tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post5466642725072076909..comments2023-12-07T20:31:28.197-05:00Comments on Islands of Joy: Books to ReadSørina Higginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10907200327850346539noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-6735747040137004552012-06-12T10:58:44.396-05:002012-06-12T10:58:44.396-05:00Rosie: Enjoy the Glen!!!! We expect a report when ...Rosie: Enjoy the Glen!!!! We expect a report when you get back. :)Sørina Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10907200327850346539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-3014563727149502312012-06-12T10:58:19.875-05:002012-06-12T10:58:19.875-05:00Brenton:
Aw, thanks! Good suggestions. And I did...Brenton: <br /><br />Aw, thanks! Good suggestions. And I didn't remember all of them; I made notes as I went along. :)Sørina Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10907200327850346539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-54170490408822163262012-06-12T10:57:35.992-05:002012-06-12T10:57:35.992-05:00I've never read Brother Cadfael. I'd proba...I've never read Brother Cadfael. I'd probably love them! <br /><br />I've just made the commenting process easier, even though that means I'll have to wade through piles of spam. I'll do it for you guys!Sørina Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10907200327850346539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-30841132067452764062012-06-12T10:56:45.096-05:002012-06-12T10:56:45.096-05:00Ron: What did you think? I've just borrowed th...Ron: What did you think? I've just borrowed the second one from somebody here and will start it this afternoon. I really hated the first one, and not for the reasons I expected too. Well, those also, but other even more disturbing elements. I suppose I'll have to blog about itSørina Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10907200327850346539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-41761046558905964432012-06-12T10:55:50.702-05:002012-06-12T10:55:50.702-05:00David: Thanks for the suggestions. Underhill I kno...David: Thanks for the suggestions. Underhill I know, because of the Charles Williams connection, but I hadn't heard of Leif Enger.Sørina Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10907200327850346539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-59413581331444309462012-06-12T07:55:30.538-05:002012-06-12T07:55:30.538-05:00Other books by Kathleen Norris that are also good:...Other books by Kathleen Norris that are also good:<br /><br />Dakota: A Spiritual Geography<br />Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life<br /><br />It so happens that I'm at the Glen Workshop right now, in So. Hadley (Mt. Holyoke College), where Kathleen Norris is the keynote speaker and chaplain. She's a treat to listen to.Rosie Pererahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09554035581795923555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-34836488251311170312012-06-12T04:52:19.738-05:002012-06-12T04:52:19.738-05:00Wow, an overwhelming list. I'm not sure how yo...Wow, an overwhelming list. I'm not sure how you remembered all this. I'd also add:<br /><br />Marilyn Robinson, <i>When I was a Child I Used to Read Books</i><br />Madeleine L'Engle popped up frequently<br />I've ordered Crystal Downing's, <i>Changing Signs of Truth: A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication</i> and <i>How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art</i><br /><br />There was also an excellent poetry reading by a young Sorina Higgins from her book <i>Caduceus.</i> Just saying. <br /><br />And, at dinner we heard of upcoming books on Sheldon Vanauken (an illicit biography) and Alan Jacobs is working on something about the crush of ideas in Winter 1943.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-85126548555773419582012-06-12T00:27:57.856-05:002012-06-12T00:27:57.856-05:00The English Patient is one of my favorite books --...<i>The English Patient</i> is one of my favorite books -- one of the few that I actually wept while reading and whose passages I sometimes read again and again. I don't usually re-read books, not even my favorite ones. There are just so many others!<br /><br />Otherwise, your list reads like a segment of my list(s). I have them scattered about the apartment. Do you know what's terrible? Having so many interesting books awaiting me on the shelf but no time to read them! Such as Chaim Potok's <i>The Chosen</i>.<br /><br />High on my list now -- but not on my shelves or Kindle -- are Guy Gavriel Kay's <i>The Lions of Al-Rassan</i>, Merle Miller's <i>A Gay and Melancholy Sound</i>, and Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael medieval mystery series. Have you ever read a Brother Cadfael story? I think you'd enjoy them!<br /><br />p.s. figuring out how to comment on here is taking me some time...this will now be my fourth try. I am not a robot, I swear!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-6499628147161004802012-06-11T21:33:30.530-05:002012-06-11T21:33:30.530-05:00Wouldn't you know. I was reading the second Hu...Wouldn't you know. I was reading the second Hunger Games book on my flight to Indiana.Ron Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-6274073771977044692012-06-11T21:30:16.804-05:002012-06-11T21:30:16.804-05:00You've got a good list going! I would add Leif...You've got a good list going! I would add Leif Enger's Peace like a River and Evelyn Underhill's Mystics of the Church.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com