The first week of each month brings Open Book, 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 untilContinue reading “Open Book: “The Life You Save May Be Your Own: an American Pilgrimage””
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Open Book: Jacques Maritain, Theodore Roosevelt, & Allen V. Koop
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: Jacques Maritain, Theodore Roosevelt, & Allen V. Koop”
Banned Books Week: thanks, but I’ll pass
It’s “Banned Books Week.” The American Library Association rolls out this observance every year to “highlight…the value of free and open access to information” and “draw… national attention to the harms of censorship.” As an American who prizes the First Amendment and who writes and reads what she pleases, I suppose I should be allContinue reading “Banned Books Week: thanks, but I’ll pass”
Ellen Kolb 