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Reading for Believers: April 2015
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015. The Time Traveler's Wife. This year, I'm making a serious effort to get through my monstrous "TBR pile." Whenever I finish another book from it, I ask a reader from my main blog, a Twitter follower, or a Facebook friend to be an "accountability buddy" of sorts by choosing which book from the pile I should read next. And the latest of them has been Pentimento, who suggested The Time Traveler's Wife. And the rest of the romance unfolds like The Gift of the Magi. That is, that Mary ...
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Reading for Believers: Not Svengali and Trilby
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014. Not Svengali and Trilby. 8221; Not that jam and babies aren’t good things, mark you, but Aristotle never wrote “The Nichomachean Make-and-Do.”. Anyway, this is just a preamble for “this post won’t be very learned or deep.”. The age disparity impinges on the narrative not a whit, except that it allows some de haut en bas. There must be a whole branch of social science devoted to investigating this question.). Lord of the World. January 15, 2014 10:57 PM. I hadnt noticed the ag...
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Reading for Believers: A recommendation
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Thursday, March 6, 2014. I think some of you are still reading Lord of the World. But I have a recommendation if anyone is looking for something new to read: anything by Willa Cather. I've been reading The Professor's House. Not theologically sound, but an interesting argument. Later, the professor is lectured by his wife's dressmaker about how it was Mary who composed the Magnificat,. An idea and an encounter which makes him cheerful as he climbs up to his old study. Hi, Emily, sorry to have left this c...
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Reading for Believers: The Time Traveler's Wife
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015. The Time Traveler's Wife. This year, I'm making a serious effort to get through my monstrous "TBR pile." Whenever I finish another book from it, I ask a reader from my main blog, a Twitter follower, or a Facebook friend to be an "accountability buddy" of sorts by choosing which book from the pile I should read next. And the latest of them has been Pentimento, who suggested The Time Traveler's Wife. And the rest of the romance unfolds like The Gift of the Magi. That is, that Mary ...
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Reading for Believers: The Death of the World
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Saturday, January 25, 2014. The Death of the World. Probably my biggest reading challenge of the year was starting and not stopping Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World. I almost gave up at many different points, telling myself that it was just not "the right book at the right time" for me, but somehow I powered on . . . After a long while, I got to the last page and learned that several bad beginnings are nothing next to one good, strong ending. Is a story of many endings and also a meditation on death.
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Reading for Believers: March 2013
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Thursday, March 21, 2013. Putting Anna Down . . . Was hard to do. I finally finished Anna Karenina. Eventually I did get drawn into the story. I have some notes up here. Sad that the moral lesson isn't always so obvious; some adulterous liaisons seem to be happier and healthier than the original marriages. Watched the movie, too, but wasn't sold on the scene changing device, and Levin's story gets slighted, I think. I would not have picked that Aaron guy for Vronsky - hard to take him seriously. Shakespe...
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Shredded Cheddar
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Sense Verse Smackdown, Musical Intermission. According to Parkinson's Law, work expands to fill the time available for it. According to Enbrethiliel's Law, blogging work expands whether you and time like it or not. And editing other people's verse is very. Expansive work. So while I give myself another week to put the "Funny Four" together, here is another face-off to tide you over. If you were around for the "Weird Al" Yankovic Song Smackdown. If you'd like to claim June Giveaway. Sorry Im not voting to...
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Shredded Cheddar
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Nonsense and Some Sense Verse Smackdown, Round 3A. And the Musical Intermission. Musical face-offs always do well, so I'm a little surprised that last week's intermission attracted a grand total of three. Votes Then again, why be greedy for more when enough is plenty? And we certainly had enough: just when I was about to call a tie between Noel Coward (Brandon's choice) and Cole Porter (Christopher's choice), Mrs. Darwin slipped in and called it for Cole. =). Lewis Carroll . . . From his shoulder Hiawatha.
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Shredded Cheddar
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Sense Verse Smackdown, Round 3B. Thanks to a combination of sloppy planning and absolutely no sense of time (which may be the exact same thing), I've had to extend the giveaway for another two weeks. (Ha! I'll bet you thought I was going to say that I had to backdate the post two days! But yeah, that, too.) Remember that the announcement of the giveaway winner is traditionally made with the announcement of the smackdown champion! And even if you don't the last two W&Q 29. Hilaire Belloc . . . Till they b...
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Reading for Believers: May 2012
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Saturday, May 26, 2012. Since it's Sunday evening and the teenager is cooking, and since our current read is Wolf Hall, I thought I'd take a moment to mention this article, mentioned earlier in the month by Rod Dreher. You may already have seen it (it's garnered seven hundred-odd comments on the Guardian site) but it's jolly good. Http:/ www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/may/16/catholic-church-respectable-hilary-mantel. Monday, May 7, 2012. In which I read Middlemarch. I saw a piece of brocade...
