Off The Shelf

How Not To Survive In The Woods

Welcome to Off The Shelf, a publication of The Square Inch. It’s about everything books. If you love the old smell of an ancient treasure you found in a library book sale or if you just love turning fine pages—maybe you even dog-ear them like a monster—this place is for you.

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Dear Friends,

Each week I plan to fairly randomly pull a book off my shelf and tell you about it. These will not necessarily be “book reviews,” but I suppose some posts will become something like that. What I have in mind is to simply tell you what I think about it: why I have it, how I’ve found it useful, a few choice quotations, and that sort of thing.

This will range across all genres. Sometimes you’ll get a full-fledged theological treatise, other times a great read for the beach. I suspect that you will not be rushing out to buy my recommendations every single week, and that’s precisely why I want to share with you something about each book. Even if you don’t read it, I will tell you something useful about it and increase your knowledge.

Without further adieu … I don’t think you would have predicted this week’s selection in a million years.