A friend recommended this play, and it was great. Arthur Wilson is a black playwright who wrote stories of black people in Pittsburgh (or unnamed big cities that look a lot like Pittsburgh). This play opened in 1985 starring James Earl Jones as Troy.
After the title page, there’s this little poem:
When the sins of our fathers visit us
We do not …
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WIP
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Some people I respect really liked this book. And one friend read it right before covid hit, which I can imagine would give it special weight. Overall, I was not that drawn into it. Technically, there is some action, but it rarely feels like it. When I was 40 pages from the end, it still seemed like not much had happened. The tone reminds …
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Re-listened to this audiobook – last listened to it in November 2015. Not my favorite overall, but it’s compelling, and I do like Hodges, Holly, and Jerome.
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Listened to this while painting the cabinets as well. Great!
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These stories are absolutely delightful. I listened to them while painting our kitchen cabinets (a month long project). We also watched the 2020 BBC show based on this. The first two seasons were pretty good, but after a while they stray too far from the source material.
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A re-read. This is one of the first books we ever got from Audible way back in 2010, and I just listened to it again. Great!
[Read More]I learned about this book from a blog post by Robin Sloan. That piqued my interest and led me to this excellent 90-minute talk by the author, which covers many of the most interesting points from the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_beSe2cLQI.
In short, Ward believes that the seven books …
[Read More]Here are all the books I read in 2025:
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This book was excellent – a biography of four men, their friendship, work, and faith. They were C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, and Charles Williams. For years, they met (mostly in Lewis’s home, The Kilns, or at a pub called The Eagle and Child, which they called The Bird and …
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