What books, if any are you reading, or have you read in the past year

Ransom said:
Not exactly. He leaned Unitarian sometimes because he had doubts about the Trinity, supposedly. But he believed firmly in Jesus's miracles and the Resurrection--the very things Jefferson cut out of his Bible.

Thomas Jefferson was a confirmed skeptic, but I prefer to think of Charles Dickens as a sincere believer, albeit a latitudinarian ("big-tent") Anglican with some weak theological leanings. Nothing too unusual for the Victorian era.

Charles Spurgeon and Dickens were contemporaries, about 20 years apart in age. loved Dickens's novels and owned a complete set, though he was critical of Dickens's portrayal of religious figures in his stories (Dickens was a nominal Anglican but opposed to organized religion, and didn't like Nonconformists, of which the Baptist Spurgeon was one, or the evangelical "Low Church" wing of the C. of E.). But they had common ground in their concern for the poor and other social issues.
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Think Spurgeon would had been much closer to what a Christian should hold to and believe in though
 
i am way behind in my intended reading.... but since i had a ton of down time recently - with nothing else i could do- i started trying to get through several douglas preston - lincoln child books that have been stacking up... . but got sidetracked playing legend of zelda windwaker instead ..... it;s the only legend of zelda game so far, i have not been able to complete... ..kinda sad since it came out over 20 years ago.....:cautious: . ...sadder still i didn;t complete it this time either... :rolleyes:...... i;m thinking about breaking down and busting out the game guide i have on it and just cheating to win it..... did that one time before with another video game... and didn;t feel good about it.... ...it;s much better and more rewarding to play the game the hard way and think your way through it.... but this game is known to this day as one of the hardest of all the legend of zelda series.....

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Books in April:

The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O'Neill
All for Love, John Dryden
Mosquitoes, William Faulkner
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
The Playboy of the Western World, J. M. Synge

Still on the nightstand: The Reverse of the Medal, Patrick O'Brian

Slow month. I generally try to read a novel a week plus a play on Saturdays. It takes no effort to do a drama--maybe an hour over breakfast and coffee--but I guess the novels were a bit of a slog this month. Mosquitoes was all right (better than Soldier's Pay in any case), but still slow going.
 
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