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Books Read June 2020
Francis Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, p/b, London, Scholastic, 2015 (1911) Burnett was English born but grew up and published in the USA. The Secret Garden was not a great success at first but has become an absolute favourite … Continue reading
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BOOKS READ MAY 2020
BOOKS READ MAY 2020 John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps, p/b, Camberwell, Penguin, 2005 (1915) Scot John Buchan became one of England’s favourite sons, achieving Greats at Oxford as well as the Newdigate Prize for poetry and graduating in law and … Continue reading
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BOOKS READ APRIL 2020
John Le Carré: Agent Running in the Field,p/b, London, Viking/Penguin, 2019 David John Moore Cornwell, more commonly known as John Le Carré is 90 years old and has written at lease 25 novels pretty much all in the espionage/intelligence genre. … Continue reading
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An Easter Exercise for isolated corona virus individuals
An Easter Exercise for isolated thinkers during the Corona Virus from the book: John Dickson: If I Were God, I’d Make myself Clearer: Searching for Clarity in a World Full of Claims, p/b, Kingsford, Matthias Media, 2002 John Dickson is … Continue reading
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BOOKS READ MARCH 2020 (only 2 books this month as I have been cataloguing my library; but also a wonderful poem!)
Ann Patchett: The Dutch House, p/b, London, Bloomsbury, 2019 American bookseller, journalist and influential author Ann Patchett’s eleventh novel has a House as its central character! The Dutch House is an ecclectic, over-engineered and richly furnished mansion in a quiet … Continue reading
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Joy Cullen: The Reverend George Cox: ‘A Man of Many Parts’, p/b, Mornington & District Historical Society, 2019 Teacher and historian Joy Cullen has uncovered a remarkablestory with her investigation into the “Renaissance life” of the Gippsland clergyman, fire-fighting, naturalist, … Continue reading
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Challenging ideas from Timothy Keller’s “The Reason For God” [London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2009]
Challenging ideas from Timothy Keller: The Reason For God: Belief in an Age of Scepticism, p/b, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2009 p xvi f Both religious belief and scepticism are on the rise…surely that should lead to self-examination. The time … Continue reading
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BOOKS READ JANUARY 2020
Andreas Loewe and Katherine Firth; Journeying With Bonhoeffer: Six Steps on the Path of Discipleship, p/b, 127 pages, Sydney, Morning Star Publishing, 2019 2020 is the 75th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s martyrdom in the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria just … Continue reading
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Thoughtful and challenging thoughts from Andreas Loewe and Katherine Firth: Journeying With Bonhoeffer: Six Steps on the Path of Discipleship, p/b, Sydney, Morning Star, 2001
Thoughtful and challenging thoughts from Andreas Loewe and Katherine Firth: Journeying With Bonhoeffer: Six Steps on the Path of Discipleship, p/b, Sydney, Morning Star, 2001 This little book is packed with inspiration. Katherine Firth has written a new biography of … Continue reading
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BOOKS READ DECEMBER 2019
William Styron: Sophie’s Choice, p/b, London, Vintage, 2000 (1979) This is an epic, perhaps overlong novel in many parts. In the first instance it is a novel about the unsuccessful and almost humorous search to lose his virginity by a … Continue reading
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