Posted Sun, 01/11/2009 - 10:44am by fred
Welcome to my new site - I'm still in the progress of getting all 300 of my existing book reviews on this site and I'm reading many new books as well. Please check back often for new content and thanks for checking out What Fred Has Read Dot Com.
Cheers, Fred
Posted Wed, 03/10/2010 - 2:43pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
March 2010
Publisher:
Knopf; Stated First Edition
Karen Armstrong is the author of 22 books on the world’s religions. A former Roman Catholic nun, she has become a full-time historian and one of the world’s leading commentators on the world’s major religions. I’ve now read 10 of her books. (For her books I've read, click on her name.) Read more
Posted Sat, 02/27/2010 - 5:49pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
February 2010
James Buchan is a novelist, critic, and contributor to the NYT Book Review and the NY Observer. He was formerly a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. He won the Duff Cooper Prize for Frozen Desire, an examination of money. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Tue, 02/23/2010 - 5:37pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
February 2010
Publisher:
Atria Books/Beyond Words
Ann Jauregui has been a practicing therapist, consultant, and teacher for more than 25 years. She is a cofounder and associate of Vine Street, a multidisciplinary center for healing arts in Berkeley, CA, and adjunct professor at the Wright Institute. The Foreword is by Huston Smith. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Sat, 02/20/2010 - 4:03pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
February 2010
David Kinnamon is president of The Barna Group. It provides research for spiritual transformation. He and George Barna report at www.barna.org. Gabe Lyons founded Fermi Project and Q, which educates Christians on their responsibility to renew culture. Read more
Posted Tue, 02/16/2010 - 7:26pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
February 2010
When written in 2003 Antonio Damasio was a Van Allen Distinguished Professor and Head of the Neurology Department at the Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine and also an Adjunct Professor of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla. (For his other books I’ve read, click on his name.) This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 9:14pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
January 2010
Publisher:
Harvest Books; 1 edition
When written in 1999 Antonio Damasio was a Van Allen Distinguished Professor and Head of the Neurology Department at Univ. of Iowa's College of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla. (For his other books I’ve read, click on his name.) This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Tue, 02/02/2010 - 2:20pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
January 2010
Garry Wills studied for the priesthood, took his doctorate in the classics, and taught ancient and New Testament Greek at John Hopkins University. I’ve also read his bestsellers What Jesus Meant (book 209) and What Paul Meant (book 210). Book 338 was a Christmas gift. Read more
Posted Sat, 01/09/2010 - 5:15pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
January 2010
This book’s predecessor – Does Anything Eat Wasps? – by New Scientist editors of the weekly magazine New Scientist was a surprise publishing sensation of the 2005 holiday season. Both are collections of New Scientist's ‘Last Word’ weekly column, with questions posed by and answered by readers. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Sat, 01/09/2010 - 3:42pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
January 2010
Elizabeth Strout is a faculty member at Queen’s University, Charlotte, NC, with short stories published in many magazines. She was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the English Orange Prize. Her books Abide with Me and Amy and Isabelle won prizes. And Olive Kitteridge won the Pulitzer Prize. Read more
