Monthly Archives: January 2007
Thoughts on Sharing More
(Another graphic you can use, if you’d like.) I really like to share what I’ve read here on my blog and get your feedback on it. We’ve had some good conversations. But writing book reviews isn’t easy for me. I … Continue reading
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Overheard
“There are 17 million Anglicans in Nigeria and about 350,000 people in the PCA worldwide. You could fit our entire denomination in Talledega Motor Speedway.”
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Por Favor
I need a few people with different browsers and internet connection speeds (dial-up, dsl, etc.) to report in and tell me how quickly/accurately this page is loading for you. Thank you! http://www.wingedfeetdesign.com/portfolio
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Technical Difficulties
For some reason, our Akismet spam filter has gotten a little overly aggressive lately. Please don’t get offended if your comment spends a while in filter purgatory. :o/
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Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
I expected great things from Housekeeping and Marilynne Robinson did not disappoint. I read her second novel, Gilead, last year and thoroughly enjoyed it but Housekeeping surpassed it by its gratifying use of language and description. Robinson has an breathtaking … Continue reading
IMPORTANT: Infant Car Seats *UPDATE*
Consumer Reports did some extensive testing of infant car seats with alarming results using a 35-mph frontal crash test and in a 38-mph side crash test, which is still not *that* fast. Car seats flew off their bases, rotated too … Continue reading
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Southern authors, y’all?
In spite of the fact that I had all of my literary education in the South, there is a huge hole where Southern literature should be in my soul. I have never read a book by William Faulkner, Walker Percy, … Continue reading
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Overheard, travel edition
We returned yesterday from 12 days of traveling (2000 miles, 8 states.) Anyhow, here are some signs you’ve been hitting the drive-thru Starbucks a little too often. When your two and a half year old (a) knows that the St. … Continue reading
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TCL Reading Challenge 2007
Plan better. Read more. Share more. That’s the 2007 reading challenge here at This Classical Life. It’s simple and flexible and you are cordially invited. I really like using lists of bests to help plan. When I think of a … Continue reading
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Books Read in 2006
(loosely classified) CLASSICS: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev Edith Schaeffer, L’Abri Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life … Continue reading
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| Keller
| Cohen
| Dahl
| Zusak
| Winton
| Waugh
| Gregory
| Collins
| Collins
| Collins
| Dermont
| DeGroat
| Ireton
| Glaeser
| Green
| Palacio
| L'Engle
| Larson
| Tchividjian
| Estes
| Zarr
| McLain
| Barbery
| Fitzpatrick
| Zusak
| Tickle
| Ricks
| Lupton
| Green
| Metaxas
| Wolters
