Novels
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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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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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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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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…
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Summer Reading
Most of my reading this summer has consisted of rereading — the lion’s share of it on my Kindle. I may have forgotten something, but here’s what I remember of what I’ve read…
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Hogwarts, Cathedrals, and Antarctica
I’ve polished off several novels lately. Our library’s digital download page — which of course I’ve visited in lieu of going to the (closed) physical library — has been really promoting Harry Potter.…
