Biography
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The Joy of the Snow
Elizabeth Goudge’s autobiography leaves me with mixed feelings. In the first half, I was enthusiastic. She is witty and self-deprecating, and I felt that my expectation that I would like this writer personally…
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84, Charing Cross Road
I read 84, Charing Cross Road in one evening. And though its call number makes it plain that it’s a nonfictional work, somehow I forgot this as I was reading. An epistolary novel…
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Nurturing the imagination
Seeing Past Z: Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World is a memoir. It offers Beth Kephart’s experience as a mother cultivating in her child a love of reading, reflection, and imaginative vitality.…
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder
I read Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend for the first time in the fall of 2007. My daughters and I had been exploring the earlier Little House books for…
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A Circle of Quiet
A Circle of Quiet is one of Madeleine L’Engle’s Crosswicks Journals. It’s the third one I’ve read; the others are Two-Part Invention and The Irrational Season. I found this one to be an…
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The Irrational Season
I picked up The Irrational Season on a whim off the library shelf, and it’s been a wonderful read for me. In fact, I’m going to have to purchase a copy so that…
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Art Lesson
I’m really enjoying Madeleine L’Engle’s The Irrational Season, and trying not to read it too quickly. Today I read her commentary on some works of art. L’Engle writes, “Christian graphic art has often…
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The Story Behind Modern Books
Ever wondered how some loved story took shape in its author’s mind? I read Jeane’s review of this book over at Dog Ear Diary, and it sounded really interesting. I picked up a…
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Washington: The Indispensable Man
This isn’t how I’m accustomed to visualizing George Washington. Charles Willson Peale’s 1772 painting captures him young and gallant, with a twinkle in his eye, in his French and Indian War uniform. But…