Faith, Fiction, Friends

Last September, a movie about the Rapture – the “taking up” of believing Christians prior to the end times described in the Biblical bo...

I usually resist reading novelizations of movies. Often hurriedly written, based completely on a movie script, novelizations are often ...

The events that propelled teenager Chris Buckley into an ever-escalating horror story are coming to a head. The question is, will Chris an...

It’s been a while since I gathered up my “notes to self” and Post-Its and what-not, and had a Pleasantly Disturbed Friday. The pic...

I recently read Broken by Travis Thrasher , his twelfth novel and what I think is likely his best yet. Broken is only the latest in a ser...

Solitary, North Carolina, can be one creepy place. And dangerous. And it’s getting worse for a 17-year-old boy recently moved there from Ch...

Travis Thrasher has written a number of novels, in a number of genres – romance, suspense, contemporary adult and (borderline) horror. La...

Author Travis Thrasher is today associated with well written suspense novels like Isolation and Ghostwriter , including Solitary , the fir...

Once more, it’s that time of the week, when our intrepid leader Duane Scott officiates at Pleasantly Disturbed Thursdays. Yesterday, page...

Chris Buckley moves with his mother to a small mountain town in North Carolina named Solitary. She’s divorced her husband, who discovered Go...

My new post for Christian Manifesto, " A Storyteller First ," is about author Travis Thrasher. Let me know what you think. I revie...

What a ripping good story this is. Laila Torres works at a bank in Greenville, South Carolina. A co-worker, Kyle, is interested in her. She ...

It’s been a year since I started blogging. On March 19, 2009, I opened a Blogger account and set up a blog, with my first post called A Life...

My list of “good reads” today is shorter than last Saturday’s, and they were all posted before Tuesday evening. Then came the almost simulta...

Thomas Rowe awakens on an airplane bound for Chicago. Nothing unusual for most of us, except Thomas Rowe died 24 years before in a traffic a...

I’ve loved reading mysteries and suspense since I was six or seven years old. The first one I can remember reading was Trixie Belden and the...

I like how Travis Thrasher writes. He’s written 11 novels; I’ve read four of the most recent – Isolation , Sky Blue , Admission and now Gho...

I posted a review of Travis Thrasher's Admission at Amazon.com , and I won't repeat or recycle it here. It's sufficient to say ...

On Monday, I was interviewed for a project at work -- I'd been asked to read Tony Dungy's Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significanc...

I've been biding time with my reading, getting around to a few things I had put off for a while. Two books were related to work -- Roger...