Did I blog about this already? Well anyway.. I am bad at finishing things.. so my current challenge is to finish books that I have started. So far: On Chesil Beach, He Loves Me, Becoming the Answer To Our Own Prayers. Will keep you posted.
A week today, when all the furore has ebbed and the markets have bottomed out, our nation will awake to the sounds of bugles and church bells as we commemorate 100 years from the start of the Battle of The Somme. I am an historian by background, and the Somme for me is emblematic of a human tragedy that need never have happened. My reading of it is this: we began a war from a variety of odd alliances and murky motivations, capped off finally by a sense that no-one had the will to stop it. In order to give the war effort impetus, posters, propaganda began to be bandied around about the enemy, about what they would do to children and how they needed to be stopped. It worked as a recruiting effort- young men, boys, and women all joined the war effort. They joined as an act of patriotism, tinged yes with fear, but also a sense that it might be the right thing to do. They joined from across the country- but at the heart of the front line forces were thousands and ten of thousands...
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- Half of a Yellow Sun
- Michael Baughen's Prayer Book
- Irresistible Revolution
- a book by Jodi Picoult
- From Witchcraft to Christ
- a book about a missionary in Ethiopia
- Philip Yancey's Prayer Book
I haven't finished any of them. I am not a completer finisher!