Mansfield Park falls right in the middle of the six novels written by Austen. It has the same feel and style of her other stories and is just as well written. Fanny Price, the heroine, is all good. She is very unlike Elizabeth Bennett from P & P, less educated and less […]
This novel by Chevalier is a New York Times Bestseller. Even though it was published in 1999, the story is successful at pulling the reader back into the 17th century. Inspired by the famous painting of Vermeer, this fictional story adds layers of beauty and reality to the mysterious face. The artistic […]
2007 Orbis Books. 174 pgs.
I was excited to receive, The Sky is Not a Ceiling, by Aileen O’Donoghue, which was recently published by Orbis Books. The topic of faith and science has been on my mind quite a bit, and having some of the issues presented in a biographical […]
Deus Books, Paulist Press 1964, 72 pgs.
Joseph Kopp does a nice job synthesizing Chardin’s evolutionary philosophy. Chardin was a Jesuit who trained the team that discovered the “Pekin Man” in 1928 (pg. 22). His love for science was not halted by his love for the Church, and it is this dynamic that is […]
What can I say? This book is a mixed bag. It can barely be taken seriously with its comic book illustrations and atheistic agenda driven comments. On the other hand, it is an introduction to a very important issue that needs to be understood. The book never claims to deal with […]
The Bastard is the first of the American Bicentennial Series written by John Jakes in the 1970’s. It is a historical fiction about a french boy who finds out he is the illegitimate son of an English nobleman. After finding impossible barriers to claiming his inheritance in England, he flees to the American […]
Another fun and child-loving story. With all the silliness and humor found in Dahl’s other stories, The Twits is a quick read (75 pages full of illustrations) that held my children’s attention and kept them reacting to all the jocular elements. Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, meanest and ugliest […]