Marilynne Robinson Discover the Literary Richness and Deep Meanings of Genesis 3.9 (131 ratings) Listen to the Intro 01:17 What's Reading Genesis about? Reading Genesis (2024) approaches the Book of Genesis as a work of profound literary and theological significance, emphasizing its rich explor...
by Marilynne Robinson (2004) Robinson’s meditative, deeply philosophical novel is told through letters written by elderly preacher John Ames in the 1950s to his young son who, when he finally reaches an adulthood his father won’t see, will at least have this posthumous one-sided conversation...
Ten years ago, I posted a“Best/Worst of 2004” pieceon Ignatius Insight, containing a listing of books and music that I either really liked or didn’t care for at all. That then led, the following year, to thefirst “Best Books I Read in…” piece. Each year there have been more...
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead 63. “Each time you happen to me all over again.”— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence 64. “Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”— Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give 65. “How easy it was to lie ...
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129 15 GILEAD, by Marilynne Robinson. (Picador/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $14.) A story of fathers and sons that reaches back to the abolitionist movement and into the 1950's, narrated by a 76-year-old Iowa pastor. 7 This Week NONFICTION Weeks On List 1 NIGHT, by Elie Wiesel. (Hill...
Several charts are presented of best selling hardcover fiction and nonfiction, paperback mass market, and paperback trade books for the week of December 22-28, 2014 with titles including "Lila" by Marilynne Robinson, "The Boston Girl" by Anita Diamant, and "Wild' by Cheryl Strayed....
“Lila” by Marilynne Robinson(Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 262 pp., $26). The third novel in the cycle begun with “Gilead” and “Home,” Robinson’s new book returns to Iowa pastor John Ames and his wife, Lila, to trace the incomprehensible largeness of even the most constrained lives...