Semicolon Book Club: Esther by Chuck Swindoll
This post necessarily combines thoughts about the book of Esther in the Bible and about Chuck Swindoll’s commentary on Esther, titled Esther: A Woman of Strength and Dignity. Mr. Swindoll’s book is the January selection for the Semicolon Book Club, and I chose it because the women of my church will be discussing and studying [...]
Semicolon Book Club: Off to a Slow but Steady Start
I’ve been trying to get a book club going, both online and in person, for a couple of years now. Last year I got people committed and chose books for each month, and then stuff happened. January and February went fairly well, and then March got crazy, and in April my dad died. Then sometime [...]
Sunday Salon: Twelve Projects for 2010
For the last couple of years, instead of resolutions, I’ve been thinking in terms of projects, lots of projects that I wanted to complete during the year. I wouldn’t say I was any more or less successful with my projects than most people are with resolutions, but I like the tradition anyway and plan to [...]
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
The front page of the copy of this Pulitzer prize-winning novel that I got from the library says that MacKinlay Kantor “planned the writing of Andersonville, his masterwork, for twenty-five years.” I can believe it. The novel is 750 pages long and almost unbelievably detailed in its treatment of the Confederate prison of war camp [...]
Sunday Salon: The Pulitzer Project
I’m supposed to be working on reading, or at least trying out, all of the Pulitzer Prize winning novels. I even joined this project to accomplish that very thing, but I haven’t posted there in a long time. Here’s my list of books I had read when I first joined the project in 2007:
2005 – [...]
The Underneath and Me
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt was the Semicolon Book Club selection for May, and Amy at Hope Is the Word is on top of it. She’s right in pointing out that this book was somewhat controversial in its treatment of cruelty to animals, and I agree with her that the book is for older children [...]
Sunday Salon: Gleaned from the Saturday Review and Other Places
These books are the ones I’m adding to my own unmanageable reading list. I can hardly wait to read them all plus the 100+ others on my list. Thanks to everyone for all of the great suggestions.
The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide. Recommended by Dawn at 5 Minutes for Books. I’d like to [...]
Sunday Salon: Books Read in March, 2009
I read a LOT of books in March, mostly because I wasn’t blogging, but also because of some personal stuff going on in my life that enabled/forced me to sit in waiting rooms and and other waiting places regularly. I’ve written about most of these books in my Lenten journal, and I’ll be blogging [...]
Semicolon Book Club: January
We just adjourned the first meeting of the Semicolon Book Club for 2009. We discussed the two book selections for January:
Heaven by Randy Alcorn.
Heaven: Your Real Home by Joni Eareckson Tada.
There were only three of us in attendance, but we really enjoyed discussing the joys and possibilities of heaven, the place where we will live [...]
Schuyler’s Monster by Robert Rummel-Hudson
Schuyler’s Monster: A Father’s Journey With His Wordless Daughter.
Robert Rummel-Hudson’s blog: Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords.
Yes, this book is about a little girl named Schuyler (pronounced Skylar) with a brain malformation called bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria. This condition, probably congenital in Schuyler’s case, can cause several problems, but Schuyler’s main, most obvious problem is an inability [...]
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