BOOK REVIEW – Consider the Ostrich: Unlocking the Book of Job and the Blessing of Suffering

by Scott Douglas (Author), Kevin Wagner (Narrator), SD Editions (Publisher) An audiobook review  by Jackie Houchin What a fun book on the topic of suffering! Scott Douglas takes readers through the Bible book of Job step by step, chapter by chapter. He has new insights about when the book was written, who Job was, who his pack of friends were, what/who…

BOOK REVIEW – The Ghost Map

by Steven Johnson (Author), Alan Sklar (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin Steven Johnson’s THE GHOST MAP is an amazing history about a disease, a doctor, and a parson who tracked, and eventually mapped the mass destruction that cholera brought to Victorian London in the 1850’s, and how, due to their persistence and that of a…

BOOK REVIEW – Frozen In Time: an Epic Story of Survival

Mitchell Zuckoff (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin    Frozen In Time is an extraordinary true story about WWII servicemen on missions who crashed their war planes on Greenland’s ice cap in 1942-3 and the daring and sometimes unsuccessful attempts at rescuing them. It’s about human survival under unendurable circumstances, valor, and selflessness beyond…

Book Review: What Happened at the Cross, the Price of Victory

an audio book review by Jackie Houchin What Happened at the Cross by Billy Graham, narrated by Milton Bagby This audio book brought back memories of the Billy Graham Crusades I’ve attended or watched on television. First there are some awesome vocalists with beautiful, heart-rending songs. Then Billy might make a few comments about someone…

Book Review: A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and A Great War

by Joseph Loconte A Mini Book Review by Jackie Houchin This is a non-fiction book, showing how the horrors of war – while personally devastating to the famous authors C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien – were nevertheless experiences that prompted them to write their popular fantasy and allegoric books. In the first chapters,…