Worthwhile Books

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...

I've dipped into Kindle Unlimited whenever I could get a good deal, and have had mixed feelings as you can tell from  this post , and th...

According to Alan Jacobs, as our society becomes more and more immersed in digital realities, we are losing our personal density.  He wrote ...

In a recent post I talked about the “100 Books with Dante” method of tackling daunting classics by reading short chunks each day with a kno...