Archive: Books category
Today certainly seems to be a day for posting, doesn't it. I just got back from watching the new Pride & Prejudice, and I absolutely loved it. Very well done. The performances were excellent, especially Keira Knightley's. And Mr. Darcy's speech at the end -- "You've ...
The Kevin J. Anderson / Rebecca Moesta reading was pretty good. They talked about their writing (Kevin's published 89 novels!) and Kevin read the first chapter of his upcoming book Slanhunter. We were the first people to hear it or see it -- not even his wife (Rebecca) ...
After writing that last post, I searched for Chaucer on the LDS.org archives and found an article by Arthur Henry King entitled Literature and Testimony. He says, "I think that with all his so-called liberality Chaucer is nevertheless a great religious poet." Lately I've been reading ...
So in my History of the English Language class this morning we read some Middle English texts (well, two pages' worth) and it was tremendously fun, especially now that I've studied Old English. The last text we looked at was the first few paragraphs of the Canterbury Tales, and ...
Remember that book I mentioned a week or two ago when talking about audiobooks, Steve Leveen's The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life? Well, shortly thereafter I ordered it through ILL (interlibrary loan). It arrived today and when I got home from school I picked it up, intending ...
While walking through the Wilkinson Center today on my way to print up some stuff, I caught sight of tables and tables of books in the Garden Court. My wallet is thin as it is, but I couldn't help myself. And I'm glad I did: for $12, I ...
Last night I was talking with some friends about C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and G.K. Chesterton, and on my walk home I realized that books are really good friends. No matter what happens as far as my dating life goes (to use a rather specific example), books will always ...
If you go to ChristianAudio.com and click on the big orange button labeled "Free Download," you can get a nice audiobook of G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. (It's five MP3s of about 35 megs each.)
[tags]audiobooks, G.K. Chesterton[/tags]
Lately I've started marking books again, and I'm finding that it's very useful for remembering good parts that I want to quote in this blog. :) Beyond that, it makes me read more actively -- rather than just skimming over the surface, I have to grapple with the text, ...
I've been reading the "Finding Ourselves in Our Tradition" chapter in Arthur Henry King's Arm the Children, and these two paragraphs really struck me:
History happens forward, but we are allowed to go back. We live forward, but we are allowed to return in our minds. And the further ...
