Veterans: thank you. This morning I had the honour of participating in my university’s Remembrance Day ceremony — my choir sang an arrangement of In Flanders Fields and also led the congregation in a few hymns and the national anthems. I’ve participated this way as long as I’ve been in the choir. We get a [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
Those October Books
Which October books? Those ones. Over there. Them what I did got read. The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis. This is a longstanding personal favourite, because it is both splendidly written and extremely useful. The Screwtape Letters is a collection of letters “from a senior to a junior devil”, pertaining largely to matters of [...]
Review: The Book of Lost Things, by John Connolly
I’ve written several different reviews for The Book of Lost Things in my head up to this point — and I’m still not sure how best to capture the flavour of this novel. Or whether I want to recommend it to other people. Or how to process it, still. It seemed like the book kept [...]
(Guest) Review: Faking Grace, by Tamara Leigh
So, I got an email tonight, with a book review attached to it. Here’s the full text: Dear She Reads Books, Ur not posting enuf. We need more reviews. Heres mine i hope u like it n u can use it. I guess that I can’t argue with that. Well, actually this wasn’t an unsolicited [...]