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All athletes who desire to improve their abilities know they must train each day. In my effort to continually increase my personal and business knowledge I strive to keep a regular reading schedule, which includes books on business, cycling, US Presidents (my goal is to read a book on each one) and Christianity. As part of e-NOTE we will be bringing you a book review each month; and on special occasions, a young reader edition from my daughter Victoria’s reading collection.

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Happy reading!

Jeff McKinley
President

Life is Mostly Edges
A Memoir Calvin Miller

reviewed by Jeff McKinley

This book came to me as a gift, thank you Pastor Bob, and was definitely not on my reading list. I had two or three books already on the shelf waiting to be read.  I had no idea who Calvin Miller is, so I just started reading to get an idea of the book, and I was hooked. I enjoy reading biographies and autobiographies to learn how people work through the struggles and joys of life. In the end they usually impact me, and Life is Mostly Edges did just that.

Calvin Miller’s story is of a boy who started life in a one bedroom shack in Oklahoma, became a preacher, and ended up a scholar. From the very beginning of the book Miller’s memory of events and places came alive in his wonderfully descriptive story telling. Each story is told with an honesty that brings you right into Miller’s thought process. You will laugh, cry, and think about the events of Miller’s life that parallel your own. It is as if you become a close friend of Miller and he is telling you the personal inside stuff that most of us do not want people to know.

Here is an excerpt from the book.

“I know there are evangelical writers who say you shouldn’t kiss until you’re married, but they obviously never knew Barbara. Who could wait that long? Not me. It is true that when we kissed I often wondered what lay beyond the kiss, although we never went all the way until we both wore rings that told the world we were legally going all the way.”

I really enjoyed Miller’s writing style and his view of the world that shaped his life and how he in turn affected those around him. It is amazing to me that this book was penned in the recent past and that Miller started life with no running water, no electricity, no radio or television, had a good for nothing father and yet ended up touching so many people. I am captivated with the story of his life. The book challenged me to think about my own family. Am I doing the best I can do for them? In many ways we also live our lives mostly on the edges. I believe everyone would get pleasure from reading this wonderful memoir if for no other reason than to enjoy Miller’s story telling, or to grasp the transformation of America for those born before 1945 who are still alive today.

It is amazing to me that this book was written in the past couple of years and that Miller started life with no running water, no electricity, no radio or television and a good for nothing father and yet could end up captivating me with the story of his life.

Young Readers

The Trouble with Tink

reviewed by Victoria McKinley