and self-reliance. Sarah Stevens comes of age during the ’70s: a time of liberation and sexual freedom for women. But old […]
Fastor Pastor by Sharyn McCrumb and Adam Edwards
February 15, 2011 by 1 Comment
Reviewed by Paul H. Yarbrough Click to Buy It’s difficult to corral a book review around a few hundred words when you have enjoyed almost every last multiple-thousands of them; nevertheless, in a nutshell, the novel, Faster Pastor, by Sharyn McCrumb and Adam Edwards is a wonderful story. McCrumb has put together a superb […]
Author B. Wayne Quist Discusses God’s Angry Man
February 2, 2011 by 1 Comment
B. Wayne Quist has been writing for over 40 years in the fields of national security, political science, and history. In addition to God’s Angry Man: The Incredible Journey of Private Joe Haan, which was selected as SLR’s February Read of the Month, Wayne co-authored The Triumph of Democracy Over Militant Islamism (2006) and Winning the War on […]
February Read of the Month: God’s Angry Man, by B. Wayne Quist
February 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Christopher Bundrick God’s Angry Man: The Incredible Journey of Private Joe Haan paints a very interesting picture of a mid-twentieth century American experience. A sort of American everyman, Joe Haan might represent our sense of what’s best about this country. Like Huckleberry Finn (born just a little further south on the Mississippi), Haan […]
Mark Mustian Discusses His Latest Book, The Gendarme
January 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Written by Donna Meredith A desire to understand the dark force that allows people to participate in a genocide led Mark Mustian to choose a Turk rather than an Armenian as the narrator of his novel, The Gendarme. The choice may appear unusual at first, since Mustian is of Armenian heritage himself. “Perhaps it comes […]
January Read of the Month, The Gendarme by Mark Mustian
January 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed By Donna Meredith The Gendarme, by Mark Mustian, is a brilliantly conceived and carefully crafted novel about the Armenian genocide that took place during and immediately after World War I. The choice of a 92-year-old Turkish man living in Georgia as narrator is one of the author’s bold decisions. Emmett Conn has a brain […]