Jane: 
 Before Gina Welch’s final preparations for the Alaskan Salt and Light Evangelical mission, her mother arrived for a visit.  They had a great conversation about a Phillip Roth public radio interview. Roth had told the …

Jane: 
Gina Welch’s journey into the world of Thomas Road Baptist Church began with her experience at the Scaremare house of horrors/sins.  Room after bloody, shocking room depicted a multitude of sins.  After being told that …

LIZZIE
Well, Jane and I are feeling quite official as book reviewers now–seems our piece last year on Kevin Roose’s Unlikely Disciple was unearthed by a marketing director at Henry Holt Publishing.  And, as a result, …

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Jane: 
So last week found me lagging in my reading of Committed.  Lots to do around the house, with the kids,  I wasn’t making the time to sit and …

So, to continue from the last post, why did the lovely, exuberant, enjoyable restless, replete-with-sensory-feasting memoir Eat, Pray, Love sit on my shelf for months during 2008/2009?  And why did it finally come off the …

Jane
So I have to admit, before I even began to read this book, there has been a tremendous amount of conversation going on around me regarding Elizabeth Gilbert, and Eat …

JANE 
I am a frequent, if not daily reader of Salon.com and the other day I came across this article.  It was an excerpt from the book, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest …

I promised to write more about Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, and (having just listened to the last chapter of the splendid, sparkling, accent-rich audiobook version narrated by John Lee), I think that …