I hope that somehow this proximity to Jane’s life will help me understand my own. This was the perfect nonfiction book to cap the 250th celebration of Jane Austen's birth and my re-reading of her various books, short stories and juvenilia. The Premise Lori Smith is at a painful and difficult time in her life. …
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Penguins and Golden Calves, Madeleine L’Engle (1996)
An icon should give us glimpses of our God who is both immanent and transcendent, knowable and unknowable. If an icon becomes more important to us than what it reveals of God, then it becomes a golden calf…. Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Unexpected Places describes L’Engle’s trip to …
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The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2006)
I like Joan Didion’s work, but when this was originally released my best friend was dying and I just couldn’t touch it. Even though the book wasn’t about cancer, I didn’t want to read about death, as if doing so would be a jinx. And ha! now I understand that was MY bit of magical …
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