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Ecclesiastes 4:12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Not only a moving account of the conversion of its author and his entire family, but also an instructive document.  Evangelical Protestants may learn the art of rediscovering the historically established Church.  Catholics can discover the clear logic of their faith. - Fr. Stanley L Jaki Those who know me well know that I left the Catholic Church then went back again when I was much, much younger.  More or less I have been back to this fold I am in for a quarter of a century.  I am still a progressive Catholic until now, for one reason or another, but each day, I am learning to embrace my faith.  I don't know everything yet.  I still backslide sometimes and to be honest, right now, I am struggling.  Not with my belief in God, but with the people who are messing with my heart and my brain.  There's a thin lin...

Kindle Price: $2.99 includes free international wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet Heather has given me a ticket to ride on a time machine and has made me witness first hand all her pains and struggles.  Her descriptions were very vivid and I felt helpless when I could not help her.  I am just a few years older than Heather, so probably I would have been helpless too.  Thank goodness, even with all the monstrosities that happened to her, done to her by different perpetrators, she still has a very good view in life and she has forgiven the culprits. Things like what happened to Heather and her sister, Tamara, are very real as real could be.  I am very fortunate because my father protects and so do most of my uncles, but their experiences are still close to home because people I know have experienced these things. Their perpetrators have crossed over already, and unlike Heather, they could not forgive their abusers. Take a ride in Heather...

I am a wide reader, but I never had the chance to read any work of Sabina  Murray , winner of the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award before I came across this book. The title was catchy: A  Carnivore’s Inquiry . Hmmm, it was very intriguing. Plus critics claiming she  created an entirely new genre called ironic gothic made me more curious to  what the content of this book was. As I turned the pages I could now say that the characters were very offbeat,  queer, funny and in a class of their own. The twenty-three year old European  heroine, Katherine, was very charming, but poignant and disturbing at the same  time. As Katherine narrates her life one would think that her being unbelievable  was a flaw of Murray, but that was how she wanted Katherine to be...at first. Her  peculiar appetite for the flesh is quite eerie.  The book as a whole is quite astonishing, but very entertaining. Some parts were  nail-biting experiences, but some w...