December 2024 Reads
2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton by Arthur Conan Doyle ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just by Timothy J. Keller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The £1,000,000 Banknote by Mark Twain ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Galatians for You by Timothy J. Keller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Holy Bible: Contemporary English Version (CEV) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 2024 Reads
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
About Barbers by Mark Twain ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wireless Confusion by Algernon Blackwood
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
October 2024 Reads
Prayer: An Invitation to Meet with God by Malcolm Gill
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
Holy Bible — Contemporary English Version (ongoing, not yet finished)
September 2024 Reads
Deep Magic, Dragons and Talking Mice: How Reading C. S. Lewis Can Change Your Life by Alister McGrath
The New Windmill Book of Stories from Around the World by Hilary Patel, et al
The Man Born to Be King: A Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Dorothy L. Sayers
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Summer of Swans by Betsy Byars
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
If I Were God, I’d Make Myself Clearer: Searching for Clarity in a World Full of Claims by John Dickson
Bible — Modern English Version (started in July 2024)
The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
If I Were God, I’d End All the Pain: Struggling with Evil, Pain and Faith by John Dickson
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
August 2024 Reads
If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Growing Up with Ghosts by Bernice Chauley
A Fortunate Life by Albert B. Facey
God’s Smuggler to China by Brother David
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Why God Won’t Go Away: Engaging with the New Atheism by Alister McGrath
Understanding Jesus by Alister McGrath
Silver Blaze and Other Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
July 2024 Reads
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf (Detective Varg #4) by Alexander McCall Smith ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Journey: A Pilgrim in the Land of the Spirits by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Landscape of Faith: An Explorer’s Guide to the Christian Creeds by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Just Like That by Gary D Schmidt ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Translated by Henning Koch) (A re-read)
IN PROGRESS:
The Holy Bible: Modern English Version (MEV)
If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot
June 2024 Reads
Ordinary People by Judith Guest ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World by Tom Wright ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dracula by Bram Stoker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Freedom, Authority and Scripture by J. I. Packer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Explaining Your Faith Without Losing Your Friends by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Holy Bible: New Life Version ⭐️⭐️⭐️
May 2024 Reads
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒎𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑨𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒖𝒓𝒔 by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
𝑺𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
𝑨 𝑷𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎 by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️
𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒂 𝑮𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒍𝒚: 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒕 by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
April 2024 Reads
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑴𝒓 𝑽𝒂𝒓𝒈 by Alexander McCall Smith ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
𝑸𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉: 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 by Talal Itani ⭐️⭐️⭐️
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝑴𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚: 𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
𝑫𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒕: 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒕 𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒚 by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
𝑨 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒀𝒂𝒎𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒍 by Beverly Cleary ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
𝑰𝒏𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 by Alister McGrath ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Vale Sister Enda Ryan
The founder and first headmistress of my secondary school passed away today. She was still the headmistress when I attended and she retired at the end of my final year.
She loved singing and our school assemblies often involved some singing (in addition to the state anthem). She wrote and composed the school song, which we sang with gusto at School Sports Days and other school events. At the end of the school day, we would be treated once again to her singing over the PA system (one I remember her singing is “A Cowboy’s Friend”) or some other music would play while we made our way off the school grounds.
Funny memory:
One of the songs that Sr Enda liked singing was “A Little Peace”. We usually just sang the chorus and the refrain at the end. For YEARS, she sang the ending refrain as “FREE AS feathers on the breeze, Sing with me my song of peace.” She later learned that the actual lyrics are “WE ARE feathers on a breeze…” She thought that was ridiculous and decided that we just would continue singing it the way we had been doing, thank you very much!
Sister Enda is now indeed free and singing her praises to her Lord.
A Yewnique Life 