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Here’s a weird combination. Novelist Cathy Day (“The Circus In Day”
decided to take her novelist skills and apply them to the story of her own life. But that’s not the weird part. Deciding to take inspiration from her beloved Indianapolis Colts, Day decides to spend the 2007 football season trying to change her love life and find true love. Or, as the press release says, “each week of the 2007 season, the Colts battle a new adversary as Day faces her own demons: her stalwart romanticism, indecisive men, and her biggest rival — the dating industry.
I couldn’t make this stuff up.
Also in non fiction, Ruth Peltason has interviewed cancer survivors for book, I Am Not My Breast Cancer, in which, according to the subtitle, “Women talk openly about love & sex, hair loss & weight gain, mothers and daughters, and being a woman with breast cancer.”
And Dr. Timothy Keller – the popular founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City — has released a new book, The Reason for God. In it, he offers no easy answers, but encourages people to wrestle with their doubts and fears. Keller’s church is extremely popular in New York, attracting 5,000 people — many of them young and single — every Sunday. By the second half of the book, Keller delivers his reasons for belief in God based on overcoming his own doubts over the years.
