[Magdalen] Magdalen Digest, Vol 119, Issue 8

[Ginga Wilder]

I watched, too, Sharon.  Jimmy Carter was a good man, whatever one may
think of his Presidency. As I watched the National Cathedral service.  I
wept and laughed and grieved at my imaginations of US going forward. Lord
have mercy.
Gwilder

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM Sharon Moon <sharonbmoon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> >    1. Favourite books from 2024? (Lesley de Voil)
> >    2. Re: favorite book(s) from 2024? (Lesley de Voil)
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> > Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 12:27:17 +1000
> > From: Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com>
> > To: magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> > Subject: [Magdalen] Favourite books from 2024?
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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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> > Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 13:16:26 +1000
> > From: Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com>
> > To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> > 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:
> >
> > > 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
> > ...
> > >
> > > I'll chime in here on the books question -- a more straightforward
> > > assignment than the "update" one :-)
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Lesley de Voil
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> > End of Magdalen Digest, Vol 119, Issue 8
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