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Some things you just don’t expect
By
awelborn
So, I picked up Richard Sipe’s new book, The Serpent and The Dove: Celibacy in LIterature and Life (October ’07 – and $49.95, just so you know…) from the “new arrivals” section at the library. I thought I would be getting a survey of what the title indicates, informed by Sipe’s deep experience in the…
Bookblogging
By
awelborn
Ah, some bookblogging at last. I probably should reach back a few months and mention the book I keep forgetting – The Road by Cormac McCarthy. When The Road was first published, I got the impression from the reviews I skimmed that the thematic focus of the book was a possible messiah-child trekking through an…
When your children grievously disappoint you
By
awelborn
Son #1: Hey, Mom, you know that Love in the Ruins book you gave me? Me: Yeah? Son #1: I read it. Me. (Hopefully) And? Son #1: It was stupid. I didn’t like it at all. Me: (Deflated) Oh. Son #1: But I’m reading The Canterbury Tales now. It’s really good. (In my own defense:…
How to Be Good
By
awelborn
Couple of quick grown-up fiction notes: Last week, I read Nick Hornby’s How to Be Good, a book I’d meant to read when it first came out. It’s a comic (of course) novel about Katie Carr, a female physician, married with two children, in a miserable marriage to a newspaper columnist whose stock in trade is…
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