Kyle's Updates en-US Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:02:09 -0700 60 Kyle's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7528764663 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:02:09 -0700 <![CDATA[Kyle added 'Annihilation']]> /review/show/7528764663 Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Kyle gave 4 stars to Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer
Wild. I feel like I like the movie more, but they’re just different enough to be hard to compare. Great book though. Look forward to the next one. ]]> ReadStatus9359650745 Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:38:46 -0700 <![CDATA[Kyle wants to read 'Code Name: Pale Horse—How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis']]> /review/show/7523867213 Code Name by Scott Payne Kyle wants to read Code Name: Pale Horse—How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis by Scott Payne
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Reads like a more biblically sound divine comedy. One where the Bible was actually read and understood before writing this story. Kind of would have liked to see what this would look like if it was a bit of a longer story. ]]> Rating851047132 Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:16:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Kyle Bartsch liked a review]]> /
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]]> Review6969269906 Sun, 20 Apr 2025 07:13:43 -0700 <![CDATA[Kyle added 'The Stranger']]> /review/show/6969269906 The Stranger by Albert Camus Kyle gave 5 stars to The Stranger (Paperback) by Albert Camus
This book is tragic. Not in the sense that you might be thinking. It doesn’t revolve around the death of a beloved character (well� not exactly) but around the death of a man’s care. Care for anything. What we learn in this book is that the true outcome of the sadness we allow ourselves to fester in is a deep indifference to the world. One so deep that one can’t even attempt to care for something they should. Family, relationships, living, all of it gets swept into this numbing indifference. And it is through this numbing that we become strangers to the world. ]]> Review7502268746 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 17:58:59 -0700 <![CDATA[Kyle added 'Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus']]> /review/show/7502268746 Evangelism by J. Mack Stiles Kyle gave 4 stars to Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus (Building Healthy Churches) by J. Mack Stiles
These Mark 9 books are super helpful. This little number goes over the different kinds of evangelism and the importance of cultivating an evangelistic culture in one’s church. Doing this means that the body of Christ works together for the common goal of evangelism which is less daunting than it being the full responsibility of the individual Christian. This book makes the point that evangelism is collaborative, it involves more than just one person having one conversation, many different Christians could potentially be involved in the salvation on an individual, and they may all have a different role to play in that process, but in the end it’s all for the same cause. The cause of Christ. It’s a good book, definitely worth a read. It definitely got a little repetitive in some parts but still good. ]]>