Fiction
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Revisiting Old Friends
I’ve been immersed in Elizabeth Goudge for months now, and I wanted to pause and reflect a bit… First, why have I been reading (and rereading) her books? And second, what attracts and…
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The First Men in the Moon
I read H.G. Wells’s First Men in the Moon while creating a course on C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet, the first book in Lewis’s Ransom trilogy. Lewis was a fan of…
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Leaf by Niggle
I struggle to find the time to write about my reading these days. I’ve been rereading, as always (Safely Home, Love Thy Body), and reading (The Mabinogian, Le Morte d’Arthur, The Inklings and…
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Book Report: Better late than never
I’ve let a number of reads slip through my fingers without recording my impressions here. The one who suffers from that? Me. I often revisit book posts here to refresh my memory of…
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Be not conformed
Yesterday, I revisited my favorite discussion of Lewis’s space trilogy, David Downing’s Planets in Peril. A book-length critical study, it draws together numerous perspectives on the novels, includes a lengthy bibliography, and gives…
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Book Review: How It Went
As I read Wendell Berry’s latest collection of short stories How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership, I thought often of a passage from his Memory of Old Jack.…
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Recent (and not so recent) reads
Current and Completed My family is reading this book together now. It’s about how to recover after the Covid years, and it’s prompting some great discussions. For me personally, it’s been a blast…
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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel probing our ambivalent relationship with artificial intelligence reminded me of something a favorite college professor once said about Emily Dickinson’s poems: she places her subjects under a microscope and examines…
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The Bronze Ring
This morning, before anyone else was up, my Kindle Fire went berserk. I was checking news headlines when suddenly an audio clip began playing. I tried to turn down the volume, then turn…
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Recent Reading: 6 Books
It’s tough to recall what all I’ve read since April, when I last posted on books. I’ll begin with Hollowed Out: A Warning about America’s Next Generation, by Jeremy S. Adams. Written by…