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Blog business
I wanted to touch base about a change you may have noticed if you’ve subscribed to this blog. Sometime in August, Feedburner, the service that has handled my email subscriptions, ended. I’ve been…
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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 Real Thing At Last”
“I think,” said Mark, “that James touched on the most important point when he said it would have its own legal staff and its own police. . . The real thing is that…
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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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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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Elder Care
Yesterday, I visited my mother at the nursing home. The facility is just over an hour away, and prior to Covid I visited every 2-3 weeks, usually with my daughters. We would enter…
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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…
