There’s a rather surprising number of book bloggers in Southern California for a region that’s only occasionally known for being particularly bookish, but (no) thanks to the traffic and sprawl, we don’t get to see each other as often as we’d like. But an out-of-town visitor is always a great excuse to get together. Thanks to the fact that Rhapsody Jill was visiting for the weekend, I got to meet up with her, Amy, Softdrink […]
I’ve lived in Southern California ten years as of this week, and that seems like an appropriate time for some reflection on a place I wouldn’t have expected to find myself before this decade started. Sometimes I still wonder at the fact that I’m here at all, but I’ve rarely questioned my decision to come here. There are so many ways in which my life here is better than I had any reason to expect […]
I’ve lived in Southern California ten years as of this week, which is as long as I’ve lived anywhere in my entire life, and it’s one of the last places I’d ever have imagined I’d end up. Granted, I still might not end up here, literally; I hope I’ve still got a few good decades left, and I certainly I hope I’ll be spending them with the native Southern Californian I married almost six years […]
The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation Stephen Prothero (Twitter) HarperOne (2012), Hardcover (ISBN 0062123432 / 9780062123435) Nonfiction (history/commentary), 544 pages Source: Publisher, for TLC Book Tours Book description, from the publisher’s website: Since Thomas Jefferson first recorded those self-evident truths in the Declaration of Independence, America has been a nation that has unfolded as much on the page and the podium as on battlefields or in statehouses. Here Stephen […]
