[Magdalen] Magdalen Digest, Vol 119, Issue 8

[Brian Reid]

I had no idea the digest mechanism still worked. Gmail’s thread system 
has made it obsolete. But obviously it is still there.

On 2025-01-12 17:14, Sharon Moon 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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>> Message: 1
>> 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
>> Sent from MetroMail
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>> Message: 2
>> 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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