Carmon on the historical novels of G.A. Henty. I mentioned Henty here a couple of weeks ago, and someone asked some questions to which I didn’t really have answers. Carmon has the scoop.
Kathryn Judson discusses Pooh and the Philosophers by John Tyerman Wiliams (with Ernest Shepard illustrations, of course). I like the idea of this book: “In Which It Is Shown That All of Western Philosophy Is Merely a Preamble to Winnie-the-Pooh.”
Vera Ivanova and Anthony Esolen (Mere Comments) on the (Christian) orthodoxy of Charles Dickens. Did I ever tell you that I really like Dickens?
iMonk names names—of the authors that he’s read and enjoyed. And he dares anyone to evaluate the state or the content of his faith by the eclectic nature of his reading material.
Stefanie at So Many Books wrote a post about all the books she’s reading at one time.
Dancer Daughter rather sheepishly confessed to me today that she’s reading eight, yes e-i-g-h-t, books right now. She says she just can’t limit herself to one book at a time. Should I take her in for bibliotherapy? She’s reading Vanity Fair, Great Expectations, Alice in Wonderland, Jane Eyre, Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, and three books by Madeleine L’Engle: The Irrational Season, Certain Women, and The Small Rain.
I’m only reading two books right now. How many books do you have going at once? Can anyone beat Dancer Daughter’s eight?
Well. . .I have nine going right now, but that is counting assigned books (for school), the one I’m reading aloud, and the one I’m listening to.
I have three going. Two in the car for when I am waiting during school pick-ups (there’s a parking problem at my daughter’s school so I have to go early to get a spot), and one on my bedside:
– Byzantium (Stephen Lawhead)
– Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God (Mary E. DeMuth, who blogs from Southern France, http://relevantblog.blogspot.com/)
– The Piano Shop on the Left Bank (Thad Carhart, takes place in Paris)