Like many avid readers, when I find an author I very much enjoy I tend to read through his or her entire body of work. Most recently this has led me deep into the novels of the Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson.
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Myth of the Secular Bibliography
For those who were intellectually captivated by the recently broadcast seven part CBC Ideas series “The Myth of the Secular” and found yourself too engrossed in listening to jot down all the fascinating books being discussed, I’ve prepared what I hope will be a helpful list of those very works.
The Serious Point Lost in the Mantel Kerfuffle
By now you’ve no doubt become aware of the teapot-filling tempest that was inspired by a few very well-spoken lines of Hilary Mantel’s brilliant lecture delivered as the first of the London Review of Books Winter Lecture series at the British Museum. However what is being obscured by all the dust kicked into the air […]
Robert Michael Pyle Guest Blogs for Village Books
Robert Michael Pyle, author of such remarkable books as Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage, Walking the High Ridge : Life As Field Trip, and most recently, The Tangled Bank: Writings from Orion, made a rare guest blogger appearance in the Village Books Blog where he discussed his favorite nature books.