Non-Fiction
Orphaned Believers – Sara Billups
I’ve met a lot of orphaned believers in the past ten years. People who grew up in the church, usually the evangelical church, and now as adults find that they can no longer be associated […]
Articles by Josh Olds
Fiction
Four Blind Mice (Alex Cross #8) – James Patterson
Alex Cross returns! In what, by now, is an expected annual adventure, Cross is about to hang it all up and resign from the Washington DC Police Force when John Sampson lures him back for […]
Fiction
Violets are Blue (Alex Cross #7) – James Patterson
Violets are Blue puts aside some of the relational melodrama for a second and instead puts all the focus on a weird, macabre set of killers who seem more animal than human. It’s over-the-top, but […]
Fiction
Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas – James Patterson
The success of the Alex Cross novels allowed James Patterson to experiment. His previous non-Cross novel, When the Wind Blows, was a sci-fi, the non-Cross novel that followed this one—The Jester—was historical fiction. This one […]
Fiction
Roses are Red (Alex Cross #6) – James Patterson
It’s Alex Cross vs. The Mastermind. Roses are Red is Alex Cross’s sixth adventure and he’s up against the cleverest killer he’s faced yet. There’s also a lot of personal fallout from the events of […]
Fiction
When the Wind Blows – James Patterson
In a major departure from James Patterson’s previous work, When the Wind Blows is a sci-fi thriller that thrives on the fantastical. The story is about Frannie O’Neill, a young veterinarian, trying to grieve the […]
Non-Fiction
Flip It Like This – David Hayward (NakedPastor)
I think the first NakedPastor cartoon I ever saw was one of his most famous. It’s simple. Three women on the left, a crowd of men on the right, with the caption “So ladies, thanks […]
Non-Fiction
Between the Listening and the Telling – Mark Yaconelli
I’ve long believed in the power of telling stories. It’s one of the reasons for this website and definitely the reason why it was named Life is Story. When we think of our life as […]
Non-Fiction
How to Begin When Your World is Ending – Molly Phinney Baskette
In the acknowledgements at the end of this book, Molly Phinney Baskette writes that working title of this book was God is Not an Asshole. I really wish they had kept that title. Don’t get […]
Fiction
Hide and Seek – James Patterson
Hide and Seek was James Patterson’s first non-Alex Cross novel after finding fame with Among Came a Spider in 1994. (Just look at how prominent his name is on this first edition cover!) After two […]