Category: Books

K-Lo reviews Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness – and Liberalism – to the Women of America

From the January issue of First Things: Jane Austen, Public Theologian

I was ranting about that horrible Mansfield Park movie to a friend of mine; the tantrum had the best possible ending in that we’re going to read the book together and talk it over in March. Would anyone be interested in doing an online group read of Mansfield Park? Perhaps we could do two chapters… Continue reading Would anyone be interested in a group read?

Steven Greydanus, my movie guru, raves Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World — and he’s even read the books! (Thanks, Victor, for the heads up.) I could blog on and on about how much I love the books. I’m still only halfway through reading the series for the first time — I’m… Continue reading I will definitely rent this when it comes out

Yesterday, when I was out driving, I was passed by a big white tractor-trailer. The only decoration on the truck was on its rear doors: a name and a picture of a penguin. I thought, “oh, this truck must be one of a fleet of refrigerated trucks.” Was this a semiotic moment? Would semiotics concern… Continue reading More on Semiotics

I gave in to book lust again yesterday. Hambet had fallen asleep on my lap and resisted my efforts to put him to bed, so I spent a little time surfing around the ‘net with a sleeping baby on my lap. I had been thinking about a book I thoroughly enjoyed as a pre-teen and… Continue reading The find!

Poor Erik and Steven! Erik has been posting on semiotics (parts i, ii, iii, music) and I have been hanging out in the comments boxes, sniveling “I don’t get it! I don’t understaaaaaaaaaaand!” Erik and Steven have been patiently explaining semiotics to me, but to no avail. Every time I think I have a grip… Continue reading The semiotics of the dunce cap