Another year over, a new one just begun... here's the books I read in 2022 along with my personal reviews. With a few shorter ones along the way, I managed to hit my aim of a book a month, plus two spares. I feel like I'm getting busier each year, but evidently I'm currently making …
These Advent posts now appear to have taken a covid induced turn. This week is looking like having a few posts on the benefits of isolation in the lead up to Christmas. Yesterday, was stopping and reflecting. Today, it's reading a book. In fact, I'm reading a few books at the moment. Typical. I've usually …
Following straight on from last week’s post: Despite the awful experience in his school years from those who believed they were teaching gospel truths, Orwell was still able to see some of the liberties within Christianity. In his essay, Politics versus Literature Orwell explores Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and if you haven’t read that novel, then …
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Having recently read some of Orwell’s essays, I’m again in this post reflecting on some points that he covers that are worthy of consideration, aligned with the aims of this blog. One lengthy essay Orwell wrote entitled Such, such were the joys explores the anything but joyous experience he had at St Cyprian’s in the …
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