The February selection for the Semicolon Book club was Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis. Till We Have Faces was Lewis’s last work of fiction, and he considered it his best. The particular “myth retold” is that of Cupid and Psyche. It’s a story Lewis considered retelling over the course of …
Monthly Archive: February 2010
Feb 27
Many Happy Returns: February 27th
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, b. 1807 (only five years after Victor Hugo). It Is Not Always May: …
Feb 26
Saturday Review of Books: February 27, 2010
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realise it best when we talk with an unliterary friend. He may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should …
Feb 25
12 Best Booklists of 2009
Since I’m on hiatus from Semicolon for Lent, I thought I’d leave you with this list of lists. Anyone can always use a few more good booklists. Fuse #8′s Top 100 Picture Books. Rebecca Reid’s Reading Lists. Links to various award lists and lists from books and list of favorites. CaribousMom List of Lists. U.S. …
Feb 23
The Cain and Abel Motif
I’m setting these speculations to post on a Tuesday, the day that LOST airs in the U.S., but I am still on blog hiatus for Lent. My Cain and Abel thoughts may be outdated or superseded by events in the TV show by the time this post appears. Cain and Abel were the first brothers. …
Feb 20
12 Best Semicolon Posts of 2009
SInce I’m on blog break for Lent, I thought a few posts from the past might be in order. Enjoy. Schuyler’s Monster by Rober Rummel-Hudson. Biographies of the U.S. Presidents. One of my project post about the U.S. Presidents Reading Project. I managed to read biographies of three presidents this year: George Washington, John Adams, …
Feb 19
Saturday Review of Books: February 20, 2010
“Between them they read about three hundred books a year. He read for facts, she for transport. Nothing about them was rich except their days swollen with time.”~The Maytrees by Annie Dillard If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how …
Feb 19
Boarding School Books
25 Best Boarding School books by Sara Ebner at The London Times. This list is very British, as might be expected given the source, although Ms. Ebner does include the Americans, Catcher in the Rye and Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. I’ve read neither of the American selections, nor have I read many of the other …
Feb 18
Forest Born by Shannon Hale
Forest Born is the fourth in Shannon Hale’s Books of Bayern series, a series that began with The Goose Girl, Ms. Hale’s debut novel and the one that made a name for her, winning all kinds of awards and accolades. The Goose Girl tells the story of crown princess Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee of Kildenree, aka …
Feb 17
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Miles’s twin brother Hayden has been missing for ten years. Every year or two Miles receives a letter or an email or a phone call that sends him off on another wild goose chase to locate and perhaps rescue his mentally disturbed, possibly criminal, brother. A few days after graduation Lucy Lattimore leaves her hometown …
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