I noted yesterday how much British
writing I’ve been reading. Interestingly enough, all of the works I’ve selected
for the “not recommended list” are by American authors. But seven of the 12
listed under non-fiction are British, with two of those seven books being about
Charles Dickens.
I’ve been thinking about (but not
yet decided) about reading and writing about Dickens life and works next year.
I’ve read quite a few of his novels, but by no means all of them. In September
and October, when we spent four weeks in London, I took one morning and visited
the Charles Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street, the place where he wrote The
Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist. It was my second visit,
and for whatever reason I find the building and its rooms, furnished much like
they would have been in 1837-1839 when he and his family lived there, to be
inspirational. We’ll see if I follow through on the plan.
This concludes my “books I’m not
recommending for Christmas” for this year.
Faith
Plus or Minus:
Keeping Your Life, Faith and Love Together Through Infertility by Matt and Cheri Appling.
So Many Christians,
So Few Lions: Is There Christianophobia in the United States by George
Yancey and David Williamson.
On Becoming
Generative: An Introduction to Culture Care by Makoto Fujimura.
Pray, Write, Grow:
Cultivating Prayer and Writing Together, First Draft Father:
A Write-from-Home Dad Finds the Joy/Anxiety/Exhaustion/Wonder of Parenting and
Write Without
Crushing Your Soul: Sustainable Publishing and Freelancing by Ed Cyzewski.
The Soroti Project: A Heart-Filled and Heartless Story in Uganda by Joanne Norton.
The Soroti Project: A Heart-Filled and Heartless Story in Uganda by Joanne Norton.
Every Little Thing:
Making a World of Difference Right Where You Are by Deidra Riggs.
Behold the Beauty:
An Invitation to Bible Reading by
Monica Sharman.
Love Expressed by Tristan Sherwin.
Love Expressed by Tristan Sherwin.
Non-Fiction
Coming Out Christian
in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire by Douglas Boin.
The First World War
Galleries
by Paul Cornish.
J.M.W. Turner:
Painting Set Free edited by David Blayney Brown, Amy Concannon
and Sam Smiles.
Rich Mullins: A
Devotional Biography: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven by James Bryant Smith.
Road to Valor: A
True Story of World War II Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a
Nation by Aili and
Andres McConnon.
London Under by Peter Ackroyd.
The Great Charles
Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater.
A Guide to Dickens’ London by Daniel Tyler.
On Glasgow and Edinburgh by
Robert Crawford.
Illustration: Drawing of Charles Dickens
at his writing desk at Gad’s Hill in Kent, his last home.
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