Category Archives: Books

Book Review: Lamb by Christopher Moore

By Adam Snider | Published: April 13, 2011

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore My rating: 4 of 5 stars Lamb:The Gospel According To Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal is a well-written, down-right hilarious take on the lost years of Jesus Christ’s life. What happened to Jesus (here called by his Hebrew name, Joshua) in the years between [...]

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Book Review: Green Oil

By Adam Snider | Published: March 29, 2011

Green Oil: Clean Energy for the 21st Century? by Satya Das My rating: 3 of 5 stars The book was interesting, but it lacked a coherent narrative. As such, it felt more like a textbook than a mass market work of non-fiction. It was a long read, despite it’s short length, as a result of [...]

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Book Review: Ethical Oil

By Adam Snider | Published: February 19, 2011

Ethical Oil by Ezra Levant My rating: 3 of 5 stars While I found the overall argument of the book—the oil from Alberta’s oil sands is the most ethical in the world—to be fairly convincing, I found a lot of Levant’s rhetorical tactics to be frustrating and over-the-top. He often employs the same techniques that [...]

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Book Review: Waiting for Columbus

By Adam Snider | Published: January 21, 2010

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to my Amazon.ca affiliate account. If you purchase anything after following these links, I’ll get a cut of the profit. A few days ago, I finished reading Thomas Trofimuk‘s excellent novel, Waiting for Columbus. I cannot recommend it enough. Yes, I know Trofimuk. We chat at Raving Poets and [...]

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My Life in Bullet Points

By Adam Snider | Published: January 12, 2010

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to my Amazon.ca affiliate account. If you purchase anything after following these links, I’ll get a cut of the profit. The past week has been pretty uneventful, but I have done a few things of note. I’ve also got a few things of note coming up, which will probably [...]

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Book Review: Jesus Was a Liberal

By Adam Snider | Published: January 7, 2010

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to my Amazon.ca affiliate account. If you purchase anything after following these links, I’ll get a cut of the profit. One of my goals for this year is to read at least 25 books. Last night, I completed book number one: Jesus Was a Liberal: Reclaiming Christianity for All. [...]

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