Worthwhile Books

My last post was about how fairy tales prepared G.K. Chesterton's heart to recieve the gospel. Here is one of the choice quotes:  Cinder...

G.K. Chesterton is one of the great thinkers of the 20 th century, but sometimes his brilliance can be blinding, and I struggle to grasp hi...

Green DolphinStreet is the story of two sisters who live in the Channel Islands in the mid-1800s. Marguerite and Marianne couldn’t be more ...

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a journalist, novelist and literary critic, who is most remembered for the twelve volumes of fairy tales that he...

What if you were accused of a crime that you did not commit when the accuser had all the evidence against you, and you had nothing to prove ...

My greatest challenge in reviewing this 500-page book (600 if you count the endnotes) is knowing what quotations to leave out since the whol...

BBC period dramas and classic black-and-white films are my entertainment of choice, but it has taken me a few years to learn to appreciate J...