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January 26, 2004
Reading List
Having recently finished Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop (a wonderful, gentle, and fine tribute to Jean-Marie Latour--a fictional biographical retelling of the story of the life of the first Archbishop of Santa Fe) it behooved me to hie me to the bookstore and seek out what lay upon the remaindered shelves.
Doing so I discovered the following delectable commodities and took it upon myself to acquire them:
Steven Millhauser--Martin Dressler
Tom Wolfe--Hooking Up (with its amazingly excoriating look at John Updike, John Irving, and Norman Mailer called "My Three Stooges."
Frank Kermode--The Language of Shakespeare a magisterial, but approachable study of the Bard, examining the growth and development of the poetic genius through the entire corpus of his work.
These three have been added to the list to read nearly immediately along with C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. (I suggested that we also look at The Snakebite Letters by Peter Kreeft and Lord Foulgrin's Letters by Randy Alcorn to see how the genre, small though it is , has prospered.)
Missed the discussion yesterday of Our Lady of the Forest largely because I could not penetrate its murky depths because I simply didn't care.
Posted by Steven Riddle at January 26, 2004 8:31 AM
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Looking forward to Screwtape, one of my very favorite books
Posted by: Peony Moss at January 26, 2004 9:28 AM
Loved Screwtape. Loved Snakebite. Haven't even heard of Lord Foulgrin. I'll have to look it up.
I've got to stay away from the remainder bins....
I'm running out of grocery money, and my stack of "to reads" may fall over and bury me.
Posted by: Terry at January 26, 2004 5:06 PM