First Things 50 Best
First Things lists their 50 best blogs. I can't agree with about 80% of them, but a few are worth attention.
Reprint Time--Helena
A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
Apart from Mark Shea, the Corner, and Touchstone, I don't KNOW any of these blogs! And yet, I do not feel "out of the swim," or if I am out of the swim, I really am not too frantic about it.
ReplyDeleteListing "best blogs" is sort of silly given that no one has read a fraction of the available blogs. It's like listing the "50 Best Snowflakes".
ReplyDeleteDear TS,
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Thank you.
Dylan,
As always a pleasure to hear from you. Thank you.
shalom,
Steven