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I spend the day in the grip of Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders. Isn’t that terrible? My father once gave me a lecture on wasting good working hours on reading light fiction, but I couldn’t put my tablet down. I was utterly wrapped up in the mystery–in Hastings’ impatience, Poirot’s… Read more »
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Here’s a roundup of links for your Friday! First up, Dorothy Cummings McLean reviews Rumer Godden’s classic, In This House of Brede: Novels are what we read when we should be reading something else—or are they? Currently I should be reading Henri Nouwen’s “modern spiritual classic,” The Way of the… Read more »
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Ignatius Press authors reviewing each other! Dorothy Cummings McLean (Ceremony of Innocence) reviews Fiorella de Maria’s Do No Harm for Catholic World Report: Apparently it is unusual for one Ignatius novelist to review another, but I cannot resist chatting about Fiorella de Maria’s excellent legal thriller Do No Harm. This… Read more »
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A reader review of “Everywhere in Chains”
by Ignatius Press Novels
February 20, 2014 10:42 am 2 Comments
Reader Ellen Amland sends this review of Everywhere in Chains: I kept paging back to the home page on my Kindle to check that the title of James Casper’s book was indeed called Everywhere in Chains. The title suggests a story filled with dark imagery, a violent plot, and more… Read more »
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“Voyage to Alpha Centauri delivers on every level.”
by Ignatius Press Novels
February 3, 2014 11:48 am Leave a Comment
Dr. Mark Nowakowski reviews Voyage to Alpha Centauri: With his most recent effort, “Voyage to Alpha Centauri,” O’Brien jumps genres into the realm of science fiction, continuing the long tradition of writing theologically meaningful sci-fi that was begun by authors such as C.S. Lewis. The comparison to Lewis is no… Read more »
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News & Links on the Feast of Mother Cabrini
by Ignatius Press Novels
November 13, 2013 5:36 pm Leave a Comment
Here’s a sampling of what’s been going on in the literary and Catholic world recently. CatholicFiction.net reviews Meriol Trevor’s Shadows and Images, calling it “a deeply moving love story, beautifully written” with “echoes of Jane Austen”. It also has more than an echo of Bl. John Henry Newman’s conversion story,… Read more »