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THE OLDEST, DEEPEST STATE.
Yes, the United State is a Constitutional republic of long standing, and yet, long before the Framers envisioned the Electoral College, there was the College of Cardinals in conclave assembled to elect popes ( Read more... ) -
RASKOLNIKOV'S NOTEBOOK.
A local coffee house also sells used books, and on its shelves was The Bishop and the Missing L Train: A Blackie Ryan Story, by the late Father Andrew M. Greeley. The notion of someone stealing an L train appealed to this ferroequinologist, and for three bucks, why not offer up Book Review No. 13The train part of the story is tangential, as one ( Read more... ) -
BETTER TO RULE IN HELL THAN SERVE IN HEAVEN.
We'll conclude the quest for fifty book reports in 2016 at Book Review No. 34, which is Michael Walsh's The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West. Yes, it's another in the theme of Higher Education Has Gone Nuts, but there's some provocative stuff dealing with Original Sin and Faustian Bargains and ( Read more... ) -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
book 65: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
I guess I would best call The Prophet a semi-fictional parable broken into chapters on different life/ spiritual subjects, with an introductory and closing story, all written in prose/ poetry. The last section, The Farewell, felt a bit melodramatic and verbose, but otherwise my reaction to this classic was " ( Read more... ) -
DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
book 38: DaVinci Code by Dan Brown ( Read more... ) -
Books 15 & 16 - 2015
Book 15: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich - 290 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
ONE FINE MESS Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash-fast-but ( Read more... ) -
My Own Book of Prayers by Mary Batchelor
book 14: My Own Book of Prayers by Mary Batchelor ( Read more... )
