What’s in a Phrase?: Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoy Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s writing. I loved her http://ladydusk.blogspot.com/2011/09/book-review-caring-for-words-in-culture.html“>Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies many years ago and ordered this short volume on its heels. This book is easy to lose track…
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque This is another where I can’t rate it. It was objectively well done. The writing style, the conveyance of what the author wanted to convey, the evocative nature of the writing – whether despair or sense of futility or angst – created that fog in…
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997 by Wendell Berry This book has been in my bathroom for years – 5? 10? I don’t know, it has been a while. I would read an occasional poem here and there, but have been making a more concerted effort to do so in 2020. No star rating…
That Hideous Strength: by C.S. Lewis My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read this on Kindle. I really enjoyed this book. There was so much that Lewis had to say and show. The evil was really evil, and the layers were peeled back slowly, slowly to the final climax. The evil is so evil…
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict by Esther de Waal My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read this off and on over the course of nearly a year. There were many thoughtful ideas and passages about living a Christian life intentionally. I thought the structure was intriguing – after the first two, introductory…
Paradise Lost by John Milton My rating: 4 of 5 stars More than a little hubris to “review” Paradise Lost. I am glad I listened to it while I followed along reading it … that kept me going with forward progress and not get bogged down in the details. It would be so easy to…
The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoyed the audiobook. Even “cold” with no background information or knowledge of the story, I was able to follow the main plot and characters pretty well. I wanted to read this with The Literary Life Podcast and knew that we could read…
Beauty in the Word by Stratford Caldecott I cannot give this book any stars. Not because I’m upset to have read it in any way. Not because I don’t think it’s a valuable read for one in my “profession.” But mostly because it was mostly beyond me. Oh, there were parts that I enthusiastically agreed…
You Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal With It by Rachel Jankovic My rating: 4 of 5 stars I liked this well enough. We’re supposed to die to self and live to Christ and Jankovic discusses how the world tries to invert that and lead us away from following the Lord. It didn’t…
Dare I have the temerity to offer a review of a book which struggles with criticism? Some thoughts and implications: An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this to read along with the Literary Life Podcast. They finished ages ago, but I finished today. I really think…