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Traversing from Old Quebec to the trendy Saint-Roch neighborhood of Québec City, there is a building that appears to be a large, beautiful church. If you walk up the steps and peek in the door, you’ll find that this is not actually a church but a library, the Maison de la littérature! Formerly the Wesley Temple built […]
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Rodriguez criticizes parts of Calvinism, but notes that the population of Calvin’s Geneva grew from 13,000 to 21,000 in a decade, and his response created a “legacy of welcoming strangers, resisting tyrants, establishing justice and reaching across borders and cultures in vulnerability and faith.” Mike Cosper applies the work of political philosopher Hannah Arendt to […]
Last novel of the Witcher Saga really dropped in quality. That story peaked in the penultimate book The Tower of the Swallow when Geralt was searching for missing Ciri, and was companions with Dandelion, Cahir, Emiel Regis and Milva. And also the set up of Emhyr var Emreis as the main villain before we know […]
I've been having trouble concentrating on reading. Reading on a kindle has been strangely helpful so I mainly read books on there now, however, I wanted to read the Stormlight Archive (I'm on book 2 now lol) and I own the chunky mass market paperback editions, which are on my bookshelf (physical bookshelf just fyi). […]
A few weeks ago, I found myself having lunch next to the Belgian author David Van Reybrouck. We were in the writers’ room at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, where he had just taken part in a panel discussion on the end of empire, drawing on his Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted book Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth […]
Show Up and Vote by Ani DiFranco & Rachelle Baker This visually stunning picture book follows a young girl as she accompanies her mother to vote. It’s a cold and wet November day, and the girl doesn’t really want to leave home. But her mother tells her how important voting is. Readers follow the girl […]
The late Warren Wiersbe, a prolific author of more than 170 books, never seemed keen on writing a book with his grandson Dan Jacobsen, as Jacobsen tells it. But after Wiersbe’s death in May 2019, the family discovered a dusty manila file folder among the thousands of files Wiersbe left behind. In it was a […]
There are about 60,000 charities in Australia, serving the community in a variety of ways. Many engage in advocacy in support of their purposes and their constituencies. The law says that in order to be recognised as charities, organisations must further purposes for the public benefit. So does charity advocacy meet this public benefit expectation? […]
I’m reading the penguin house translation of “the travels of Marco Polo” and I’m about 50 pages in. I feel so lost. I have a bachelors in geography and have read several history books / historic dramatizations and nothing has me re-reading passages as frequently. I’m not sure if it’s the translation (from original Italian) […]