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I watched the excellent John Adams miniseries on HBO when it was first aired a few months ago, and it led me to want to read the book it was based on, by David McCullough. It also created a desire to learn more about — and therefore find a good biography for — Alexander Hamilton. [...]
This is a quick one. I bought a Kindle in late July, and immediately fell in love with it. It is light, very easy to use and to read, and buying content is almost too easy — you really have to exercise impulse control. One feature that isn’t exactly a secret but that does not [...]
The movie Prince Caspian has gotten lukewarm reviews for the most part, but my daughter and I very much enjoyed it. Reading the reviews, I get the sense that many people decided in advance that they wouldn’t like it. Either they do not much like fantasy, or Christian fiction, or they are serious Christians who [...]
This is another one of my favorite quotes, this time from C.S. Lewis: God sent the human race what I call good dreams: I mean those queer stories scattered all through the heathen religions about a god who dies and comes to life again and, by his death, has somehow given new life to men. [...]
I recently finished reading The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, by Paul Malmont. It is a novel that recalls the pulp fiction from the 1930s, a form of mass entertainment that probably occupied the space that comic books later came to fill. The novel evokes that era, and that fiction, in two ways. The novel itself [...]
A few years ago I came upon a wonderful Chesterton quote at Stuart Buck’s site. As he notes, it appears almost nowhere on the internet. I’m putting it here, really just in case Mr. Buck ever takes down his site: The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic, chap. 4 (1929). In the matter of reforming [...]
