One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
From Chapter One of my book:
Anyone who thinks that discipline has no place in our pleasures and our leisure has no experience of its true operation. Undisciplined pleasure quickly becomes nothing of pleasure while retaining all of its undisciplined character. Unending sweets first please, then pall and finally sicken. Long vacations are initially relaxing, then [...]
I read CS Lewis’s Space Trilogy in reverse order this year. That Hideous Strength has long been my favorite and I usually turn to it first when I’m in the mood for a solid, enjoyable, and strengthening reading experience. Then, once I’ve enjoyed it, I often go back and reread the first two books of [...]
I recently read PG Wodehouse’s The Clicking of Cuthbert which was great fun. Of course anything by Wodehouse cheers the soul and I really needed cheering this last week.
Jared was out of town for seven days and six nights. It was awful. That’s the longest we’ve ever been apart and aside from missing his help [...]
I know that I continue to be inordinately absent from this blog and I promise that it is not because I don’t love my readers or that I no longer value my blogging experience.
Remember that I am trying to write a book.
Also to help plan and prepare a wedding.
And I’ve got a part-time job going [...]