Something about winter makes my To Be Read list grow by leaps and bounds. Despite being an avid hiker, I was unwilling to go outside during a recent record-setting cold snap. I used the time to dive into some of the books that have been waiting patiently for me. At last year’s Catholic Writers GuildContinue reading “Open Book: the overflowing bookshelf”
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Open Book: Waugh on Campion
This post appeared on the blog in a slightly different version in December 2016. Evelyn Waugh, better known for his fiction, turned his hand to biography to celebrate St. Edmund Campion, Jesuit priest and English Elizabethan martyr. Waugh wrote in the Preface to 1935’s Saint Edmund Campion that he was not attempting a scholar’s approach to hisContinue reading “Open Book: Waugh on Campion”
Open Book: a spiritual biography
The first week 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. Not long ago, I was in Boston for a program on Catholic education. Among the speakers was Paul Elie of Georgetown University, of whom I hadn’t heard until thatContinue reading “Open Book: a spiritual biography”
Ellen Kolb 