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Thursday, January 06, 2011
Catholic Fiction Podcast
JulieD (of Happy Catholic) has a new podcast up, she and Scott Danielson talk about fiction (mostly SF, F and horror, from where they've started) from a Catholic perspective at A Good Story Is Hard To Find.
Thank you for the link and the mention! I have plans to broaden the subject matter, but with one episode up and only two more planned, we haven't had a chance to go beyond our clear favorites which ... ummmm ... well, yeah, are sf.
Though I will say that, despite what you'd think, The Reapers Are The Angels is the only zombie novel I've ever seen where I think you might be able to say it is not a horror novel. :-)
With the Catholic News sites discussing the Vatican's move to reform the LCWR, I pulled this slim volume written back in 1986 off the shelf to re-read. It's a quick and amusing read: a satirical view of the breakdown and renewal of reli...
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This was one of those novels I ...
If you, like me, have been reared on tales of the second World War as the just and virtuous struggle of the "greatest generation", Evelyn Waugh's arch novels (based loosely on his own war experiences) are an important and darkly enjoyabl...
This was the first time in some years that I've re-read this Austen novel, one of the quieter and shorter ones, but one which has ranked among my favorites. It was striking me, on this pass, that it rather shows the effects of having be...
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Thank you for the link and the mention! I have plans to broaden the subject matter, but with one episode up and only two more planned, we haven't had a chance to go beyond our clear favorites which ... ummmm ... well, yeah, are sf.
Though I will say that, despite what you'd think, The Reapers Are The Angels is the only zombie novel I've ever seen where I think you might be able to say it is not a horror novel. :-)
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