Cannonball Read 18

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First mixed bag of the year!

Love Story by Erich Segal

In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner

Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

Masscult and Midcult by Dwight Macdonald

Running Dog by Don Delillo

Chronicle in Stone by Ismael Kadare

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowksi

Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

War in Val D'orcia by Iris Origo

Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg by Joshua Chamberlain

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Love Story – 2/5 What do you say about a 50 year novel that feels dead on arrival? This is the novel that became the movie that is often referenced, and seldom watched. The novel is fine. It’s depressingly fine. Our narrator goes to Harvard, meets a girl, they get married, he goes to law school, she gets sick, and she dies. In the middle he loves her father, because he hates his father. His parents mildly but not so mildly disown him (lucky), and […]

For all y’all hippie monks

New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

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This book has been on my shelf for years. Since we’ve been home more than a month and I have the spiritual space to sit down with this kind of dense nourishment, I finally took the plunge and fully engaged with Thomas Merton. He’s something of a legend to Christian contemplatives, sort of like the Keith Richards of monks. Wise, somewhat cantankerous, expansive and global in his conception of God, God’s purpose, and destiny of people. A hippie monk. In New Seeds of Contemplation, Merton […]



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