I have finished three books in the last few days: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dante's Paradise, and Augustine's Confessions. I am a happy camper.
Confessions: read them. Augustine is excellent much of the time. The most peculiar thing (to me) was his frequent flights of allegorical interpretation, which is a thing we just don't do much. At least, I thought that until I was reading some Spurgeon and discovered that's his method, too...
Half-Blood Prince: the minimum reading age for the series--at least, as far as I would let my hypothetical kids read them--just jumped a couple years. It's good. It's not so dark as Order of the Phoenix, and has some really good stuff, but it also has certain content issues. Alas. For the record, I don't approve of sixteen-year-olds "snogging"...
Paradise: Alas, just when it was getting really good, we spend three cantos mostly praising Mary! Jesus may be the Main Point, but He's barely there!
So...if you do not support "snogging" at age 16 at what age do you support it pray tell?
ReplyDelete~Lady Ancilla
is that Paradise Lost (Milton) you're talking about?
ReplyDeleteMy sentiments exactly on Paradise: too much praising Mary.
ReplyDeleteKeep reading and reporting. Your reviews are much fun to read!
I am inclined to agree with Firinnteine on snogging. :-) My grandma got married at 17...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the encouragement, Ruhamah. :-) I will certainly keep blogging if I have something resembling a fan base!!
No, sorry. Dante's Paradise. I've been trying to read his trilogy since--oh, I was in Hell (so to speak) summer of 2001, so that puts it back a bit. In fact, before this summer I had read Hell twice, Purgatory once, and Paradise not at all; which didn't seem right, somehow.