This week in books - Week 1
Since I'm never one to come up with good ideas on my own, I'm taking the liberty to "steal" Catherine's idea and start my own "This Week in Books" feature around here. Not only will this give me incentive to actually start and finish books each week (I'm the world's greatest starter and the world's worst finisher when it comes to books. Don't even ask me how many books I have started right now...), but maybe some of you will enjoy hearing about the books I'm reading and my thoughts on them. My goal is to finish at least one book per week, though I'm hopeful it might be more, and I am only committing to blog this feature for the next 17 weeks, or until our baby arrives. After that, who knows if I'll be around to blog much at all.
Without further ado, this week I finished Fighting for Dear Life, an inside account of the story of Terri Schiavo, by the attorney who represented her parents in court, David Gibbs. I had been interested in getting a copy of this book when they advertised it on my blog awhile back but never got around to it. When I happened to see it at the library recently, I scooped it up. And am I ever glad I did.
I'm sure the name Terri Schiavo is well-known to most of you. However, though I had followed the case rather closely, there were many things in this book which I had not heard anywhere before. Since this book was written by someone who was obviously very involved in the case and very biased as to which "side" was right, I didn't know whether the book would be riddled with so much bias that it would be hard to discern truth. In reality, I found it to be a fascinating and terrifying read. Fascinating because it was well-written and Gibbs made an inexcusable case for Terri's life to be preserved based upon facts and legal grounds without dragging in a lot of villification for the other side. Terrifying in the sense that the horrific starvation and dehydration of an innocent woman could be authorized by our current legal system with many, many Americans backing the ruling, including many so-called "Christians." If Christians do not even value the sanctity of human life, what hope is there for our country?
Needless to say, I highly recommend the book. No matter what you think concerning the Terri Schiavo case, you should read this book.
Currently reading and hoping to finish this week:
Job
2 Corinthians
The Mother at Home by John Abbott
Sidetracked Home Executives by Pam Young and Peggy Jones (for the third time, I think - trying to smack some more order in my life before I have two babies afoot!)
How to Have a 48-Hour Day by Don Aslett
Without further ado, this week I finished Fighting for Dear Life, an inside account of the story of Terri Schiavo, by the attorney who represented her parents in court, David Gibbs. I had been interested in getting a copy of this book when they advertised it on my blog awhile back but never got around to it. When I happened to see it at the library recently, I scooped it up. And am I ever glad I did.I'm sure the name Terri Schiavo is well-known to most of you. However, though I had followed the case rather closely, there were many things in this book which I had not heard anywhere before. Since this book was written by someone who was obviously very involved in the case and very biased as to which "side" was right, I didn't know whether the book would be riddled with so much bias that it would be hard to discern truth. In reality, I found it to be a fascinating and terrifying read. Fascinating because it was well-written and Gibbs made an inexcusable case for Terri's life to be preserved based upon facts and legal grounds without dragging in a lot of villification for the other side. Terrifying in the sense that the horrific starvation and dehydration of an innocent woman could be authorized by our current legal system with many, many Americans backing the ruling, including many so-called "Christians." If Christians do not even value the sanctity of human life, what hope is there for our country?
Needless to say, I highly recommend the book. No matter what you think concerning the Terri Schiavo case, you should read this book.
Currently reading and hoping to finish this week:
Job
2 Corinthians
The Mother at Home by John Abbott
Sidetracked Home Executives by Pam Young and Peggy Jones (for the third time, I think - trying to smack some more order in my life before I have two babies afoot!)
How to Have a 48-Hour Day by Don Aslett
posted by Crystal Paine at 3:22 PM
3 Comments:
It sounds really interesting. I have been reading several books of people's experiences during the holocaust recently. Some of them were just incredible stories of how they praised God when they came out of it and others could not recover because they did not trust God! i just read Sidetracked Home executives again also! You have to read that every so often.....just to make you laugh if nothing else!
I have not read the book, but I did weep while I listened to Gibbs tell the story to the congregation of Lancaster Baptist Church. It is on the church website. There was sure a lot of misinformation out there, I'm glad he is publishing the truth.
Crystal,
I read both the Aslett title and the Home Executives books when I was a young girl- they are amazingly helpful- and funl! Hope you enjoy-
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