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  • Mere Christianity

    Mere Christianity

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    A Christian friend of mine loaned me her copy of this book, Mere Christianity, by CS Lewis, so this post will be the surrogate to marginalia, since the book a) is not mine and b) has tiny margins. I thought at first that I would just handwrite on sticky notes, but I think it just…

  • So Much Goodness in One Day… Pt 1

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    It’s really hard to get over what simply going outside can do for the soul. I made my way down to Brown (I think Vincent Gallo has a song called that…) to see Michael Pollan lecture about his new book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. I arrived an hour and a half early,…

  • Diet for a New America & Omnivore’s Dilemma

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    Okay, so I just finished Diet for a New America yesterday, fell into a complete depression – and in some sort of sick rationalization process convinced myself to eat a plateful of buffalo wings to drown my guilt. The book is good and very informative if not a little outdated. And what’s to be expected…

  • Night Studio: A Memoir of Phillip Guston by Musa Mayer

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    Night Studio: A memoir of Philip Guston by Musa Mayer This was one of the most interesting ways of telling a memoir that I may have ever read. Musa Mayer is Guston’s daughter and she tells his story through her own story. It’s a portrait of Guston that is unique to Mayer’s experiences of her…