The Glass Palace by Amitav GhoshAn old-fashioned, multi-generational novel, it tells a story, as E.M. Forster tiredly remarked. Oh yes, it tells a story.The story is set in Burma, around the time the British ruthlessly conquered it, sending the Royal … [Continue reading]
"SIN BOLDLY" –MARTIN LUTHER
"SIN BOLDLY" --MARTIN LUTHERThe fascinating, complex German reformer Martin Luther was many things. One of them was quotable! Luther's views were condemned as heretical by Pope Leo X in the bull Exsurge Domine in 1520. He was, consequently, summoned … [Continue reading]
Jake and Us
Roy, I & Jake just went for a lovely moonlight 9 p.m. run down our dirt country lane--access only, no cars. He says I am just like Jake the Collie, in that I love to curl up all day, and pretend I like runs. I said HE was like Jake the Collie, … [Continue reading]
BOOK GIVEAWAY: Simon Acland’s “The Waste Land: An Entertainment”
BOOK GIVEAWAY: Simon Acland's "The Waste Land: An Entertainment"Simon Acland has very kindly offered readers of this blog a copy of his intriguing new novel. If you would like to be included in the drawing, do leave your name in the comments section, … [Continue reading]
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Captain Corelli's MandolinIt's so much easier and quicker to watch the movie than read the book I land up watching the film version of many books I have wanted to read. I enjoyed Captain Corelli's Mandolin, the movie. I knew nothing of the German … [Continue reading]
Theophanies: St John at Patmos, A Sermon at St. Aldate’s
St John at Patmos, John's vision of Patmos (a vision rather than a theophany, incidentally!) Among the lampstands was someone "like a son of man," dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.14His head … [Continue reading]
“The Precious Garden of my Home needs Tending”
"The Precious Garden of my Home needs Tending"I have reluctantly decided to no longer blog daily-- for a season. In the words of the uncompromising John Piper, in whose church we worshipped when we lived in Minneapolis "the precious garden of my home … [Continue reading]
Sara Suleri. Meatless Days. An engaging post-colonial memoir
SARA SULERI, MEATLESS DAYS:An engaging post-colonial memoirI have read this memoir twice, and really enjoyed it. Sara grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, the daughter of a gentle Welshwoman, and an irascible Pakistani father (who had left his first … [Continue reading]
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