by GK Chesterton This book is a collection of about 44 essays on subjects ranging from the common man to necromancy to...
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Perhaps Sliced Bread Isn’t the Best Thing
“It’s the best thing since sliced...
Book Review: The Vikings
by: Elizabeth Janeway This was a pretty good book. I read it aloud to my 4th grader for his history and I...
From The Habit of Being
"...everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny..."
I Am an Extrovert When I Am Running
I always run from social situations and so I found it odd that I am so social while running. As I waved and yelled out “Good Morning” to the neighbor lady across the street whom I run past while...
From Charles Dickens
"No pleasures like the pleasures of the poor."
Saint Isaac and the Indians
by Milton Lomask This book was about one of the North American martyrs Saint Isaac Jogues. He was a Jesuit that journeyed from France to Quebec in hopes of bringing Christ to the natives of North America. The Hurons agreed to let him live amongst them, so he traveled...
From The Catholic Church and Conversion
...they feel a tug towards it.
Emma
by Jane Austen While trying to decide what to read next, I came across the trivia tidbit that the movie Clueless was based on Jane Austen's Emma. I'm not at all embarrassed to admit that – coming of age in the 90's – I loved the movie Clueless. I am also not at all...
From Charles Dickens
... makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary.
From the Wartime Prayer Book
... for all men.
The Man Who Was Thursday vs. The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Exercise in Literature
At the beginning of the summer, I came down with some sort of virus that made me ill for about a day or two and then feeling much better but drained of all energy in the subsequent week and a...