For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire
9 best books like For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire (James Yee): Murder in Mesopotamia, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, Cat Among the Pigeons, Sad Cypress, Kappa, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer, A Letter of Consolation, The Lifted Veil
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007113803 |
One of the best rereads I've ever chanced upon. Few books of Agatha Christie's reserves are so unputdownable. The cast of characters in the book are not to be taken lightly. They enhance the story in spicy terms. I loved the easygoing pace of the book.
The victim is so vibrant when pages away from...
Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0062508865 |
I've been on a quest to read more about Islam, (so I will not be an absolute ignoramus about it, as Americans are often accused of being.). I've read a few books on the topic, but this is the first one I can honestly recommend. Karen Armstrong has not written a page-turner with this biography of Muhammad -...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0425205967 |
3 stars for this slow moving triple homicide mystery which I didn't like as much as others. When I first began this challenge a fellow Goodreads member, paulie, predicted that I would probably solve a case by August! But I was bowled over that I actually had both of the suspects figured out early on the book....
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007120710 |
Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor...
| Author | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa |
A patient in a mental hospital tells anyone who will listen his story of chasing a Kappa in the woods, when he fell down a hole and landed in Kappaland, a parallel world to the one above. And, by the way, friends he made in Kappaland come back to visit him nightly.
What’s a Kappa? It’s a scaly,...
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
| Author | Jim Mattis |
| ISBN | 0812996836 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.
Call...
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 0241337569 |
I found out about this short book (an essay rather) from a fellow bookstagrammer and it seemed intriguing.
The texts are now 30 years old and one has to take that into account when it comes to criticising technology. I can't say I agree with all the arguments and the overall line of thought but that's...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0060663146 |
In spring 1979, about 6 months after his mother's death, Nouwen wrote this as a letter to his father, wanting to talk about it. Later he decided to put this out as a book (with his father's permission), and I feel it was a wise decision. The fact that Nouwen lived in US and his father in Holland meant that the...
| Author | George Eliot |
| ISBN | 0976658305 |
Horror was my familiar.
Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous—gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic moralizing. It is unique from all her other writing, however, in that...
