I had such fun reading the first Percy Jackson book that I decided to keep on, once I figured out how to work Hoopla when no internet connection was present (THAT was its own ordeal, trust me. Add to it that I spent 48 hours without internet, and there *might* have been a panic about lack of access to books or the news. Obviously, I made it through just fine, as you can see from this review). My perception of the series continues—it’s fun and […]
Enjoying Spain with Percy Jackson
I remember when The Lightning Thief first came out, and I enjoyed the first book immensely. I received the whole series as a Christmas present but sadly never finished the other books, so I decided that this summer was the absolute time to correct it. And what better way to shoehorn free time on an international trip than with a fun middle-grade series? Percy Jackson is not like other twelve-year-old boys. He is dyslexic and funny and strange things always happen to him. He’s always […]
More C.S. Lewis in space!
I read this book while touring Spain on the bus and in between taking shots of gorgeous olive tree hillsides. We did have a few days where we were riding the bus for 3-4 hour stretches to get to the south of Spain and back to Madrid, and that’s when a good chunk of my reading happened for this book. It’s a little more memorable than Out of the Silent Planet, because of Lewis’s cultural context. Let’s dig in. C.S. Lewis the character goes to […]
C.S. Lewis’s weird space allegory, unpacked
It’s a little surreal to be touring Spain while reading a trippy and bizarre space allegory by C.S. Lewis, but that’s where a big portion of June found me. If this review is a bit incomprehensible, then you’ll know why. I’ve heard of the Space Trilogy but never read it until my library offered up all THREE books in one ebook. Naturally, I borrowed it. [Sidenote: I absolutely panicked about twelve days in Spain, so I had my librarian help me figure out Overdrive, Hoopla, […]
Grammar(s) of God
Because of scheduling conflicts, we’ve had to merge June and July’s books for our friend book club. A has chosen The Grammar of God to complement What Is the Bible? and I believe their thematic similarities will provoke an interesting discussion next week. At the very least, the more memoir and academic focus of this book gave me a lot to think about. Aviya Kushner had done journalism in Israel and was on a plane back to New York on September 11, 2011. She decided […]
Ending the Anne books, and it’s bittersweet.
It’s a little sad coming to the end of a beloved series, and this is a sad book to close the series off. I always come away from this book glad and a little verklempt at the same time. We’ve been building to the Great War, and Montgomery finally dives in, with details from the homefront aspect of fighting, which gives a new perspective to a war novel. This book, like so many others, is haunted by the soldiers who sacrificed and the families who […]
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