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The Haunting Death: Lewis, Buechner, and Me on the Loss of a Parent
Lewis in Letters I’ve read, now, about 200 pages of Lewis’ letters. This is just a small slice of the 2000 pages of his letters I have in my bookshelves. But it is enough to begin to see patterns and … Continue reading
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The Pilgrim’s Regress and the Reader’s Progress
As much as I always love it, reading Lewis occasionally reminds me of how I’m so deficient in “the literary canon”—the great pieces of literature that everyone has read; a.k.a., the books I should have read already. All too often … Continue reading
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Tagged Blake, C.S. Lewis, Chaim Potok, E.B. White, Flaubert, George MacDonald, Giller Award, heaven, hell, Jane Austin, Kafka, Lemony Snicket, Newberry, Paulo Coehlo, Pilgrim's Progress, Pilgrim's Regress, pretentious, Shel Silverstein, Steinbeck, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Tolkien
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