Posts tagged ‘Tolkien’

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• CHARLES WILLIAMS IN PAPERBACK – Grevel Lindop 23 October 2017
  Grevel Lindop, who has recently written a biography of Charles Williams, notes in his blog the good news that a paperback version is now available. I’ve just received the first paperback copies of Charles Williams: The Third Inkling. Very exciting. Pleasant too for readers, because they can now get the book for a sensible, indeed […]
• Monsters and horror 4 October 2017
  It by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve just reading It for the second time. I gave it four stars the first time and still give it four stars now. I first read it over 20 years ago, so there were some bits I had forgotten. After the second reading I felt […]
• Stephen King is 70 21 September 2017
  Stephen King was born on 21 September 1947, and has been writing for about 60 years. I certainly haven’t read everything he wrote, but his 70th birthday seems a good time to reflect on some of his writing that I have read. Two things that strike me about his writing is the variety of genres […]
• DON’T LOOK FOR SPACE ALIENS IN CRUCIFIXION ICONS 20 September 2017
  Originally posted on ICONS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION: It is almost too ridiculous to mention, but some Internet sites actually use this image, from the Serbian Vysoki Decani Monastery, as “proof” of early visitations by aliens from space.  They tell the gullible that the two odd figures at far upper left and right are “flying saucers”…
• Reflections of Graham Greene 16 September 2017
  The Reflections: 1923-1988 by Graham Greene My rating: 5 of 5 stars There are three 20th-century authors that I have thought peculiarly Christian. They are G.K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, and Graham Greene. There are several others that I consider ordinarily Christian, like Dorothy Sayers, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien and a few more. But […]