I wrote this for another blog a short time ago, but I thought some of you might be interested. I wasn’t sure about this book when I first started reading it, but by the end, I greatly appreciated it.
Tag: Literature
Review: The Wind in the Willows
I knew of The Wind in the Willows stories from the family evening readings of my childhood. Even so, all I could really remember is that there was a character called Toad and another called Frog and they hung out together. After reading this book, I know now that we must have been reading a different …
Repost: Review – The Great Gatsby
A repost from another blog I write for. I recently read a classic that has been on my “to read” list for years but had never gotten around to reading: Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. I’ll be quite honest, about halfway through the book I didn’t understand why it had been made into a movie or why …
Morning thoughts on “The Weight of Glory”
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant …
Comments on the “Dresden Files”
I decided about a week ago to pick up Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series again after not looking at them for about a year. My husband had read the series and said that I would really like them. While he was correct on other series suggested to me, such as the Codex Alera and Wheel of Time, I did not …
Madelyn Rose Craig 