Worthwhile Books

What if saving the planet goes beyond recycling, shouting slogans and waving placards? What if saving the planet means dying so that others ...

My reading was limited, but rich, this month. I finished Volume 8 of John Wesley's Works (mostly correspondence), which I enjoyed. One o...

I've been in a reading slump. This is partly due to my heavy schedule that hasn't allowed for the mental leisure to "get lost i...

One especially poignant and influential character in Elizabeth Goudge's novel The White Witch is Parson Hawthyn. He lives in extreme po...

In my last post , I shared details of reading The Iliad , and of being pleasantly surprised with its accessibility. In this post I want to a...

I was challenged by Don Beck in his Substack to tackle some of the classics I’ve been putting off for years. So, I took a deep breath and p...

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a politician and author who is most widely remembered for his Richard Hannay series of novels . In his autobiogr...