Category: Books
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Books – December 2025
Ekphrasis, Vision, and Persuasion in the Book of Revelation – Robyn J. WhitakerRobyn J. Whitaker demonstrates how a rhetorical analysis of the visions of God in the Book of Revelation reveals the persuasive role of the visions of God and the Lamb in John’s argument against cultic images and worship. If you haven’t guessed this…
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Books – November 2025
Dream Count – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche From Stroygraph: Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to…
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List #39: Books I Have on Loan From the Library
The weather today has been awful, so I had to make a mad dash through the rain into and out of the library to drop off my read books and pick up my reserves.
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Books – October 2025
Swords and Crowns and Rings – Ruth Park From Storygraph: Jackie Hanna, born with dwarfism, and Cushie Moy, the girl next door, share an innocent love–a love that will be censured, but will persevere. This is the story of the triumph of a special kind of courage.Ruth Park’s Miles Franklin-winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in…
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Books – September 2025
Books Read: 4Pages Read: 1735 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino From Storygraph: At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she…
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Books: August 2025
Damascus Station – David McCloskey From Storygraph: A CIA officer and his recruit arrive in Damascus to hunt for a killer CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges Haddad’s recruitment and creates unspeakable danger when they enter…
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Friday Thoughts #21
Each year the NGV puts on a special Winter Masterpieces Exhibition. I went to The Picasso Century in 2022 and last year I went to Pharoah. Yesterday I took myself off the the city for this year’s exhibition—French Impressionism: From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This was actually one that we had plans to…
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Books: July 2025
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore When we are away for more than a few weeks I need to make sure I have a stash of non-library books to read. This was one I gave my daughter for Christmas and she lent it back to me to read—always buy loved ones books you…
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List #29: some things I’ve Been Reading
I do try to round up the books I finish reading each month, but there are some books that I read over months/years. Some are the type of books that need to be read one page at a time, poetry springs to mind. Others are dense with short chapters that I pick up for a…
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Books: June 2025
Happiness Falls – Angie Kim From Storygraph: Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything—which is why she isn’t initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don’t return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the…