Taken with my smudgy phone camera on my way through our local big-chain bookstore. What a menagerie! Pictured:
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle’s popular Easternish mystic self-help catechism.
The Shack
Written by William P. Young and recommended by everyone I know, and their cousin. No less than Eugene Peterson, for crying out loud, compares this to Pilgrim’s Progress! All right, […]
I am a huge fan of the listener-essay series, This I Believe, on NPR. With the tagline, “a public dialogue about belief — one essay at a time,” this reincarnation of a 1950’s radio show is a deep trove of thoughtful and beautiful writing, as well as a great resource for teaching and learning to write.
If you are […]
The fantastically helpful Janice Campbell has reviewed Miss Thistlebottom’s Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer’s Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears, and Outmoded Rules of English Usage; Lynn Truss’ (or is that Truss’s?) aggressive panda is back for the kids in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, and from his first year […]
