I’m always surprised to see that one of the top posts on this blog is my review of The Hunger Games. There are a lot of reviews of this book (or the movie) out there right now, and I am continually seeing new ones that bring out other points I didn’t see or didn’t expound […]
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Some Other Perspectives on “The Hunger Games”
Posted in Book Reviews, Controversies, Movie Reviews, Reviews, Simmer Starters on May 18, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Further Thoughts on Heaven: The Limits of Imagination
Posted in Controversies, Scripture, The Bubbling Imagination on May 16, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Our church sends out a monthly newsletter, which usually includes articles from other pastors and theologians which our pastor has read recently and wants to share with the congregation. This month’s issue came today, and included a review of Randy Alcorn’s Heaven, which I have been wanting to read for awhile. As I scanned the review, […]
Thursday Ramblings – 2.16.2012
Posted in Controversies, My Life, Quotes, Rants, Writing on February 16, 2012 | 5 Comments »
It has been a fortnight since I blogged! Oh, dear. I am going to skip the endless apologizing I always do, and go back to blogging (hopefully) as if it never happened… Reading This Week: No fiction. Lots of miscellaneous research. Writing This Week: My dystopian novel, Daik 11, is on rapid boil! Two weeks […]
Harry Hater to Potterhead: A Christian Reader’s Journey (Part II)
Posted in Book Reviews, Controversies, Reviews on January 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The end of Part I left off when I, onetime vicious detractor of Harry Potter, went to the library and checked out Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I wanted to read the series for myself, to understand whether my former opinions were true, as well as to scope out what made the bestselling books […]
Harry Hater to Potterhead: A Christian Reader’s Journey (Part I)
Posted in Controversies, My Life on January 12, 2012 | 8 Comments »
I must have been barely a teen when the Harry Potter craze struck, sweeping all our friends away with it. I don’t remember asking to read the books, or even if the first movie was out yet. I just recall that many of our friends were obsessed, and my parents made the decision to ban […]
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Bethany A. Jennings is a YA speculative fiction and poetry author, a freelance editor, and a lover of artisan sandwiches. Born in SoCal, with a heart and soul raised in many different worlds, she now lives happily in New England with her husband, four children, zero pets, and a large and growing collection of tiny houseplants. She is a firm believer in the power of words to reach hurting hearts, uplift the weary, and pierce the darkness.
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