The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
I just saw on my Google Analytics report that I had one visit from Medellin Columbia on December 29th. Columbia is the only foreign country I’ve ever visited. This, despite living within 25 miles of Canada half of my life. I went to Bogota in 2002. That city was amazing. Everyone was carrying a gun [...]
Father Joe by Tony Hendra was a sweet and interesting read. I didn’t cry as several of the “jacket commentators” claimed they did, but I did thoroughly enjoy the book. Having inclinationstoward a monkish existence myself I really just enjoyed the narrative about the cloister. I also really enjoyed the commentary about the horror of [...]
I haven’t finished a book in days! I’ve been so busy with the new website and, well, life that I barely have time to read. I’m in the middle of three books right now: Father Joe by Tony Hendra, The Chronicle of the Cid, and Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph and Frances Geis. [...]
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This was my first re-read of the year. I love this book by C.S. Lewis. It is short but very, very rich. The moral knowledge packed into it’s 127 pages is astounding. I read it almost every year for a reminder of how not to let selfishness and pride shape my existence. Highly, highly recommended [...]
All right. I’ve had it. I can’t read this drivel. I quit. I went an entire year finishing every book I started. I read Ulysses, I finished The Brothers Karamazov in five days, I laughed out loud while finishing up The Odyssey, but I cannot subject myself any longer to the fifth Harry Potter book. [...]
I finished this delightful and entertaining book last night and highly recommend it. It is a book club book though, so I can’t share too much. Unfortunately the text included one of my least favorite typos: the misuse of the apostrophe s. Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day is practically a movie already with delightful [...]
I intend to post as I finish books and/or when exciting life events occur. I finished P.G. Wodehouse’s Joy in the Morning last night and, naturally, enjoyed it completely. Jeeves was at his inimitable best and dear Bertram got to pose as a burglar and a policeman. The perilous engagment was deftly avoided and all [...]
…or just how it affected me. Pros: I read a ton of literature. This is sufficient payoff all on it’s own. I will be enjoying the benefits of the reading and the learning for the rest of my life. I always had something interesting to talk about. Jared and I chatted about every single book [...]