A Lying Liar of a Comment

Someone posted this comment on my review of Dave Cullen’s Columbine on www.my52books.com. I’m not sure the need for the insults, the double slurs (lying liar, and calling me an idiot twice!), and I’m interested in what this guy had a problem with both in my review and in the book itself. The irony is [...]

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Missing Holden Caulfield? I Have a Solution!

If you need comforting during this time since the passing of J. D. Salinger, then why not go running headlong into the arms of the best movie version of The Catcher in the Rye? As you may already know, there is actually no movie version of Catcher, as Salinger was fiercely protective of his work. [...]

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Salinger Dies

I’m sad to here this, even though the guy lived a long (albeit bizarre) life. Catcher in the Rye is still my favorite book to teach. It’s one of only a handful that all the students read. There’s something about Holden that connected to students today just as he did in the 1950s. There’s been [...]

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Why I Will Not Buy a Kindle

“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity… we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.” -A.E. Newton

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Reading Through the Bible in a Year

As you consider ways to reading through the Bible in 2010, consider these plans. I want to encourage you to pick a specific plan to help to keep you accountable on track. Any plan will help with your goal. I’m attaching the plan that Kristie and I did this year, and I will start again [...]

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How to Read More

Advice from a bibliophile on how to read more in one's daily life. http://spurgeon.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/tip-1-capture-reading-time/

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Reading Through the Bible in a Year

Here is a link to many plans to read through the Bible in a year. There are 10 under ESV Study Bible plans that are set up to email you the daily text. http://theologica.blogspot.com/2008/12/bible-reading-plans.html

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Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O’Connor has been one of my favorite authors for years, so much so, that I want to name our yet-to-be-conceived daughter “Flannery.” (Don’t judge: take a look at those vapid names you’ve named your children!) After reading and teaching her over the years, I’ve never heard her speak. Until this morning. I found this [...]

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What Would Lewis Have to Say about This?

I found this curious comment in the shipping section for this used book. We can't have those prison Christians joyful, can we?

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Famous First Lines

Match the title of the story/novel with its first line. (taken from Art Peterson’s The Writer’s Workout Book) A. Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury B. Peter Pan- J. M. Barrie C. Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keys D. One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez E. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man- James Joyce [...]

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