Movie Review: The Invention of Lying

By Nike Chillemi

I both liked and hated this movie.

I liked that there were truly funny moments. I did laugh a lot in this movie, more so in the beginning. The second half was more thought provoking than the movie previews suggested.

Mark Bellison (Ricky Gervais, who also directs the picture) is having a terrible week. He lives in an alternate reality where everyone is compelled to spew out the brutally honest truth, at all times. It’s a world where people form opinions based on surface appearances, and where everyone’s out for themselves.

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Artist Spotlight: NeedToBreathe

By Anthony M. Corliss-Smith

Needtobreathe, a band based out of Seneca, South Carolina, are on their third album and they are starting to get people’s attention. Never before have I personally heard a Christian band so often played on secular radio stations. Bear Rinehart (lead vocals, piano, guitar), Bo Rinehart (backing vocals, guitar), Seth Bolt (backing vocals, bass), and Joe Stillwell (drums, percussion) must be doing something right.

Their Southern rock/blues style seems to defy definition, for each song seems to be different than the last and yet they all go together. Also, the honesty in the lyrics and music are unmistakable. You can definitely tell that they were all written by the same two guys, the Rinehart brothers.

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Book Review: Worth A Thousand Words

Written by Stacy Hawkins Adams

Reviewed By Michelle Sutton

About the book:

Life has always gone Indigo Burns’s way. She’s smart, pretty, and talented, and she knows exactly what she wants. A photography internship at her hometown’s local newspaper is the next step in her well-laid plans for her future. But her long-term goals are put to the test when her boyfriend Brian proposes–two years before he’s supposed to and in front of all the guests at her college graduation party. Too concerned about his feelings to say no, she heartily agrees, but inside she’s cringing….

My review:

Ms. Adams has an amazing ability to make the reader see a variety of perspectives without straying from Biblical truths. She doesn’t always wrap things up in a tidy manner. I love that. I also love that every book Ms. Adams writes gets me thinking about people I know or situations I am familiar with and may even be struggling with myself. Her stories are solid and emotionally deep without being manipulative of the reader’s feelings. They confront important decisions that young people need to make and challenge the reader to look at all angles.

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Artist Spotlight: Andrew Walden

By Laura Greenwood

Whether Andrew Walden is leading worship at his local church or hanging with his family and friends, there is an overwhelming presence of God in him. Andrew worked hard to release his first self-titled album in 2006, but it had limited availability. In June 2007, Andrew had a major step in his music career with the release of an EP that is available on iTunes.

And there is no difference in his music. “You broke the chains around us and gave us brand new life,” leads his self-titled EP in the toe-tapping song “You Are Holy”. Throughout this song, you are surrounded by the reinforcement of God’s love and light. Andrew’s light-hearted attitude and good-humored personality definitely shine through this fun and catchy tune, which will stay in your head for sure.  

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Love Finds You in Revenge, Ohio

Written By Lisa Harris

Reviewed by Lena Nelson Dooley

 ISBN 978-1-934770-81-8
Summerside Press
Historical Romantic Women’s Fiction

Back Cover Copy:

The only thing worse than being a spinster is being a twice-jilted spinster.

At twenty-five, Catherine Morgan is hardly an old maid.  But she’s given up on marriage and instead manages the family’s general store in the small town of Revenge, Ohio.  Bound by a promise to care for her three sisters until they marry, she’ll do anything to keep them safe.  But Sheriff Corbin Hunter stands in her way.  He has evidence that her sister’s fiance is really an infamous bank robber–and the man who murdered his father.  Catherine finds herself torn between saving her sister’s heart and losing hers to the man who jilted her seven years ago.  Will Corbin’s desire for revenge cause him to lose Catherine a second time?

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