Lessons From San Quentin

Bill Dallas's book is autobiography and life coaching at the same time.  He was convicted of grand theft embezzlement as a high flying real estate big money player, and by a series of illogical events ended up serving his sentence in San Quentin.  It's a book that most people could benefit from.  The prisoner still incarcerated would be encouraged and those of us who may never see the inside of a prison for any reason will profit from the life lessons Dallas extrapolates from his five years in maximum security prison.  Going on the shelf for future lending to those interested in prison ministry and on the Amazon list for donations to prison libraries.  *****

The Miracles of Prato

Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz teamed to write a fictional account of the life of Fra Filippo Lippi in 1450s Prato.

There is a lot of good historical detail that seems to depict accurately the period and it propelled me to find much of Lippi's work on line, but it was essentially a piece of 'candy' literature and is headed out the door.

The  15th century Church is portrayed as a pretty nasty institution of very worldly people, and perhaps reflecting the authors' own backgrounds, there is little indication that any of those living and working within the establishment had any relationship with Christ.