Sunday Salon: Books Read in May, 2013

Reading, but not finished:
The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer. I’m reading along with Cindy’s group read, but I got stuck on the chapter about Interior Decoration. I didn’t want to read it because my house is headed for an episode of Hoarders, and I don’t know what to do about it. Maybe I’ll just read “Interior Decoration”, wince, and get on with the rest of the book.
Chapter 2, What Is Hidden Art?
Chapter 3, Music.
Chapter 4, Painting, Sketching, Sculpturing

Lewis Agonistes by Louis Markos. Subtitled: How C.S. Lewis Can Train Us to Wrestle With the Modern and Postmodern World. I’m slowly making my way through this seris of essays on what C.S Lewis has to say to those of us who come after him and live in a philosophical and cultural world he might have predicted, but didn’t address directly because when Lewis lived “post-modern” and “new age” were concepts barely on the horizon. Nevertheless, Lewis has much to say about these and other “–isms” of the twenty-first century.

Children’s and Young Adult Fiction:
Beholding Bee by Kimberly Newton Fusco.
Love, Chickens, and a Taste of Peculiar Cake by Joyce Magnin. Nominated for the INSPY Awards.

Adult Fiction:
The Last Plea Bargain by Randy Singer.

Nonfiction:
Letters from a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with his Father’s Questions about Christianity by Dr. Gregory A. Boyd and Edward K. Boyd.
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely COnvert by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield.
Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton by Joseph Pearce.

2 thoughts on “Sunday Salon: Books Read in May, 2013

  1. I loved the fact you got hung up on the Interior Decoration chapter and why! That is so funny (and honest!). I think there were many times her house looked less than perfect with all the people coming and going.

    The year we were married, our senior pastor was at L’Abri and they had him cleaning toilets (I think they have the PhD’s do the grimiest work on purpose, hehehe). Everyone who stayed there had to help in the cleaning, cooking, gardening, etc. So she had HELP! 😉

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