Category: Bookish Thoughts
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Bookish Pairs: The Catcher in the Rye and The Fall
This year I’ve been making a concerted effort to read more classics. And the other week, I happened, quite unintentionally, to read J.D. Salinger’s much loved-and-loathed The Catcher in the Rye (1951) and Albert Camus’ existentialist classic The Fall (published in French in 1956 as La Chute, and published in English translation the following year)…
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Bookish Thoughts: On Reading Classics
As 2022 was winding down, I found myself in a plight shared by many readers. It’s a bookish version of the ‘tyranny of the immediate.’ Namely I found myself reading almost exclusively new or recent releases. This is the problem with being present in the bookish world. Seeking out reviews, blogs, podcasts, and social media…
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Bookish Thoughts: Can My Anti-Wheelhouse Be My Wheelhouse?
It was the physicist Niels Bohr who famously wrote: “The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.” It’s an insight that has become a core belief of mine. (If you’re at all interested in this, you can check out my theology blog.) I was thinking…
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