The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
I’ve been reading like a madwoman. I wolfed down The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, am four-sevenths of the way through The Chronicles of Narnia, and just finished the first volume of The Book of the New Sun. I am living on coffee and wine and fudge and the very best fantasy ever written. [...]
I’ve been getting ready for Christmas lately. Shopping. Baking. Planning. Inviting. I’ve been working on my Lewis Library project (albeit slowly). And I’ve been reading for the sheer indulgent pleasure of it. First The Lord of the Rings. Next The Chronicles of Narnia. And lastly The Book of the New Sun. I hope I make [...]
Some of you may recall that I tried to fund a Kickstarter project a while back. It was spectacularly unsuccessful, mostly because I was looking for a lot of money without a clear benefit to donors. The plan was to create a very complete database of the books C.S. Lewis had owned and read with [...]
I am assembling a reading list for 2012. If you had to choose one Neil Gaiman book to read, which would it be? So far my choices are American Gods, The Sandman Series, or Neverwhere. Thoughts?
I’ve been kind of busy lately. Between grading essays for my substitute teaching job, cooking and traveling for Thanksgiving, and reading good books, I haven’t had much time for blogging. The good news is I am approaching 50 books for the year. I haven’t had an impressive reading year since 2008′s 200 books but dropping [...]
I just finished re-reading Ralph Moody’s account of life in Boston with his widowed mother and five siblings. Mary Emma and Company isn’t the best of Moody’s books, but it is a charming read. I have fond memories of my mother reading all his books aloud to us on long winter afternoons.
My sister is coming in to town this weekend. I am so very excited to see her! I started telling my therapist that I was looking forward to it and burst in to tears. Yes. My therapist. I have one now. And a prescription for Zoloft. You may recall that I posted about being depressed a [...]
I’m rereading Jane Eyre for something like the 57th time. Thoroughly enjoying myself too. I love the experience of repeatedly reading books I love. Each time through I find so many new things in familiar territory. The story never changes, but I do and it is a fresh and rich experience always. I never noticed [...]
In no particular order: The Odyssey – Homer The City of God – St Augustine Paradise Lost – John Milton The Complete Works – William Shakespeare The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler The Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius Summa Theologica – St Thomas Aquinas Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy The Lord of the [...]
In no particular order: Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy The Life of Samuel Johnson – James Boswell The Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius The City of God – St. Augustine Man’s Unconquerable Mind – Gilbert Highet Le [...]