![]() I admired Augustine’s questioning God, his profound introspection, and his honest struggles with sin. I read the Confessions as a freshman in college when I was a very lapsed Catholic in search of a way. I know this is true because it changed mine. The spiritual value of reading Augustine’s Confessions The gentleman then suggests a follow up article covering “the spiritual value of reading the Confessions” and some “approaches to reading it.” While I do not think the Confessions is required reading for every faithful person, I do want to take up this reader’s suggestion and offer some guidance for those who do want to read and digest it. Especially, I might add, when there are so many other good spiritual writers out there with more accessible texts. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The time to read and digest the Confessions is a monumental task.” He wonders whether it is worth it for the average Catholic to slog through Augustine. In the comments to my recent CWR article on different translations of the Confessions, a reader related the common experience of trying to read Augustine and giving up. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris Leanne Shapton invites us to contemplate what is truly valuable, and to consider the art we make of our private lives. And a love story, in all its tenderness and struggle, emerges from the evidence that has been left behind, laid out for us to appraise and appreciate. From first meeting to final separation, the progress and rituals of intimacy are revealed through the couple's accumulated relics and memorabilia. Through photographs of the couple's personal effects-the usual auction items (jewellery, fine art, and rare furniture) and the seemingly worthless (pyjamas, Post-it notes, worn paperbacks)-the story of a failed love affair vividly and cleverly emerges. In Leanne Shapton's marvellously inventive and invented auction catalogue, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore and Harold (who aren't real people, but might as well be). Lenore Doolan, a food writer for the New York Times, meets Harold Morris, a photographer, at a halloween party in 2002. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three offers are given, one choices is made-and with it, Mina and Lev's lives are irrevocably altered. Interest? Attraction? Unexplained possessiveness? Whatever the discombobulating feeling was, Lev was determined to give the emancipated, half-dead beauty a chance after he catches her with a wad of his brother's cash clutched in her fist. For once, Lev felt something-something he couldn't quite describe. Instead, head hanging low, she stumbles past a handsome stranger leaning over the bar.and with shaking hands, she steals the wallet dangling half-out of his back pocket.Įver watchful, Lev Leokov notices Mina the moment she steps through his family's clubs' door. Despaired, hungry, homeless, and helpless, Mina Harris succumbs to the desperation of darkness-by shuffling into a strip club with the intent of seducing and taking some rich, drunk man's money. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With series fans in mind, the author takes Harry through a sort of last-day-of-school farewell tour. The news leaves his best friend, narrator “Dougo,” devastated…particularly as Harry doesn’t seem all that fussed about it. ![]() ![]() Having, as Kline notes in her warm valedictory acknowledgements, taken 30 years to get through second and third grade, Harry Spooger is overdue to move on-but not just into fourth grade, it turns out, as his family is moving to another town as soon as the school year ends. 7-10)Ī long-running series reaches its closing chapters. Give this to readers of Cleary and Blume and cross your fingers for more. Energetic and imaginative, Clementine is gifted with understanding and patient parents. Just like her family they will cheer when she comes up with a way to end The Great Pigeon War as well as the temporary rift with her friend. Middle-grade readers will sympathize with Clementine’s conflicted feelings about her friend and her family, and laugh out loud at her impulsive antics, narrated in a fresh first-person voice and illustrated with plenty of humor. In short chapters, set in the city apartment building her father manages or the school where she has some tough days, Clementine relates the events of the trying week she discovered she was the difficult child in her family and thought she was about to be given away. Or maybe she really was just trying to help. Maybe it was because third-grader Clementine was a little bit angry with her best friend Margaret that things got out of hand with the scissors and the permanent markers and the hair. ![]() ![]() ![]() Devil Child ( 悪魔の子, Akuma no Ko ?): Robin and Brook save Sanji from Black Maria and confront the Tobiroppo. Thank you for everything, now and always!!Ĭhapters See also the associated category: Volume 100. May I use the milestone of the 100th volume to express my appreciation to them? If I didn't have these bright guardian spirits around, I can tell you that I'd have collapsed long ago!! ![]() I'm the one who gets all the glory, but when you're in the vicinity of a famous person, there are lots of bad things that happen too. "I caught a cold." "Hey, that's not a cold!!" Off to check in at the hospital!! "I'm so exhausted." "Get in!!" Car drives off!! Arrive at the hot spring!! I'm sorry if anyone says anything to you at school."īig guardian: "Cheer up!!" A bunch of delicious food appears!! "It sounds like there are some upset people online. ![]() Ace and Yamato in the background, and Sanji and Roronoa Zoro in the foreground. The cover is of a rainbow pattern, with the title logo colored in a rainbow pattern continuing from the previous volume's pattern. ![]() The cover is the second of three volume covers to celebrate the 100th volume. The illustration on page 3 of Volume 100. ![]() ![]() "I’m beyond excited we’re finally bringing Echolands to everyone, and incredibly stoked to be reunited with longtime creative partners Haden, Dave, and Todd, for what is a vast challenging world building project unlike any other we’ve attempted before," said Williams III. Williams III as it looked when leaving his work studio. Each issue of the series will offer a Raw Cut edition, featuring the art from J.H. The new series will present a sprawling, eye-popping tale and feature lush, career-defining artwork and a mesmerizing story in a unique landscape format. This long awaited comic book event from the multiple award winning Batwoman creative team will launch from Image Comics in August and push the boundaries of storytelling to its limits. Haden Blackman ( Star Wars, Elektra), colorist Dave Stewart, and letterer Todd Klein. ![]() Williams III ( Promethea, The Sandman: Overture, Batman), W. Yesterday The Hollywood Reporter revealed an exclusive first look at covers and interior artwork from the eagerly anticipated Echolands series by J.H. ![]() ![]() This story of Collins' four-year surgical residency traces his rise from an eager but clueless first-year resident to accomplished Chief Resident in his final year. All too soon, the euphoria of beginning his career as an orthopedic resident gives way to the feeling he is a counterfeit, an imposter who has infiltrated a society of brilliant surgeons. But compared to his fellow residents Collins feels inadequate and unprepared. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. ![]() ![]() When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bound to the road and at the mercy of whomever will give him a ride, he encounters people who reflect the rapidly changing world around him. He suffers from a strange, seemingly incurable disease: immortality. Israeli-American cartoonist Koren Shadmi ( Love Addict, The Abaddon) turns to science fiction in a sprawling, ambitious journey across time and space.įorever on the move, Highwayman travels through the vastness of North America searching for the source of his condition. and the art is just stunning." - Comic News Insider ![]() the best sort of science fiction." - Comics Beat "Shadmi skillfully mixes together sweeping kind of mystical scientism with an on-the-ground epic of personal journey. ![]() “Shadmi intrigues with his mysteries and his evocative skill, asking more questions than he answers.” - BoDoï “A bewitching and fascinating roadtrip… with impeccable writing and narration.” - Planete BD ![]() ![]() ![]() Which, when you first heard it, was simply stunning. Our story begins, logically enough, with that title song. Even if it didn’t seem like the work of that same crazed, wordy wild man we’d fallen for in 1973. ![]() And over time, despite the occasional carping, we realized this was one epic piece of art. It took us a while to get used to the cleaner sound, more conventional song structures, lines that made linear sense. For the converted, however, things were a bit more complicated. Which, corporately-speaking, was this brilliant, but low-selling artist’s last chance to break through to a national audience. Regardless, 40 years ago, Bruce Springsteen released Born To Run. ![]() ![]() Some of the big issues in this book-race, warfare, Eastern religions-are pretty familiar to anyone who knows a little bit about the Sixties.Įven though Lathe of Heaven is not as popular as Le Guin's Earthsea or Hanish Cycle, it's probably her most famous work outside of those series. It comes out of an era defined by civil-rights issues, Vietnam War protests, and a generation of hippies. The plot of the novel was probably influenced by its historical context. Not exactly the awesome free pass you expected, huh? George's dreams end up changing reality more times than we can count they even indirectly lead to the end of the world. Le Guin explores just what would happen if someone who can change the world with his dreams-like George Orr-fell into the hands of someone as power-hungry as Dr. The Lathe of Heaven appeared 1971, and in it Ursula K. Well, now you understand why it sucks to be George Orr. ![]() ![]() ![]() So far, so good.īut now imagine that you can't control it: your dreams never quite turn out the way you want them to, and sometimes you even end up killing people. Sounds sweet, right? You'd make the world a better place, end suffering, and get a little bit of the good life for yourself while you're at it. Imagine you could change reality with your dreams. ![]() |