Category: Books (page 6)

The Short Day Dying is a strange book. It presents itself as a first person memoir from a year in…

I read this right to the last of it’s 1000+ pages and wondered why. I just didn’t get it. The…

How many people do you have in your head? Think about it now. Think family. Think friends. Think work colleagues.…

I’m sitting in a Tully’€™s Coffee House in Kirkland across the bay from Seattle and in the near distance I…

The new thing that God did in the incarnation of Jesus defied all previous categories. An enfleshed God didn’t fit…

  waiting and arriving    Originally uploaded by Sunneschii. Chapter 2 of Kester Brewin’s book is titled ‘Advent’ and draws…

I’m coming to Kester Brewin’s ‘The Complex Christ’ a little later than the cool kids but better I do it…

(warning – you may consider some things in this piece to be spoilers) A map, a key and a horse.…

Reading the Book Reviews section of the Irish Times Weekend Review on Saturday and came across review of JG Ballard’s…

I’ve been a fan of Annie Dillard’s writing for many years now and, if I was forced, I would probably…