“The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called ‘the permanent things’–the norms of human action.”~Russell Kirk
Today, FYI, is Mr. Eliot’s birthday, b.1888.
Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books.
Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re reading or a book you’ve read. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can just write your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.
Now post a link here to the specific post where you’ve written your book review. Don’t link to your main blog page because this kind of link makes it hard to find the book review, especially when people drop in later after you’ve added new content to your blog. In parentheses after your name, add the title of the book you’re reviewing. This addition will help people to find the reviews they’re most interested in reading.
Thanks to everyone for participating.
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Here is the latest book review I wrote. (I was gone to a wedding last Saturday so I couldn’t post it.)
http://magistramater.xanga.com/712217547/a-thread-of-grace/
Good morning, all! I finished a book that I thought was chick lit, that ultimately wasn’t, and a graphic novel that really moved me.
Also, I did another post on Andromeda Klein, Frank Portman’s newest that I linked to last week, about the role of the occult in the book and why I think those concerned about that might want to give it a chance anyway:
http://www.girldetective.net/?p=2621
Cheers and a happy day.
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