The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red Review

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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red ReviewThis fictional diary is a companion to the upcoming ABC mini-series - Stephen King's Rose Red, to air three nights at the end of January. Stephen King wrote the original teleplay about Joyce Reardon, PhD, who investigates a long-believed haunted house in the Seattle area with the help of an autistic 16 year old girl. This diary provides additional background to the story, supposedly written by Ellen Rimbauer, mistress to Rose Red, the haunted mansion. It is written in the tradion of The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, of Twin Peaks fame. I would be extremely surprised to discover that Mr. King himself wrote this account, due to the overly dramatic, extremely feminine tone and viewpoint. Mr. King's writing is much more straight forward,and usually his stories are told with a distinctly male voice. I enjoyed this book. Because it is in journal form, it is easy to forgive the overly dramatic nature of some of the passages, and some of the writing problems. It is, in my opinion, a brilliant marketing stragegy a la the Blair Witch Project on the part of Hyperion Books and the producers of the mini-series. The book comes complete with references to a website for the fictional university where Dr. Reardon holds her chair, and provides pictures and additional background. As a fan of Haunted House stories, and horror in general, I was very satisified with the overall experience of The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer.The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red Overview

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Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling Review

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Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling ReviewSomeone once told me that our twenties are about figuring out who we are, and our thirties are about figuring out what we should be doing with our lives. I'd say that's about right, in my own limited experience. A mid-career switch from a steady and well-paid job I was good at to a couple of iterations of a new vocation I'm not sure I'm good enough at--this has been the story of my life in my thirties, and I've sometimes gotten pretty lost in all of it. The Church's varied, and usually unsolicited, opinions on these matters often don't help at all.
"Culture Making" offers sharp insight into the issue of vocation, delivered methodically, yet beguilingly, via elegant and sometimes beautiful prose. Andy Crouch sets the scene and tells the story of culture, then rapidly sweeps the reader into this story, finishing with a heart-stopping, imagination-grabbing, challenge to go and make something of the world.
After defining the terms--culture is what we make of the world, creating new culture is the only way to change culture (although gestures of condemnation, critique, copying and consumption may certainly have validity)--Crouch filters the biblical story from Genesis to Revelation through the lens of culture, then addresses our role as co-creators and cultivators with God in this world and the next (it's filled with co-created cultural goods that pass what I call the `new Jerusalem test', and the idea takes my breath away). While all three sections of the book are tightly integrated, it is this third section, entitled "Calling", that really sings.
Crouch's broad definition of culture making--the introduction of any cultural good--is also liberating for those of us with a narrow view of vocation. Essentially--we can, and must, be creative in every area of our life, because we bear the image of our creator. This is must-read stuff, and not just for artists (although I think artists will really sink their teeth into this one). It's food for thought for any Christian wishing to make a meaningful contribution to their world. It certainly has contributed deeply to my own thinking about vocation.Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling Overview

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Darkest Child: A Novel Review

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Darkest Child: A Novel ReviewRemember the 70's television comedy called Good Times? It seemed good things rarely happened to the Evans family and you frequently found yourself wishing for something great to happen that would whisk them out of their unfortunate existence. Well, The Darkest Child is like the literary equivalent of Good Times, except this story takes place in a house on Penyon Road, somewhere in the state of Georgia during the late 50's. And this time the sorrows and afflictions experienced by the family comes at the hand of the mother, Rosie, a woman who inflicted so much abuse on her ten kids that you cannot keep up.
The story is narrated by Tangy Mae, a fifteen year-old woman/child that the mother labels as ugly. The mother sleeps with men, chain smokes, drinks, cries, yells, and does all kinds of unusual and disturbing things that make the reader feel sorry for the kids and wonder about their eventual outcome.
The Darkest Child's strength lies in its commanding writing voice and vivid descriptions. Some of the painful scenes make you physically react, as if you're being abused instead of the children.
The worst thing about the book is there are far too many characters; you may not feel attached to each of them or remember which one is which, but the story is still compelling enough to keep you drawn to the characters' dilemma. In addition it would have been great if the mother's behavior was explained so the reader could know her motivations behind her horrendous actions.
This book is highly recommended because of its originality, excellent writing, and unpredictability, and because, as far as I know, there aren't too many books that can be compared to The Darkest Child. It is an engaging and dark read that won't be soon forgotten.Darkest Child: A Novel Overview

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