4.5 Stars Back Cover: The boy belongs to the Sauk tribe, the last Native Americans to live east of the Mississippi River. He learns survival skills from other tribal members. He witnesses the introduction of horses and the influx of white men using steel traps instead of wood and rawhide snares to capture fur-bearing animals. [...]
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The Achilles Effect by Crystal SmithReview by Chris Singer
About the author:
Crystal Smith is a social media and marketing writer who has spent many years working with non-profit agencies seeking gender equality and an end to discrimination against women. After being regularly disappointed by the film and television offerings available to her two young sons, she decided to write about the impact of kids’ popular culture on young boys.
Crystal is a member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada
. She has an Honours B.A. in History and French, and a Master of Library and Information Science degree, both from the University of Western Ontario.When not writing or blogging about boys and pop culture, she provides pro bono social media marketing services to the Halton Women’s CentreThe Pixel Project
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By: Chris Singer,
on 11/18/2010
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Love’s Compass by Angus Nelson
Reviewed by: Chris Singer
About the author:
Angus Nelson lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife and three children. His desire to develop leaders and share his faith with others has led him to travel to five continents and twelve countries.
His life has been anything but boring. With a background in theology, he’s served as youth leader, worship leader, counselor, speaker, and now, writer. Throughout all this, he’s been a waiter, ski resort ticket checker, carpenter, telemarketer, and landscaper. He’s hosed chili vats, stuffed wood chips in bags, sold health club memberships, told off Jean-Claude Van Damme, and even helped Bruce Willis call his bookie once.
About the book:
Trying to find one’s true love is never an easy task. Along the way, there are often heartbreaks and turmoils that we wish we could forget. Wrong people. Bad decisions. How’d I end up here again? Not a typical, sterile self help book, this story grips your heart from chapter one and never lets go. Experience life through the eyes of a man who set out on a noble journey of finding his love, and ended up horribly losing his way. The revelations he made in the aftermath of torrid love affairs and battles with addiction are sure to help anyone who has experienced the craziness of love gone wrong in search of a life mate. Somewhere along the way readers will lose themselves in the struggles of this man, and cheer him on as he strives to find his way out the other side, all the while learning principles of love that are sure to change their own lives.
My take on the book:
In September, I attended the Modern Media Man Summit in Atlanta. At that conference, I met six or seven authors and brought home all of their books to review here on Book Dads. One of those authors was Angus Nelson and I was fortunate enough to catch part of his presentation. Angus is a charismatic guy and I really enjoyed talking with and getting to know him and his beautiful family.
The interesting thing about reviewing Angus’ book is that I met him before I had the opportunity to read his book. Usually you rarely, if ever, get to meet, let alone talk and spend time with the author of a book you have read. In this case though, I was fortunate enough to spend time and get to know him and I think it really made a big impact in how I read and took in Love’s Compass.
I was blown away by Angus’ deeply personal and heartfelt story. He shares things most of us would never admit publicly, or for that matter, admit to ourselves. I’m not sure I’ve ever read anything so honest. He opens himself up to the reader in ways most of us can’t imagine ever doing. In that revealing lies the beauty of this book, because it’s through this honesty and openness where we can most relate, and quite possibly light the spark we need in order to learn to forgive ourselves for the mistakes
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