“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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First finished book of 2019
Today, sitting beside my father’s hospital bed, I finished I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel. This was a Christmas gift — one of three books for book lovers, I received (Book Girl and On Reading Well were the other two in this trinity.) I’ve been […]
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Books I’ve Finally Finished in April (and One in March)
First the one book I finished in March. It was a crazy busy month, and I really need to say “NO!” to more things. But that’s a different blog post. So what one book did I manage to finish in March? Mere Motherhood: Morning Times, Nursery Rhymes, & My Journey Towards Sanctification by Cindy Rollins — a […]
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Books I’ve Finally Finished in February
This post may contain affiliated links. I’m back with books I’ve finally finished in February! This may be a thing! (I also survived February, which is almost a miracle. February is a jerk.) This first book I finished was Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry. This was actually a reread, and I was reading along with […]
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Books I’ve Finally Finished in January
This post may contain affiliated links. This is a test run of a new method to record/review the books I’ve read. It’s titled “Finally Finished” because I have a bad habit of setting down a book and not picking it up for months. The current plan is to give a line or two of my […]
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Rabbits with swords, y’all!
*This post contains affiliated links. We just finished the best new children’s book I’ve read in … a long while. The Green Ember by S.D. Smith is a book that certainly every parent should read to their child, and frankly adults should read for themselves. Before I go on: Yes, it is a children’s book. […]
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June reads
Although I’m not very consistent with it, I find it helpful to blog my books because it helps me think more clearly about them. It’s the adult version of narration, if you will. I was going to do a full post on a couple of these books, but the best-laid plans of mice and all […]
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The next adventure is here!
This post contains affiliated links. Well, not “here” here, because I forgot to order it early. But we’ll have it by Monday. What is it? The latest from Nathan Hale: Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: The Underground Abductor. I’ve previously written about these great books and my re-evaluation of the place of graphic novels. (Also, I […]
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War stories and adventure tales
*This post contains affiliated links I just finished reading The Aeneid with my daughters. Previously, we read (well, listened to) The Iliad and The Odyssey. These three epics are arguably three pillars of all Western Literature. (A fourth being the Bible.) Of the three, I had only read The Iliad previously, although I was […]
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Striving for rest
*This post contains affiliated links. This year, I have been wanting to have a more restful, peaceful year and paradoxically (or not uncoincidentally, depending on your point of view) have been having the most stressful year that I’ve had in a long time. Part of it is just the way the ball has bounced this […]
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Empty Shelf Book: Choosing the right medium
This post contains affiliated links. Title: The Iliad Author: Homer*, translation Richard Lattimore, narrator Charlton Griffin What it’s about: “The anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus and its devastation.” If you don’t know the story of the Iliad, there are spoilers ahead. The Iliad is about a few days toward the very end of the Trojan […]
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