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Spiritual but Not Religious by Robert C. Fuller
Have I told you guys about the second and last time I ever went to confession? The first of course, was when I made more first reconciliation in 4th grade. The second time, I was in 10th grade, on a field trip to Washington D.C. We were visiting the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and I felt like going to confession.
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I really wanted to love this book. But I just couldn’t. It needs a couple of more drafts before really getting there.
I’m a bit behind in reviews…for instance, I read this one some time last month. Part of this is procrastination on my part. But part of this is also that I wanted to let it digest in my brain.
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler was…a decent story just adequately written.
It’s possible that Jane Austen’s wit is at its height in Northanger Abbey. Those biting little sentences that describe characters, and their quips to one another ring throughout the walls of bath and the great house Northanger Abbey.
I give this three DVD set a solid meh. I espied it at the library and thought I’d give it a whirl for the Everything Austen Challenge. Having watched all 180 minutes of it last night, I want at least 120 of those minutes back.
The Country of the Pointed Firs, written in the 1890’s, captures the customs and dialects that were dying out in Maine at the time. Sarah Orne Jewett tried to preserve as much as she could in her fiction before it was forgotten.
This is one of those books where nobody will ever know if it’s really a ghost story or if the narrator is nuts. Certainly, there seem to be two strictly divided camps in the world of literary criticism.
Last week I watched Becoming Jane for Stephanie’s Everything Austen Challenge. I’ll be totally candid in saying that if it weren’t for this challenge, I probably wouldn’t have watched it.
I convinced myself to do this challenge for three reasons: