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Looking for book recommendations? You’ve come to the right place 🙂 I read 100+ books a year, on average, and here I list my top recommendations for avid readers to find their next read, beginning with… The Brilliant Writer Reading List Annual Book Lists 2020 Top Picks After Reading 130+ Books in 2020, These …
An original system for dissecting & designing the best stories. Fiction isn’t just for entertainment. Human beings are WIREDÂ to consume, create, and be affected by stories, both good and bad. Which means that a well-told story can change lives more powerfully and efficiently than hours of lectures or stacks of dry philosophy books. But do …
Win an Audience: This is why people should listen to YOU So you want to have an audience for whatever it is that you write. But here’s the sad truth: Audience-building (and maintaining) is hard. It takes a lot of work to nurture the kind of audience you want (attracting the right people, repelling the wrong …
How do you make sense of an all-powerful and loving God who doesn’t heal you? That’s one of the biggest questions in the world, one that we all have to wrestle with at some point or other in our lives. And it’s a question that The Chosen attempts to address in this latest episode of …
In this episode, Judas (yeah, THAT Judas) gets his official invite to join Jesus’ team. Plus, we see a little more of Matthew’s backstory, and how and why he betrayed his people to join the employ of the (better-paying) enemy. (It would seem betrayal is in the air, past and future…) In other news, the …
In this episode, real life is woven into a fictional retelling of real life: Jesus picks up a disciple modeled after the director’s own failure*, a new experienced disciple joins the team and takes a special interest in the outcast Matthew, and cold, calculating Matthew finally starts to let someone in on his mental life, …
Isn’t it convenient how this monthly TBR game ends up picking certain themes all on its own? In October, it turns out that the theme of the month was “love.” But not romantic love — “REAL love” (in the words of one of our featured titles). This month, we have books on: Real love (what it is, …
September 2022 Book Report [Tic-Tac-TBR Wrap-Up] Last month’s reading roundup included a fantasy adventure series by a new favorite writer, a graphic novel about a group of people living in perpetual daylight who use a sand-based magic system, a mystery about a new grandpa (or two) searching for their new granddaughter’s missing drug-addled mother, and …
A rare thing has happened: I may have found a new favorite author. It’s been a long time since I’ve enjoyed fantasy, much less a middle grade fantasy series, but after stumbling on Brandon Mull via my research on another author named Brandon, I’ve devoured his books in a way that I haven’t done in …
Sad fact of life: Everything has a cost. That includes both good and bad things. And the best (read: most interesting) stories, fiction or nonfiction, reflect that reality. That’s what this last month’s random collection of reads reinforced. From a book about how the so-called “underdogs” may actually have strengths that the “giants” aren’t aware …
Anyone up for a little religion and psychology this month? Those are the topics covered in the books I read in June, anyway. It was definitely a much lighter-than-usual reading month, and yet I still somehow managed to knock out enough books to put on the TBR board. (Thanks, audiobooks!) So here we go, deep …