.. Writing ..

Someone once said, "I hate writing, but I love having written." I agree. Sometimes, I love writing; most of the time, I only love having written. I have included book reviews, papers from several classes and Spanish poetry with my translations below.

This spring break, I read two books: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and Willa Cather's My Antonia. I generally admire O'Connor and don't especially admire Cather, but I found that I enjoyed My Antonia a whole lot more than Wise Blood. Go figure.

"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books
which are your very own."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Book Reviews for Praestantia Magazine Book Reviews for TownHall.com

Children's Christmas Stories by Favorite Authors  MacDonald, Tolkein & Godden
The Elements of Style  Strunk & White
Great American Conservative Women 
Speeches from The Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute
A New Look at the Psalms
Freemantle & The Reformed Presbyterian Church
Persuasions: A Dream of Reason Meeting Unbelief  Douglas Wilson
A Severe Mercy  Sheldon Vanauken
What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response 
Bernard Lewis
When Life and Beliefs Collide

Carolyn Custis James

 

amanda bright@home  Danielle Crittenden
Branches to Heaven  James Como
Doing Justice to Justice
Grabill, Schmeising & Zúñiga
Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism
  F. Carolyn Graglia
Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism
  Paul C. Vitz
Just War on Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World

Jean Bethke Elshtain
Ten Minutes from Normal
 Karen Hughes
 

Essays & Papers

Betsy's Clothes  English 3390 Personal Profile assignment
New!
Informal Report on Open Heart Surgery Observation
Mistral, la maternidad y el feminismo: Perspectivas de otra época 
Spanish 4365 Term paper (in Spanish only)
Representaciones de la realidad en tres cuentos de Quiroga y Borges: Un final inesperado
Spanish 4370 Term paper (in Spanish only)
Scholarly Article Critique: Promise Keepers and the Rhetoric of Recruitment  
Freshman Seminar assignment
An Unwilling Offering
Vida Nueva 
English 3390 Memoir assignment

Essays by Others Spanish Poems with my translations

Celibate Passion  Katherine Norris
The Dark Side of the Cross: Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction  Patrick Galloway
Singled Out by God for Good  Paige Benton
What if 9/11 Had Been Prevented...  from The New Republic

  Déjame Llorar  Ricardo Montaner
Las Golondrinas 
Traditional
Nocturno (III)  José Asunción Silva


Word List: 
New & Unusual Words and Their Definitions


Poetry:
Lacrymosa

"Nor... do I want to leave the impression that reading many books is important.
Reading great books and reading them well is what is important."

- John Piper, "Books that Have Influenced Me Most"

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