Nonfiction
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Caught Up In a Story
I started Sarah Clarkson’s Caught Up In a Story in 2018, but I ended up setting it aside. Picking it up again recently, I found the time was right. The book reminded me…
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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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The Collective
It is not a question of causing the human being to disappear, but of making him capitulate, of inducing him to accommodate himself to techniques and not to experience personal feelings and reactions.…
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Lewis the Social Prophet
There is a crowd of busybodies. . . whose life is devoted to destroying solitude wherever solitude still exists. They call it “taking the young people out of themselves,” or “waking them up,”…
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The Narnia Code
Recently, I enrolled in the Hillsdale College course on C.S. Lewis. Having breathed Lewis’s interplanetary trilogy (especially That Hideous Strength) almost continuously for the last year, the chance to hear some expert discussion…
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Read-alouds and the moral imagination
I’m reading Live Not By Lies, by Rod Dreher. It’s a discussion of the “soft totalitarianism” spreading in America, and how people in general, and Christians in particular, can be alert to it…
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Being Harmonized
A recent read I’ve neglected to review is this book about China’s surveillance system and its advancement of the totalitarian regime. The book details how the surveillance state has developed in China, how…
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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…
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Reading Highlights
I’m not sure I’ll remember all I’ve read since my last book post, but here are a few highlights at least: Watership Down. What a fantastic (re)read. Who would imagine that a story…