The silence, the distance and space, is everything that the clutter of cities below are not.Tim Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity After a patron highly recommended it, I picked up a copy of Timothy Egan’s A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith and listened to it. It was everything…
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Freshman Boady Sanden’s life at St. Ignatius High is miserable and it only gets worse when, one day in the school cafeteria, he trips one of the school bullies and thwarts his scheme to dump…
“A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.” The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern When we first meet our protagonist Zach, he’s on winter break in his last year of grad school. He’s wandering around the library looking for a good book to read and…
Near the end of Olive, Again, the eponymous character concludes: “I do not have a clue who I have been. Truthfully, I do not understand a thing.” But the reader of Elizabeth Strout’s two books about Olive Kitteridge understands a lot about Olive and, if they’re like me, have come to love this tough old…
“The implacability and violence of nature always awed him. That it could be entirely heedless and yet so beautiful. That awed him. But also its intricate intelligence. Its balancings. Its quiet compensations. It was like some unnamed justice permeated everything. He would not go further than that. Still, the workings of nature made the voracious,…
“That is how science and medicine are practiced best, though—we are best when we admit our ignorance up front, and then attempt to fill the darkness of not-knowing with the light of information and knowledge.” ---from The Wanderers by Chuck Wendig One morning in rural Pennsylvania, Shana’s younger sister Nessa gets up out her bed…
Martha had a full and busy life volunteering at the seaside village’s library and helping her friends and family out by doing the chores they had no time to do--- laundry, mending their clothes and watching sister’s kids and much more. She never said no to a request for a favor even though her house…
Elly Griffiths, who is probably best known as the author of the popular Ruth Galloway mystery series, has written an eerie stand-alone Gothic murder mystery, The Stranger Diaries, set in a haunted British boarding school. I had high hopes for this book and was not disappointed! Claire Cassidy teaches English and creative writing at Talgarth…
When Joe Thorne receives a mysterious email from an anonymous sender saying only ‘it’s happening again’, he knows he must return to his hometown of Arnhill, an old English mining town that has seen better days. He returns reluctantly, gets a teaching job at his old high school and soon finds out that no one…
Inevitably, when the calendar turns to a New Year, newspapers and social media are filled with helpful resolutions that one can make to improve oneself by dieting, bullet journaling, clearing clutter, meditating, exercising, etc. etc. If you’re looking for a new twist on the old resolution idea, you might consider accepting a reading challenge for…
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