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Tag Archives: Flannery O’Connor
2020: A Year of Reading: The Nerd Bit, with Charts
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”~ C.S. Lewis “On Stories” 2020 was my first full year … Continue reading
2020: My Year in Books: The Infographic
Happy New Year everyone! I will have some fun putting together the data in an upcoming post, including some new charts. I love charts. Meanwhile, I wanted to share the Goodreads “My Year in Books” infographic. I’m pleased to say … Continue reading
Posted in News & Links
Tagged Anne Rice, C.S. Lewis, Chaim Potok, Charlotte Brontë, Flannery O'Connor, Frederick Buechner, Goodreads, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, L.M. Montgomery, Madeleine L'Engle, Marilynne Robinson, Octavia Butler, Reading, Shūsaku Endō, Stephen King
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2019: A Year of Reading: The Nerd Bit, with Charts
“With such wishes for the New Year as still seem possible” ~ C.S. Lewis to his father from the WWI trenches in France “Except at my job—where the machine seems to run on much as usual—I loathe the slightest effort. … Continue reading
Posted in Original Research, Reflections
Tagged A.N. Wilson, Alan Jacobs, C.S. Lewis, Chaim Potok, Flannery O'Connor, Goodreads, Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, N.K. Jemisin, Narnia, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Rachel Held Evans, Reading, Sorina Higgins, Stephen King, Suzanne Collins, Terry Pratchett
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2019: My Year in Books: The Infographic
Happy New Year everyone! I will have some fun putting together the data in an upcoming post, including some new date charts. It’s not often I get to play with graphs and charts, so I’m looking forward to it. Meanwhile, … Continue reading
Posted in News & Links
Tagged A.N. Wilson, Alan Jacobs, C.S. Lewis, Chaim Potok, Flannery O'Connor, Goodreads, Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, N.K. Jemisin, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Rachel Held Evans, Reading, Sorina Higgins, Stephen King, Suzanne Collins, Terry Pratchett
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A Narnian Close Read: Friday Feature
A resource recently came to me from a homeschool mom. I am honestly not very connected to that kind of network, so I was pleased to bump into the “Close Reads Podcast,” hosted at the Circe Institute. Past books featured … Continue reading
New Approaches to Academic Writing: An Unusual Marking Note for a Good Student
I am at that time of year when the marking pile on my desk is higher than my laptop screen. Like a fool, each year, I go into the marking expecting great things. So far, I have never had a … Continue reading
Posted in On Writing, Thoughtful Essays
Tagged academic, Alice Walker, autoethnography, B.R. Myers, Christopher Hitchens, Corey Olsen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell, Harold Bloom, John Updike, literary criticism, Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, research, Roxane Gay, Slavoj Žižek, Stanley Fish, Teaching, Terry Eagleton, theology, Ursula K. Le Guin, Virginia Woolf, writing
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On Pretending to be in a PhD (pt. 2)
In my 400th blog post I noted that in 2011 I began pretending I was in a PhD. It is doubtless an odd thing to say, though it has been normal for me for so long I didn’t even think … Continue reading
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