The Woman Who Was Chesterton

Who is not aware of the giant that was G.K. Chesterton? Even if we post-moderns haven’t read much or any of his brilliant writings, knowledge of the “Apostle of Common Sense” (a term used by Dale Ahlquist in a definitive Chesterton biography by that name) is inescapable. Chesterton was a lion for truth, and his…

To Say Nothing of the Dog

To Say Nothing of the Dog is pure delight. Connie Willis’s writing is elegant and refined. But it is also deeply informed by theatre and movies. And so what we have is a very witty, entertaining, and creative story that whisks the reader out of reality and into a delightful comedic drama that could only be set in the Victorian English Countryside. Equal parts ridiculous and brilliant, I have enjoyed reading again and again over the years. 

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Welcome to Plumfield and Paideia What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. –C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves We are sisters in Christ who became friends over a shared love of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, found especially in good and great books. Our primary vocation is that of…

Show Notes: Meet Living Book Press

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The Borrowed House

“[Hilda van Stockum] says, ‘It is light that creates beauty in nature. Without light we can’t see, and all form is lost, whereas the most common and despised objects can be made beautiful by the light that plays on them. You don’t have to paint heroic scenes or idealized goddesses . . . a common…

Welcome to Plumfield and Paideia

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. – C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves We are sisters in Christ who became friends over a shared love of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, found especially in good and great books. Our primary vocation is that of marriage and motherhood, but…

Books About Books

For Younger Readers Library LionMiss Moore Thought Otherwise About Illuminated Manuscripts Magic in the MarginsThe Ink Garden of Brother TheophaneMarguerite Makes a BookAcross a Dark and Wild SeaBrother Hugo and the BearThe Sailor Who Captured the Sea For Grown Up Readers 84 Charing Cross RoadA Jane Austen EducationGuernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyThe Pleasures…