I Must Betray You
“His words still haunt me. ‘You’re Cristian Florescu and I know what you’ve done.’”
July Reading Recap
7 books I read this month!
The Language of Rivers and Stars
“Nature gave the word ‘glory’ a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.” —C.S. Lewis
Gone Dark
“This wasn’t a rescue mission anymore. It was a crime scene.”
Photograph
“That’s why my mother is dead. It started with a photograph.”
Art and Faith
“Let us reclaim creativity and imagination as essential, central, and necessary parts of our faith journey. Imagination is a gift given to us by the Creator to steward, a gift that no other creature under heaven and earth has been given.”
First Love, Second Draft
“There were only two ways this forced reunion of theirs could end— a passionate reconciliation that led to the renewal of their vows… or a double homicide.”
The Kill Artist
“As always he was struck by the similarities between the craft of restoration and the craft of killing. The methodology was precisely the same: study the target, become like him, do the job, slip away without a trace.”
The Last Murder at the End of the World
“Sometimes the only way to win the game is to let the pieces think they’re the ones playing it.”
June Reading Recap
8 books I read this month— a lot of short ones…
Sunrise on the Reaping
“That’s part of our trouble. Thinking things are inevitable. Not believing change is possible.”
Save Me an Orange
I don’t know what makes good poetry, but this book made me think about it…
The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God
“The love of God in our culture has been purged of anything the culture finds uncomfortable. The love of God has been sanitized, democratized, and above all sentimentalized.”
Rift
“There’s a lot of history here in the region, and where there’s a lot of history somewhere, you can be sure you’ll find a lot of tragedy. And where there’s a lot of tragedy, there always seem to be a lot of ghosts— or at least stories about them.”
The Nicene Creed
The 1700 year anniversary of Christianity’s first official creed: how did it come to be, what does it mean, and why does it matter?
No Time to Be Dumb
“You can’t afford the time that stupid sin will take. There is no time to have the dumb years… The longer you stretch things out, the more of your life you are wasting.”
Big Dumb Eyes
Riveting.
The Wilde Trials
“When I left Rio, I thought I was leaving behind the biggest challenge of my life. I had no idea that the next two years would be even harder. And to reach joy, I had to go through trials too big for me to face on my own.”
May Reading Recap
8 books I read this month!
Wild Things
“They need to see that there are many ways to be brave; many ways to be caring and compassionate; many ways to be adventurous and creative; many ways to be strong.”