March has been flying so quickly, and I thought I had not read much this past month; this probably reflects my frustration when, after my morning online French tutoring, and my afternoon work at the library, I cannot enjoy a good few hours of leisurely reading because I have to work on some major translation [...]
Archive for March, 2011
25 Mar
Philokalia – Maximos the Confessor – excerpts
“The human intellect lacks the power to ascend and to participate in divine illumination, unless God Himself draws it up -in so far as this is possible for the human intellect- and illumines it with rays of divine light.” Maximos The Confessor, First Century on Theology #31, p.120 Philokalia vol.2 “When what has been created [...]
25 Mar
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 03/26-27
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 03/26-27/2011 As a painter AND a reader, I love this painting: the rendering of the light is fantastic and warm, and it speaks to me about enlightenment coming through reading as well. Well, spring light is here at last, BUT I’m stuck in the darkness of 2 heavy [...]
18 Mar
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 103/19-20
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 03/19-20/2011 The coolest readers I have ever had This week I don’t seem to have run into new exciting titles. So here is the top of my 2011 TBR list: Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett Swann’s Way, by Proust Tantalus and the pelican: exploring monastic spirituality today, by Buxton [...]
18 Mar
Friday Meme: Reading Multiples and Blog Names
Blogger Hop Question of the Week: Do you read only one book at a time, or do you have several going at once? I usually have at least 4 books going on at the same time: 1 fiction, 1 non-fiction, 1 religious, and 1 audiobook [which can be either fiction or non-fiction]. I have actually [...]
11 Mar
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 03/11-12
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 03/11-12/2011 Torre Pacheco, Spain The first migrating robin is back around Chicago! I know it does not mean that snow is over, but still, that’s a good sign. This past week was very rich in literary events, and my book fishing has brought quite a few exciting titles. But [...]
10 Mar
All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost
All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost by Lan Samantha CHANG 205 pages ABOUT THE BOOK A haunting story of art, ambition, love, and friendship by a writer of elegant, exacting prose. At the renowned writing school in Bonneville, every student is simultaneously terrified of and attracted to the charismatic and mysterious poet and professor Miranda [...]
10 Mar
The Band that Played On
The Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic by Steve TURNER 221 pages ISBN-13: 978-1595552198 (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson) This book counts for My Dewey Decimal Challenge and for The 2011 Non-Fiction Challenge Many books and documents have been published on the tragedy [...]
4 Mar
Good books for your week-end 3/5-6
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 03/05-06/2011 Kansas City Public Library My fishing net has not brought back much this week. Here are a few titles to consider, as you may be watching the first crocus coming out?? The Man in my Basement, by Walter Mosley I loved so much The Last Days of [...]
3 Mar
Kallistos Ware: On the Orthodox-Evangelical dialogue
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware On the Orthodox-Evangelical dialogue Personal notes during a talk delivered on 2/21/2011 at Wheaton College, IL You can now listen online to this talk! These notes are very partial, I mostly wrote down a few quotations and what I considered spiritually nourishing for myself in my daily life. Please do not [...]
3 Mar
Kallistos Ware: Word And Silence in the Philokalia
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Word And Silence in the Philokalia Personal notes during a talk delivered on 2/22/2011 at North Park University, IL You can now listen online to this talk! Before the talk, a student gave a short presentation showing how the Philokalia helps him in his daily life. Note: these are just limited [...]
2 Mar
HarperCollins, ebooks, and libraries
You probably all know by now that “under the new policy, announced by distributor Overdrive in a letter to customers last week, libraries will only be able to lend out each purchased ebook published by HarperCollins a total of 26 times before the book’s lifetime expires.” [quoted from this article, where you can learn [...]
1 Mar
Read in February 2011
Strangely enough, although the month of February had only 28 days, I could not wait for it to finish. Is it with the illusion that spring would be here on March 1st? Certainly not in the Midwest… And so, as snowy, gloomy and cold days follow one another without much change, my list of read [...]
1 Mar
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar WILDE 54 pages This counts for: Victorian Literature Challenge ABOUT THE BOOK The Importance of being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James’s Theatre in London, the play is a farcical comedy [...]
1 Mar
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle MORAN 440 pages ABOUT THE BOOK The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire . . . but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to [...]
