Faith, Fiction, Friends: Saturday Good Reads

We’ve been watching “All Creatures Great and Small” on PBS. We saw the original series when it aired from 1978 to 1990, but I like the new series better. Ethan Warren at Literary Hub takes a look at the show, and he says it’s about so much more than a charming country vet.

Children usually don’t know that their parents, and even their grandparents, often pray for them. Michel Kelley at Forward Progress prays for his children, and he says there’s one specific thing he prays for each of them. And in these days and times, he makes a good point.

It used to be one of the most common forms of poetry in popular culture, but it’s been a long, long time since those days. Kevin Mims at Quillette asks the question: whatever happened to light verse?

Since 1999, Bradley Birzer has been doing something that may make him one of the bravest people in academia – he’s been teaching the American Civil War. At The Imaginative Conservative, he reflects on all of the many causes of the war.

More Good Reads

Writing and Literature

The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery: A New Online Collection Presents All of the Original Illustrations from Charles Dickens' Novels – Colin Marshall at Open Culture.

Adventures in Reading: Before Austen Comes Aesop: The Children’s Great Books and How to Experience Them by Cheri Blomquist – Elizabeth Corey at First Things Magazine.

Maybe the Book Doesn't Need to Be "Disrupted" in the First Place? – Lincoln Michel at Counter Craft.

The Books That Made My Father – Jeanne Bonner at The Millions.

Let children’s books be children’s books – Nina Welsch at The Critic Magazine.

British Stuff

Some Interdimensional Portals I have Come Across During Walks in the British Countryside – Tom Cox.

Sonnet Prefixed to His Majesty's Instructions to His Dearest Son, Henry the Prince – King James I at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).

Poetry

John Adams in Heaven, from Legends of Liberty – Andrew Benson Brown at Society of Classical Poets.