The first Wednesday of each month brings #OpenBook, a blog linkup co-hosted by My Scribbler’s Heart and CatholicMom.com with a roundup of what participating bloggers have been reading lately. The recent feast of St. Edmund Campion prompted me to pick up Evelyn Waugh’s Campion biography for the first time in many years. I raved about the bookContinue reading “Open Book: an assortment of biographies”
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Open Book: an anthology of remembrances
The first Wednesday of each month brings #OpenBook, a blog linkup co-hosted by My Scribbler’s Heart and CatholicMom.com with a roundup of what participating bloggers have been reading lately. Best reading of the past month for me: A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century, a collection of eulogies written by William F. Buckley, edited byContinue reading “Open Book: an anthology of remembrances”
Open Book: choice nonfiction and some NH history
The first Wednesday of each month brings #OpenBook, a blog linkup co-hosted by My Scribbler’s Heart and CatholicMom.com with a roundup of what participating bloggers have been reading lately. Theodore Rex was as good as its early chapters promised. I’m impatiently waiting for a copy of Colonel Roosevelt, volume three of this Theodore Roosevelt biography writtenContinue reading “Open Book: choice nonfiction and some NH history”