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The story focuses on a central crime, that of the disappearance of 19-year-old Zoe Nolan while at Manchester University back in 2011. True Crime Story is blurbed as being a deft blending of fact and fiction. This, I'm afraid, is where I don't think I can avoid spoilers of some kind. Even without knowing much about what to expect, from marketing alone, True Crime Story felt like something that would be placed in this sort of territory. #REVIEW IREADOR SERIAL#Examples of this would be Sarah Koenig's Serial where she uses a case to explore and educate listeners on the way in which the US justice system functions, Phoebe Judge's Criminal which really steers away from violent crime or Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone In The Dark, which fuses true crime with memoir and an exploration of the way in which online communities come together to assist in police investigations. What I do still enjoy though are projects where the topic of true crime is genuinely used in an interesting or even educational way. #REVIEW IREADOR FREE#I won't name names, simply because I don't want to offer any free promotion (I say that as though I’m currently drawing in thousands of regular readers! Aim big, right?). #REVIEW IREADOR TV#I try nowadays to limit the kind of material I read or watch, and I have a particular hatred for TV shows, literature and (let's be honest it's mostly these) podcasts that simply utilise crime as a vehicle for the hosts to bounce off for comedy or to revel in the shock and awe aspect of the crimes. Like many people, I have always been drawn to true crime but, through a combination of over consumption and, more recently, experiencing actual crime in real life (albeit peripherally), my appetite has both diminished and altered. I have a complicated relationship with true crime which is naturally part of the reason I picked it up in the first place but is also pertinent to how I feel having read it. I requested it on NetGalley and, with the information available, a) believed it to be a crime novel and b) knew the title was True Crime Story. When I say I knew nothing about the book, I really mean that. I haven't read a Joseph Knox novel before by the way, so I'd be intrigued to know how this compares with his other work because I'm getting the feeling it's quite different. It’s sort of fascinating as a writer to take this novel apart but, as a reader, I’m not completely sold. I finished reading it a few days ago and I'm still not sure what I think of it. #REVIEW IREADOR HOW TO#Disclaimer: I genuinely don't know how to review this book. Okay, welcome, welcome to all those who are still with me. So, if you think you'll read it, while I'll attempt as always to be spoiler free, I'm not sure how possible/helpful that is in this specific case and you might perhaps want to stop reading this for now. I read True Crime Story without knowing much about it and I think probably that's useful with this book. It will be a valuable resource for life, teaching, or preaching.Book Review | True Crime Story by Joseph Knox How we handle our money and possessions may well be the greatest determiner of rewards in eternity, as evidenced by the number of parables in which Christ addressed stewardship and accompanying rewards for shrewdness and faithfulness. I read one book that suggested that those who do not handle money well may not be going to heaven! I also recently heard a popular Christian financial advisor on the radio say that he thinks people who do not give adequate financial support to their pastor are not Christians.Įvery Christian faces daily decisions about stewardship issues. He is very careful to explain the difference between salvation and rewards and the conditions for each.Īlcorn’s perspective is refreshing compared to what some others are saying in relation to the Christian and finances. Here is a practical application of the grace view of rewards. What will be most exciting to grace-oriented readers is his second section, which discusses stewardship and eternal rewards. The first covers the problems of materialism, the second deals with money and possessions in relationship to eternity, the third concerns giving, and the fourth discusses how to handle money wisely and biblically. None came close to this one in thoroughness, clarity, depth, and biblical accuracy.Īlcorn groups his chapters in four sections. Before I found his book, I read or perused a half dozen others on the subject. #REVIEW IREADOR FULL#His study led to this twenty-one chapter book with five appendices and a study guide.Īs a pastor, I too set out to preach a three-message series on money, but like Alcorn, I soon discovered that there is too much said in the Bible about the subject for anything less than a full series. Paper, $10.95.Īs a pastor, Alcorn set out to preach a three-message series on money. ![]()
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