L chose a denomination-specific book for her pick in December in my friends’ book club. For those of you not in the know, I am a Seventh-day Adventist, which is a Protestant faith based in the Millerite movement of the 1830s and 40s. We are categorized as Evangelical rather than Fundamentalist, though we as an organization officially maintain a steady political neutrality (though there are certainly plenty within my local congregation who drink deeply of the Trumpian well, to my immense disappointment). George Knight is […]
A fun book about pirates from a feminist angle
The Chancellor and I have an annual tradition: Renaissance Faire about an hour away from our house. We cross state lines, but it’s a fun journey. Because we’ve done this for several years in our marriage, we’ve grown accustomed to a certain routine and highlights of the Faire: alongside fun food, we like to shop at independent vendors’ stands for games and books. The bookstore this year had a bunch of interesting selections, and I was torn between a few. The Chancellor went with Neil […]
A moving novel that was a CBR Book Exchange present
I really like Siri Hustvedt as a novelist. I started with A Summer without Men and moved to The Blazing World, which was just incredible. What I Loved is one of her most famous, and I was eager to read that. Last year, crystalclear got me this book, and I was happy to put it on my TBR shelf. Now that I have read it, I can get to the review! Hooray! Hustvedt writes from a male protagonist’s perspective this time. Leo is an academic […]
An interesting, if repetitive, Harry Potter literary analysis
When I was doing my Master’s degree, I was briefly doing research with one of my professors surrounding the Harry Potter books. While it ultimately didn’t come to fruition, I picked up several interesting books in context to the series. One was John Granger’s The Deathly Hallows Lectures, which focus solely on the end of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I was looking forward to reading this, because a bunch of the other Harry Potter critical theory books were published in the […]