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reviewed Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

Charlotte Wood: Stone Yard Devotional (2024, Hodder & Stoughton)

Outstanding

While I recommend this book to anyone, potential readers should know it spends a lot of time adjacent to Catholic practices and explores the relevance of concepts (especially forgiveness) traditionally found in Christian theology for contemporary life. It explores what it means to lead a spiritual life, or a life of devotion, but doesn't necessarily evangelize for Christianity per se. You could argue that Christianity is only the vehicle for that narrative.

reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)

Ada Palmer: Too Like the Lightning (Hardcover, 2016, Tor Books)

"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our …

Lecturing

I surprised myself as a former academic how little time I had for this books lecture-like detours. Palmer's informational tangents on historic European personages out of the 18th century began to grate. Then there was the (granted, imaginative) construction of a future society that basically was a compare & contrast of that time. Is it fun think up a hybrid scifi that incorporates something new with your research? Sure, for a time. I found my patience ran thin quickly. It's an achievement nonetheless.