Cody Hall

This one ended with a bang. Excellent story, pacing, and character development. Looking forward to #5.

I didn’t make it all the way through this one before the Libby due date last time, so a few months later (after a long hold) I’m back at it. This is a popular one in a popular series and it’s easy to see why.

I finished this one this week. Great little book with practical insight into helping those you’re counseling overcome anger in their lives. From the Goodreads summary:

Anger is widespread; it is even a major problem among professing Christians. While people express anger in different ways, controlling it is a challenge for each of us. Some feel powerless as anger rises. Others try to justify themselves. The question that must be addressed is how a sinfully angry person can become a person of grace. This mini-book provides the answer and gives us hope by directing our attention to the power of Christ to transform angry people into gracious people.

I picked this one up from the library last week and it is engaging. It’s paced well, starting out with the classic recounting of the key-on-a-kite experiment that proved the connection between lightning and electricity.

From the Goodreads summary:
In Ingenious, Richard Munson recovers this vital part of Franklin’s story, reveals his modern relevance, and offers a compelling portrait of a shrewd experimenter, clever innovator, and visionary physicist whose fame opened doors to negotiate French support and funding for American independence. Munson’s riveting narrative explores how science underpins Franklin’s entire story—from tradesman to inventor to nation-founder.

I got this one from my brother as a Christmas gift. I love it when people get me books from my Want To Read list on Goodreads *hint hint*. Cahill chronicles how Irish “monks and scribes laboriously, lovingly, even playfully preserved the west’s written treasures.” I’d never heard about this “little-known ‘hinge’ of history” and Cahill has written a page-turner here.