It’s that time of the year for retrospection. After posting my Top Ten Songs of 2019, I thought that a list of my favorite reading material would be good. Reading seemed to be a bigger focus for 2019 than it was … Continue reading
My second Christmas Break book this year was Raymond Carver’s collection of short stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. I love short-form fiction, even though I don’t actually take the time to read it more than once or … Continue reading
I just finished reading Jonathan Raban’s book, Bad Land: An American Romance. I plucked it from the shelf at my local library, without any pretext, purely on a whim, and I ended up reading all 320 pages in less than a week … Continue reading
I just finished reading Celeste Ng’s book, Little Fires Everywhere. It was recommended to me by multiple sources. First (and most-directly), my friend Jason recommended it to me. Our mutual friend Stephanie was indirectly involved as the one who originally recommended the … Continue reading
We’re only a week away from the start of Advent! As we’ve done in previous years, the Staff and members of H2O Kent (including yours truly) have worked together to write, design, and distribute a new series of reflections on … Continue reading
I feel like my lifetime has given me an interesting vantage point on issues of education, popular culture, and technology. I remember a primitive sort of coding that I used to make our family’s Commodore 64 mimic the sound of … Continue reading
I recently finished reading David Sedaris’s book, Calypso. It’s a collection of short stories and essays from an author I’ve been reading for several years. I read his stuff because he’s funny. And often surprisingly insightful. I’m happy to say that this … Continue reading
I recently finished reading Alfred Lansing’s book, Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage. The book was written 60 years ago, and it’s the story of an expedition that took place over 100 years ago — still, I found the narrative to be highly engaging … Continue reading
I recently finished reading Ian McEwan’s book, Amsterdam. And in all honesty, I have to say that it was pretty disappointing. I can’t really recommend the book to anyone else, but I’ve made it a goal to catalog this year’s reading … Continue reading
I recently finished reading Brett McCracken’s book, Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community. Our church made this required reading for our Life Group leaders this year, and we slowly worked our way through it, week by week, … Continue reading