New on Our Website...

*** New ERB Magazine Issue! (Fall 2018)

Featuring interviews with Jonathan Merritt, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso,
and Grace Ji-Sun Kim, the debut of John Wilson’s column “Time Out of Joint,”
reviews of new books by Alan Jacobs (reviewed by Philip Jenkins), Rachel Held Evans,
Jean Vanier, Parker Palmer, Kathy Khang, and MORE.
We are pleased to offer a FREE sampler of this issue:

 

Karen Swallow Prior – Fiction Reading List on the Virtues

Karen Swallow Prior’s reading list of 12 novels that have the potential to form virtue
in us. They are organized in the manner presented in the book. We recommend reading
these novels (or those you haven’t already read) in conjunction with ON READING WELL. 
(Half these novels are available as FREE ebooks!)


 

*** 5 Essential Ebook Deals for Church Leaders

( Wendell Berry, Walter Brueggemann, Anne Bogel, Brian Zahnd, MORE )





Our Feature Review for this week:
Transformed by the Power of Words.
A Review of Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures
and Transforming Power of a Reading Life.
by Sarah Clarkson (Paperback: Tyndale, 2018) 
Reviewed by Crystal Hurd.




Rachel Kushner – The Mars Room [Review]

The Free and the Lost.  A Review of  The Mars Room: A Novel 
by Rachel Kushner  (Hardback: Scribner, 2018)
Reviewed by Grant Currier

Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books