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A Year of Reading, Part IX: My Favorite Favorites!
Some books are slam dunk Top Ten, others are like that scruffy and unsought stray dog that follows you home – you keep telling it to go away but it refuses to leave and presently you realize it is a … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Leonard Cohen, Macbeth, Oliver Twist, reading, Shakespeare, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin, Sylvie Simmons
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A Year of Reading, Part VIII: The Favorites!
Books are like relationships. Sometimes you know instantly that this is “the one”. Sometimes you start out cold and yet somehow it grows on you. A book can thrill you or haunt you or hurt you or surprise you or … Continue reading
A Year of Reading, Part V: …and just a bit more fiction
I resolve every year to ground my reading ever so slightly more in reality, yet when it comes time to tally it all up, my list invariably leans toward fiction. Let’s face it: real life is full of real troubles. … Continue reading
A Year of Reading, Part IV: Light-ish Fiction
As they say in the fine print, results may vary. You might adore a book that I loathe. (Don’t get me started on Ulysses…) The joyous thing is that there are so many books – something for everyone! Here are … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Reading, Life
Tagged books, Fiction, Kim Michele Richardson, Life, Lisa See, reading, Tana French, Vita Sackville-West
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A Year of Reading, Part III: Lesser Fiction
Ah, the joys of fiction! It makes for a never-ending parade of Other People’s Lives which, sometimes, at least, makes our own seem normal by comparison. I’ll go in ascending order, meaning that these first eight reads were not the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Don DeLillo, Fiction, Gary Shteyngart, Life, reading, Shuggie Bain, Sinclair Lewis
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A Year of Reading, Part II: Scratching the Surface
When I’m not dealing with the really tough questions in life, like which color of nail polish to choose, or where the heck did that chicken wander off to, I occasionally ponder the little things, like what do I believe? … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Reading, Faith, Life
Tagged books, Christian books, Christianity, Dallas Willard, Faith, G.K. Chesterton, Leo Tolstoy, reading, St. Thomas Aquinas
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A Year of Reading, Part I: In the Word
It’s always a happy moment when I meet my annual Goodreads reading challenge: Whew! I was truly surprised, though, when I went back through all the titles and realized that almost half of the reading I did in 2022 was … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Reading, Faith, Life
Tagged books, Christianity, Dr. Bill Creasy, Faith, Life, Logos Bible Study, reading, The Holy Bible, Timothy Keller
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2021 Reading Re-Cap: Making the Best of an Unreal World
We went from “two weeks to flatten the curve” to two years of hiding behind our doors and masks. Regardless of your pov on that long, strange, trip we can probably all agree that things have felt somewhat…unreal. Reading fiction … Continue reading