The Discerning Reader is Back!

(Well . . . sorta.)

Many of you who read this will remember a site called “The Discerning Reader”. In its original format, it was a great, competitively-priced store for good (ie: not the usual crap) Christian books and music. It was shut down a little over a year ago, the domain name was put up for sale, and it lay idle for over a year.

Well, Tim Challies announced today that he has bought the discerningreader.com domain and is re-purposing the site as a repository for book reviews, previews, and recommendations, in order to make us more . . . well, discerning readers.

From the announcement:

As you may know, one of my passions is reading. I absolutely love to read and to help others find books that are worth reading. With tens of thousands of Christians books hitting the shelves every year, it is becoming increasingly difficult to sort the good from the bad and the better from the best. This is where Discerning Reader comes in. It is a site that features reviews written by discerning readers. There are currently several hundred reviews available with many others to be added in the near future. There are author biographies as well as a whole list of new (or upcoming features).

So, I’m really excited for this. It’s a great-looking site, as we can expect from Tim, and the reviews are top-notch. Add Discerning Reader 2.0 to your bookmarks, and visit often.