One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
This may come as a surprise to some (or all) of you but I have decided to shelve work on my book, at least for now. My reasons are many but chiefly I am stopping because I don’t feel like the idea of the book has developed into anything worth finishing. I have struggled with [...]
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 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 [...]
I promise I didn’t drop off the face of the earth. I do have a nasty cold which has involved days of aches and pains, sore throat and hacking up phlegm (..TMI…I know…). But I have also been busily writing. I have a good outline except for the last few chapters of the book, Chapter [...]
This is the last of Geises books that I plan to read this year. I’ve really enjoyed their trilogy about medieval life and am looking forward to doing more reading from and about the Middle Ages.
I’m so glad to live in our day and age though I think that there were definitely some good aspects [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 is [...]
Don’t you just hate it when all your inspiration comes after you’re in bed ready to fall asleep? Yeah, me too. I was up writing until midnight. I know that is not late to you young things; I too used to be up until 2, 3 or 5 for homework, for “hanging out” or just [...]
Crime and Punishment Page: 300
I’m a little worried about my teenage self. Why did I enjoy the Russian authors so very much? It’s not that I don’t think Crime and Punishment is a good book or worthy of it’s classic status, it’s just so very sad and depressing. Definitely an interesting book, as fascinating for [...]