At a picnic outside Seattle two or three years back, a new friend seasoned a conversation by suggesting I might find Susan Howatch’s novels to provide some entertaining light reading. Entertaining, in spades. Light, not for a minute. Howatch stewards a strong novelist’s capacity to construct her characters, wielding this craft in combination with an [...]
Archive for February, 2012
slow-motion disaster, timely redemption: Susan Howatch, The Wonder Worker
Posted in reseña on February 19, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Por invitación: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, La gracia barata (Alexander Cabezas Mora)
Posted in por invitación on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
El 9 de abril de 1945, se recuerda la muerte de Dietrich Bonhoeffer, quien en vida fue pastor y teólogo de la iglesia luterana de Alemania. Este erudito, quien se ordenó y se doctoró a sus 21 años, escritor de varios libros; se le conoce por su coraje y compromiso cristiano. Cuando la Iglesia Católica [...]
dirty water: Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King, Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
Posted in reseña, small ball, tagged baseball, reseña, small ball on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s difficult to imagine a more unlikely book concept. And *impossible* to absorb the luck of its timing. Two novelists, quite unlike each other except for their deep-structure attachment to the Boston Red Sox, trade emails over the course of a 162-game baseball season, supplemented–dramatically, gorgeously, gloriously–by a post-season that must be acknowledged as one [...]
three empty dog dishes can’t be wrong: Canidae Dry Dog Food, Chicken Meal and Rice Formula, 30-Pound Bag
Posted in fauna, reseña, tagged fauna, reseña on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My two Rhodesian Ridgebacks and one Labrador Retriever are no pushovers. Even other varieties of highly regarded Canidae food have left them looking up at me over lightly rearranged bowls of food with that ‘Why have you turned against us again?’ look.
terrifying: Exodus 14
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Exodus, textures on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
With something like the explanatory potency of Genesis’ account of human origins, the story of the Hebrew slaves fleeing their ‘house of servitude’ in the book of Exodus strikes the hearer with stunning immediacy. We recognize our own terror in theirs, hemmed in by the sea ahead, besieged by the tromping of Egyptian boots, driven [...]
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