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Sep 18, 2025: Grimmness - Hitchcock vs. Wertham
Sep 7, 2025: vacancies, absences “As far as I’m concerned, all the literatures of the fantastic are related — perhaps in a parodic, perhaps in a dancing-dervish fashion — to the …
Aug 3, 2025: Finished 2025: Pea, Bee, & Jay #1: Stuck Together by Brian 📚 I don’t know why I can’t accept anything about this book. I can accept all sorts of weird …
Aug 3, 2025: Finished 2025: The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures by Sylvia Shaw Judson 📚 One never finishes this book.
Aug 3, 2025: Finished 2025: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 📚 Another re-read.
Jul 31, 2025: Finished 2025: Lady into Fox (Dover Literature: Science Fiction/Fantas… by David Garnett 📚 I’m grateful that this gem was called to my attention. …
Jul 31, 2025: Finished 2025: Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth by Robert Louis Stevenson 📚 Re-read. Always a joy to re-read.
Jul 27, 2025: Sørina Higgins is starting a podcast! She has no idea who I am, but I have been a reader of her Charles Williams blog for over a decade now. I listen …
Jul 26, 2025: Confirmed: Kierkegaard was a smoker.
Jul 21, 2025: When 'academic' is another word for 'detective' I have greatly enjoyed the following works of sifting historical evidence carefully and constructing an argument based on doing so. From most …
Jul 21, 2025: Finished 2025: Shared Life by Donald Macleod 📚 Good enough for what it is (a slim introduction to the topic for beginners), I guess.
Jul 18, 2025: read fewer books but read them with greater care There are many valid reasons to read, but if you’re about self-improvement in one way or another — …
Jul 18, 2025: Finished 2025: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 📚 My first Morrison (and Morrison’s first novel), past due. The writing is lovely. Characters are …
Jul 7, 2025: The Maverick Animator of Chaos About Shinya Ohira.
Jul 7, 2025: Kayaking Manhattan Journalist Eliot Stein takes us along on the unique adventure of kayaking the perimeter of Manhattan Island and observes some of …
Jul 1, 2025: Note to myself. Read this: ANTIQUA ET NOVA
Jun 27, 2025: Le Cyclope (c. 1914) by Odilon Redon
Jun 27, 2025: Demons and ChatGPT The Christian must practice spiritual watchfulness and custody of the eyes. In our time, this means treating AI not as a source of …
Jun 19, 2025: Finished 2025: Under the Dome by Stephen King 📚 So many things wrong with this stupid book… but it was also a surprisingly compelling page-turner. It …
Jun 16, 2025: Katherine Dee: Let’s Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis The Internet as the Astral Plane. The Internet as Fairyland
Jun 14, 2025: Solaris Finished 2025: Solaris by Stanisław Lem 📚 It has been close to 20 years since I’ve seen the Tarkovsky or Soderbergh film adaptations. I figured that …
Jun 11, 2025: The Kemble Pipe He was 80 years old, and he had to walk 120 miles back to jail, where he was tried and convicted for being a Catholic priest and for saying Mass. His …
Jun 11, 2025: Dave Sim is one of my heroes.
Jun 11, 2025: One of the blessings of the internet is gaining access to conference talks that I would have never had access to otherwise. In the next couple of …
Jun 9, 2025: Finished 2025: Mr. Distinctive by Olga Tokarczuk 📚 The story on its own is slight and maybe even a little stupid. The story accompanied by the …
Jun 1, 2025: Finished 2025: Anji Kills a King by Evan Leikam 📚 Saw this on the new shelf and was intrigued. It’s not bad… but it’s not good. Characters working …
Jun 1, 2025: Finished 2025: Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King 📚 The short chapters narrating the monthly ‘cycle’ (full moon) of a werewolf are quite effective. …
May 26, 2025: Finished 2025: Faith of the Founders: Religion and the New Nation, 177… by Edwin S. Gaustad 📚 Stop me if you’ve heard this one before– a bunch of …
May 25, 2025: Finished 2025: The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han 📚 An “excess of positivity” strikes me as exactly right. I loved the ‘Bartleby’ reading. I didnt …
May 23, 2025: Finished 2025: Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now by Patrick McGrath 📚 Lovely, complex writing. I’m happy to have stumbled onto this book and …
May 23, 2025: The Bicycle Race (1912) by Lyonel Feininger
May 23, 2025: Finished 2025: The Long Walk by Stephen King 📚 Angsty YA novel form SK. It landed flat as a level road for me, very few dazzling heights and …
May 18, 2025: musical localism Another possible answer to “Why is music important?” is the one Peter Leithart has been making for several years now: worship, and especially musical …
May 15, 2025: When a customer orders a bowl of dumpling ramen at a kiosk, a robot activates. A steel nozzle swirls boiling water and spicy broth paste into a pot. …
May 14, 2025: Close reading is simply “a technique of reading that makes an account of the reading process the basis for interpretation.” It entails nothing more …
May 14, 2025: Finished 2025: Being Consumed by William T. Cavanaugh 📚 Really excellent. This focus on Eucharistic economics could change the Church (and by …
May 13, 2025: The History teacher’s task in the “Information Age” has been made distressing when television and the Internet are the most active sources of our …
May 11, 2025: In article 34 on baptism, de Brès wrote of how it profits us not just once, but through our whole life. The original Belgic Confession added, …
May 9, 2025: If thou wilt know and learn anything with profit, love to be thyself unknown and to be counted for nothing. Rest from inordinate desire of knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit. Those who have knowledge desire to appear learned, and to …
Apr 24, 2025: I’m not the only one who wants to get back to a website.
Apr 23, 2025: Finished 2025: Pet Sematary by Stephen King 📚 Disappointing. I never felt an emotional connection to any of these characters. Part 1 is a drag. Part 2 …
Apr 14, 2025: Finished 2025: The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel by Larry McMurtry 📚 It’s entertaining in parts and a quick read, but it leaves an empty feeling, …
Apr 10, 2025: Ted Gioia channels Wendell Berry: 9 Rules for New Technology Paul Kingsnorth discovers Frederick Buechner’s Godric: Prose and Principalities
Apr 10, 2025: Travellers on Horseback Approaching a Village with a Spire In a letter to a friend in the 1760s Gainsborough wrote: “I’m sick of Portraits and wish very much to take my Viol da Gamba and walk off to some sweet …
Apr 9, 2025: JBJ argues against tariffs in 1998. Do we as Christians believe in “nationalism”? No, we don’t. We believe in the international, catholic, universal …
Apr 9, 2025: I love this. I am in favor of local business, physical media, and a caring community that knows and loves one another.
Apr 8, 2025: Finished 2025: Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger 📚 A lovely piece of writing. Nathalie Léger achieves a beautiful meditation on Wanda and on …
Apr 7, 2025: Finished 2025: Cassi and the House of Memories: A Graphic Novel by Dean Stuart 📚 Not sure about the whole changing memories aspect, but the core story …
Apr 5, 2025: Currently reading: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 📚
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