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Review Date: 4/4/2007
Well-written with interesting secondary characters.
Review Date: 1/31/2007
Interesting characters and good dialogue, with a few unexpected plot turns, makes Ms. Huntington's book--what might initially seem an often-seen plotline--one of my favourite Regency reads.
Look for it's sequel, THE HERO'S HOMECOMING also.
Look for it's sequel, THE HERO'S HOMECOMING also.
Review Date: 2/1/2007
One of my all-time favourite (romance) novel ever!
Set in late-Victorian Tunbridge Wells, Ms. Glover's novel follows the heroine, Catherine March, as she matures from a young orphaned girl, who marries a much older man. Throughout the course of the novel, Catherine searches for love--and more importantly, herself.
Well-written, but much slower paced than more recent novels, the novel also seems potentially more "authentic" to the era, in what happens to the heroine.
Set in late-Victorian Tunbridge Wells, Ms. Glover's novel follows the heroine, Catherine March, as she matures from a young orphaned girl, who marries a much older man. Throughout the course of the novel, Catherine searches for love--and more importantly, herself.
Well-written, but much slower paced than more recent novels, the novel also seems potentially more "authentic" to the era, in what happens to the heroine.
Review Date: 2/1/2007
Ms. Sayers, who after years of writing Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, went on to learn Italian to translate Dante's _La Divina Commedia_, interacts with what she considers one of the fundamental theological issues in Christian theology: "imago dei." What does it mean to be created "in the image of God"? Throughout her book, she considers the issue, showing that the answer, is indeed, perhaps essential to humanity, but not necessarily in the manner often assumed.
Along with George Steiner (_Real Prescences_) and Madeleine L'Engle, Sayers interacts with questions of "sacred" in Creation, and art in secular and sacred schemas.
Along with George Steiner (_Real Prescences_) and Madeleine L'Engle, Sayers interacts with questions of "sacred" in Creation, and art in secular and sacred schemas.
Review Date: 2/1/2007
In Real Prescences, George Steiner examines the manifestations of the "sacred" throughout the canon of Western Art. He considers how the concept of "art" and "sacredness" fit within a Christiam schemata. Unlike other authors, Steiner, does not give easy, facile answers, but interacts deeply and meaingfully with some of the greatest thinkers and artist in Western philosophy, history, and art.
Along with Steiner's book, Madeleine L'Engle's _Walking on Water_ and Dorothy L. Sayer's _The Mind of the Maker_ should be considered essential reads.
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Along with Steiner's book, Madeleine L'Engle's _Walking on Water_ and Dorothy L. Sayer's _The Mind of the Maker_ should be considered essential reads.
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Review Date: 2/1/2007
In Real Prescences, George Steiner examines the manifestations of the "sacred" throughout the canon of Western Art. He considers how the concept of "art" and "sacredness" fit within a Christiam schemata. Unlike other authors, Steiner, does not give easy, facile answers, but interacts deeply and meaingfully with some of the greatest thinkers and artist in Western philosophy, history, and art.
Along with Steiner's book, Madeleine L'Engle's _Walking on Water_ and Dorothy L. Sayer's _The Mind of the Maker_ should be considered essential reads.
Along with Steiner's book, Madeleine L'Engle's _Walking on Water_ and Dorothy L. Sayer's _The Mind of the Maker_ should be considered essential reads.
Review Date: 11/16/2007
This book it related to Catherine Blair's THE HERO RETURNS. It is set two years later. Jack (the hero in VISCOUNT FOR CHRISTMAS) is the brother of the heroine (Amelia) from the earlier book. While I enjoyed enjoyed both, the earlier book is perhaps the better of the two, with more believable characters.
Review Date: 2/1/2007
Helpful Score: 1
Ms. L'Engle, more famous for her children's books, such as _A Wrinkle in Time_, focuses on the often vexing issues of sacred and secular art in _Walking on Water_. "There is nothing so secular, that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation," she writes. She explores these fine boundaries, the nature of divine revelation, and how one interacts with art, both in sacred and secular manners.
Along with her book, George Steiner's _Real Prescences_, Dorothy L. Sayer's _Mind of the Maker_ and Flannery O'Connor's _Mystery and Manners_ are all excellent books that concern themselves with questions of faith, art, and creation within a Christian schemata.
Along with her book, George Steiner's _Real Prescences_, Dorothy L. Sayer's _Mind of the Maker_ and Flannery O'Connor's _Mystery and Manners_ are all excellent books that concern themselves with questions of faith, art, and creation within a Christian schemata.
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