Category: book
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My Year With Books (And Burnout)
Back in August, a friend gave me a copy of Percival Everett’s recently published novel, James, in which the author retells Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the vantage point of the enslaved Jim. Early in the book, as James is beginning his unlikely attempt to reunite his family, he and Huck stumble onto a robbers’…
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My Year With Books
How long is a year? A few days ago our oldest son counted off the few remaining days until the beginning of a new year and that remaining time seemed both impossibly short and interminably long. We sat around the dinner table that same evening wondering about whether our boys might begin the semester online…
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Deliver Me From Fear of Their Fear
“I’ve made the decision that I would rather be on the journey with others, problematic as they may be, than be utterly alone yet content in my righteousness.” I saw myself when I read this sentence in Justin Phillip’s new book, Know Your Place. Maybe I should say that I saw in Phillip’s commitment one…
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Do You Know Your Trees?
I finished reading a new book about trees on a day this week when the news around the world was once again overwhelming and terrible. In Afghanistan people were trying to escape with a desperation I can barely imagine much less, if I’m honest, consider for more than a few minutes at a time. Then…
David W. Swanson 