Happy weekend, y’all. I’ll be writing a sermon on Colossians, making only my third sermon appearance at my church, so wish me all the best with that! Otherwise, just getting ready for Women in Translation month… Usually, I only manage to read one or none, but this year I’m hoping to do a bit better. I’ve got a few candidates lined up. Hope you have a fab weekend, and here’s a book, a blog post, and a link to help you on your way.
1.) The link – it’s very old, but while trying to see if there’s any table of all previous Booker judges (I couldn’t find one), I stumbled across this excellent Guardian article from 2008. It was celebrating 40 years of the Booker, and managed to get a judge from every previous year to spill the beans – often quite indiscreetly.
2.) The blog post – I wanted to remind myself of the characters in On the Calculation of Volume III before I started On the Calculation of Volume IV, and so stumbled across a blog post on a blog I didn’t know before, A Reader of Else. Well, it certainly acted as a reminder – but so much more than. It is such a brilliant piece of writing about literary fiction and science fiction, characters changing their worlds or resisting them, etc. I can’t believe such fascinating, well-written literary criticism is just available for free!
3.) The book – somehow I only recently learned that Anne Fadiman has written another collection of essays! Frog is the title – does anybody know it? Ex Libris was the starting point for my love of books-about-books, so a new Fadiman volume is always welcome.
Will be thinking of you as you study Colossians and prepare your sermon. I know you are not meant to have favourite books of the Bible but Colossians and Ephesians (I think of them as covering a lot of similar ground but Colossians is more succinct!) do rank as up there near the top for mine.
Thanks for the links which I hope to enjoy later.