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What James Schall Plans to Read During Lent

One of my favorites comments on one of my favorites: > For Lent, I will read Hilaire Belloc's Places. Belloc is the best essayist in our language. Here are essays on places from North to the South of Europe, to the Mideast, to North Africa. The memory of

Odd Consumer News

You have $4,000 and the toilet is too good for it? Go here and purchase Super Bowl XL, Opus [http://www.krakenopus.com/NFLhome_flash.aspx]. It's 20" x 20", weighs 90 pounds, and appears to contain a higher percentage of fluff than your pillow.

Saturday Evening Eudemon

Settling back with six of the seven children, watching Hidalgo. I heard good things about it. We'll see. I just got back from an outing with Alex (12). I took him to the video store to pick out the movie, then took him to Mike's Pizza,

Going After Them Reading People

I don't know how I missed this last week: > This coming Tuesday, the new line of NASCAR-themed Harlequin Romance books makes its official debut with a press conference at Daytona International Speedway. Link to Week-Old News [http://www.exceptionalmarriages.com/weblog/BlogDetail.asp?ID=29102]

Bernanos

It's George Bernanos' birthday today. Here are a few links to the excellent fiction writer. General Bio Link [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bernanos.htm]. Crisis Link [http://www.crisismagazine.com/julaug2002/book4.htm]. Welborn on Diary of a Country Priest [http://www.amywelborn.com/catholicwriters/diary.

100 Openings

100 best first lines from novels [http://www.litline.org/ABR/100bestfirstlines.html]. Good stuff. Thanks, Eve Tushnet [http://eve-tushnet.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_eve-tushnet_archive.html#113917389683730321] .

Odd Books

A list of eight odd "How-to" books: How to be Happy Though Married, by "A Graduate in the University of Matrimony" How to Rob Banks without Violence, by Roderic Knowles How to Shit in the Woods, by Kathleen Meyer How to Become a Schizophrenic, by

E-Books

Terry Teachout on something that interests me greatly: the effect of electronic books: > The existence of the e-book will cause the authors of the 21st century to go about their business very differently than did their 20th-century predecessors. Many of these differences will arise from the way

Paul Elie

I've received more information about Paul Elie, the writer of the essay/book in this month's Atlantic Monthly. According to a friend: > Elie's a good writer, Catholic, though left of center I would imagine on some issues. He's editor of the

Brace Yourselves

A great article from National Catholic Register about the upcoming spate of Da Vinci Code knock-offs. [http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=18320]