About a month ago over in coinherence I challenged Charles Williams fans to enter the National Novel Writing Month challenge to write a 50000 word novel in a month, and to try to write a Charles Williams-type novel ( Read more... )

I was cleaning out my had disk yesterday, and came upon this review which I wrote about 10 years ago.

McAteaney of Marritsborough's new book, Holy chyme and holy cauldron, published last week by Donkergat, seems likely to cause a radical re-evaluation of conventional wisdom about several of the world's major (and minor) religions, and casts doubt ( Read more... )

In the alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox newsgroup someone started yet another discussion of Dan Brown's overhyped novel The da Vinci code.

In the course of the discussion someone suggested that St Paul had had a hand in the beheading of St James.

Since The da Vinci code seems to have increased the popularity of novels of the "startling new ( Read more... )

I've just finished reading

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A couple of weeks ago my son, who works in a bookshop, came home with a book The big ugly monster and the little stone rabbit. He made some comments about what he thought was the undeserved popularity of The da Vinci code, and said he thought The big ugly monster and the little stone rabbit was far better, and that it was literature ( Read more... )