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« Reply #660 on: May 23, 2011, 06:05:PM » |
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I've been discovering some of LM Montgomery's not-Anne-of-Green-Gables writing -- The Blue Castle and the shorter stories, to be exact. They are AMAZING. I think I like The Blue Castle even better than the Anne series, which is saying something!
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« Reply #661 on: May 23, 2011, 08:59:PM » |
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Lol every time I see the title "Anne of Green Gables" I am somehow reminded of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House of the Seven Gables" which I find particularly amusing as the two are drastically different tales...
Hehe.
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It is my solemn and firmly held belief that the Cristeros were an entirely unjustified group of egomaniacal sociopaths and that Mexico would be a far better place today had they simply purchased Xbox360 consoles and lived out their ridiculous fantasies via an imaginary fantasy gaming realm Forget your lust for the rich man's gold/ All that you need, is in your soul/ And you can do this, oh baby, if you try/ All that I want for you my son/ Is to be satisfied All that we are is a picture in a mirror, with fancy shoes to grace our feet. All that there is, is a slow road to freedom; Heaven above and the devil beneath. We're all in this thing together, walking a line between faith and fear, this life won't last forever - when you cry I taste the salt in your tears. |
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« Reply #662 on: May 24, 2011, 12:19:PM » |
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I loved Emily of New Moon when I was eleven or so. Magic for Marigold is good, too.  |
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« Reply #663 on: May 24, 2011, 05:07:PM » |
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Yeats again, can't stop - oh, and some dollar novel about dollhouse murders.
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"If I prayed God that all people should approve of my conduct, I should find myself a penitent at the door of each one, but I shall rather pray that my heart may be pure toward all."
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« Reply #664 on: May 24, 2011, 07:21:PM » |
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Yeats again, can't stop - oh, and some dollar novel about dollhouse murders.
I loved the Dollhouse Murders back in the day. I'm reading An Open Letter to Confused Catholics. |
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« Reply #665 on: May 24, 2011, 09:40:PM » |
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Currently re-reading A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick, which is incidentally one of my all-time favourite novels.
Me too. Kind of strange because I thought all the hippie jargon would get old. There is a certain dating to it, and 1994 was a little different than the book, but I think the story carries especially when you know that it was semi-biographical. I am reading right now: - Vaccine Safety Manual for Concerned Families and Health Practitioners, 2nd Edition: Guide to Immunization Risks and Protection - by Neil Z. Miller - The Mass Of The Roman Rite : Its Origins and Development by Joseph A. Jungmann No fiction at the moment. |
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And whosoever diggeth a pit, Lord,
Shall fall in it, shall fall in it.
Whosoever diggeth a pit shall bury in it,
Shall bury in it.
If you are the big tree,
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down,
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« Reply #666 on: May 25, 2011, 07:22:AM » |
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Yeats again, can't stop - oh, and some dollar novel about dollhouse murders.
I loved the Dollhouse Murders back in the day. I'm reading An Open Letter to Confused Catholics. I know those, but this is not that. It's about a writer who makes dioramas of the murders in her books - I'm not far along, but I think that something terrible is bound to happen!! :o Still plowing through Yeats, but in no particular order. He's becoming a bit samey-samey...enough with birds. |
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"If I prayed God that all people should approve of my conduct, I should find myself a penitent at the door of each one, but I shall rather pray that my heart may be pure toward all."
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« Reply #667 on: May 25, 2011, 07:25:AM » |
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Read a little bit of "The Screwtape Letters" in the library before work today. It looks great, can't wait till semester break so I can read the whole thing.
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Remember Dear Christian, you have but one soul to save, One God to love and serve, One eternity to expect. Death will come soon, judgement will follow, and then, Heaven or Hell forever.
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« Reply #668 on: May 25, 2011, 07:45:PM » |
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The Queens Governess... my obsession with all things Tudor continues........ if anyone has any good suggestions fiction or nonfiction, please pass them along!
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« Reply #669 on: May 26, 2011, 08:41:AM » |
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dear catholic school mom,
in response to you request for suggestions on Tudor stuff i hope you find this helpful.
On fiction front the big shot around these parts is CJ Sansom, Sovereign, Dissolution, Heartstone etc.
Sansom is a very competent historian and in these novels he really makes tudor history not just come alive but you can taste it, - you can particularly smell the fear, its an extraordinary gift he has, they terrify you in a way i find just unique. The little disabled detective he invents - shardlake- is put into more or less into real event - i read Sovereign and he goes to ivestigate the Pilgrimmage of Grace ( a real and terrible uprising that took place in the north as a violent reaction to HVIII " reforms" ) - there's a brilliant scence where he meets the king all massive 6' 6" of him as he towers over the little lawyer threatening and mocking him - the fear and terror he generates around the thousands around him who watch in silence is unbelievable.He stumbles on a secret about the king which i wont spoil if you get it.
My beef with Sansom is that like the vast majority of brit historians is that he is a complete atheist and left winger who really has not a clue about understanding the religious changes in england - a bit of a drawback dont you think.
On the non fiction side go for jj scarisbrick and eamon duffy ( the stripping of the altars ). They say the new david loades biography of HVIII is fantastic - its the first one since scarisbrick's. Avoid Starkey like anything - a competent historian but again no real understanding of what we're about, and very arrogant in his views.. Collinson's good.
englands catholic past is a hot hot topic here. i'm involved in shakespeare's catholicism - its a tremendous but exciting battlefield i can tell you!
a lovely lady tudor writer is Dixie Atkins, beautiful kind of memoirs of Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. She publishes privately so you might not get her in the States. My wife raves about her. Another is Philipa Gregory - she's ok but i dont think she got any religion.
i have no connection with any of above though i do know prof scarisbrick ( he founded the pro life movement in UK ) and Dixie runs a theatre near me.
if you cant get her do let me know on the board.
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