One of my purposes for this site is to alert you to new books that may miss your radar screen. So I’ve got 2 minutes to create this post, so I’ll just take a moment to point out a new book that’s just been published and looks pretty promising so far: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. If you read it, let
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Hope everyone had a good weekend and is excited to go into another work week. I, for one, am ready for the weekend to be over as I was sick for most of it, including today, and I’m not looking forward to facing the pile tomorrow morning. Oh well. Should have gone to the Glorietta conference afterall. . . Alrighty
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This appeared on CNN.com recently. The National Catholic reporter John Allen wondered about the thousands of hard-core Da Vinci Code fans called “Code-heads” flocking to France to examine sites named in Dan Brown’s novel: “I think the deeper spiritual question here that the church really has to ask is, how is it that they have a hard time getting people
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Maybe you’re my kind of geek, with far too much good stuff on your shelves to read in your lifetime, half-tempted to wring your hands and say, Aw, screw it! i can’t possibly go into another Barnes and Noble or Borders and browse the new books, smell the beautiful smell and crack the perfect crack of the binding, only to
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