[Magdalen] Magdalen Digest, Vol 119, Issue 8

[Sharon Moon]

My moment of unique value was listening to and watching the “national”
funeral of President Carter.  Very extraordinary sharing from those who
shared their “stories.”

Sharon Moon


On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM <magdalen-request at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> Can I count the Christmas present, even though I didn't start reading until
> New Year'sDay? It's a James Patterson ( whom I have to admit I had never
> noticed before) - The House Of Cross.  Not only did granddaughter look at
> the map of Washington inside the cover, saying, " Ooh, that's where the
> hotel was,  here's where they held the  meetings, and we went to the
> Library of Congress over here....", but the whole story is about a post-
> Presidential election interregnum period that felt just so apposite, it was
> uncanny, particularly because much of the action takes place in the snow,
> and I do recall what it was like to travel in January to see Fr Tony C when
> he was  living in South Bend! I didn't need much imagination, even though
> it was high mid-summer here.
> Lesley de Voil
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> From: Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] favorite book(s) from 2024?
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> On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 at 11:50, Juli Tarsney <juli at tarsney.net> wrote:
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> > It's good to hear from all of you, some of whom I do see on Facebook. I
> > have such good memories of St Sam's and then Magdalen, and I do value my
> > abiding connection with the Anglican world, as embodied by each of you
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> > I'll chime in here on the books question -- a more straightforward
> > assignment than the "update" one :-)
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> > After a look at Goodreads: My very favorites included two novels by David
> > Nicholls (One Day and Us) and, much earlier in the year and on the
> > non-fiction front, Liz Cheney's memoir (audio version -- highly
> > recommended). On the Anglican theme, I read Glittering Images by Susan
> > Howatch ... I had been assuming this was a reread, but it didn't feel at
> > all familiar to me, so I think the book I remember reading years ago was
> > actually a later title in the series. At any rate, I'd kind of like to
> read
> > the whole series, but since then I've been sidetracked ... the story of
> my
> > reading life.
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> I think I've read all the Starbridge novels - probably not in the correct
> chronological order, but  I can't check now. I hope they're in one of the
> boxes in our back shed (I couldn't bear to throw them out !) I enjoyed them
> all. I often wonder what my mother-in-law (wife of a sometime CofE Vicar
> and postgrad.student of JRR Tolkein, brought up Unitarian) would have made
> of them, but she died before they started to come out.
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> Lesley de Voil
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