by Charles Martin
My daughter chose to read this book for summer reading for her Honors English class. We knew nothing much about the book and absolutely nothing about the author. My daughter has dyslexia and it typically takes her awhile to get through a book. She read this book in two weeks. (Excellent timing for h...
The thing about literary fiction, Christian or otherwise, is you have to love the language. To be done right, an author needs to value things like sentence structure, placement of words, and economy of prose. In WHEN CRICKETS CRY, Charles Martin gets two out of three right. His sentence structure is...
The GoodIt was readable and I finished (lately that has been rare for me). I also read it a month ago and had no problem remembering details to write a review. I think the underlying story was good just not executed very well. The BadSome sections of writing we're the definition of "trying to hard...
I highly recommend this 5-star read of a book. It's a love story. No, I don't mean of the romance genre, though there's romance in it. It's a LOVE story -- with a lot of heart, literally, and on many other subtler but profound levels. It's a book, that in one story, paints a picture using the palett...
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