news, views & reviews
Posted in Classics, Mystery/Detective on Feb 18th, 2007
As I write this, the Catholic diocese of Spokane, (like my own Archdiocese of Portland, OR) is going through bankruptcy proceedings brought on by sex abuse cases. I don’t know what the Portland numbers are, but in Spokane, according to this Catholic News Agency report, fully half of the $48 million to be awarded the […]
Posted in Comedy/Satire, Literary on Feb 8th, 2007
Snakes and Ladders
David Lodge’s Souls and Bodies won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1980. Whether it deserved such an honor or not, it is certainly a well-crafted account of British Catholicism circa the era of Vatican II.
Lodge charts the spiritual growth (“decay” might be more accurate) of a group of British […]
Posted in Anti-Catholic, Audiobooks, Classics, Romance on Feb 3rd, 2007
BBC Audiobooks, 2005, unabridged, read by James Wilby
reviewed by Rachel Murphy
Having been a devoted fan of Jane and Rochester since my mid-teens, I decided to give Bronte’s The Professor a try, on audiobook—though perhaps I was motivated even more by its narrator, the film actor James Wilby (Behind the Lines, A Tale of Two Cities).
The […]