September 25th, 2007
Mark your calendars! Mon Sep 27, 2007 9 - 11 pm (PST) in Karina’s Chat Room
Meet Maureen McQuerry the author of a YA fantasy, Wolfproof (Idylls Press, 2006) the first in the Wolfproof Trilogy), Relentless Light, a collection of poems that won the New Eden Chapbook Award, Student [...]
July 27th, 2007
As we wind back into the swing of things, we’ll be focusing most likely on writing up reviews of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival productions we saw for bardolatry. (John’s review of As You Like it—and we did— is already up.)
For now, here’s a lovely little morsel that really takes me back—in this case, to the [...]
July 12th, 2007
Clan Murphy will be AWOL for a week, and with limited internet access, so we won’t even try to post. We’re going to Ashland to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival!
April 12th, 2007
over at Catholicmom.com book club.
Thanks and more thanks to Lisa Hendey, who was an early supporter of The Mystery of Things and Idylls Press, for picking Farrell O’Gorman’s Awaiting Orders as the April selection in her Catholic Mom book club, and for helping to promote our little novena for a new Catholic literary revival.
Said [...]
April 9th, 2007
by Daniel Murphy
(for Jesus Crucified, Who loved us until the end
composed before the Blessed Sacrament on Holy Thursday, April 5, 2007)
The discerning winemaker eyes
His choicest grapes-ruddy, round, robust,
And admires a cluster of sunlighted promise,
Taking them gently in hand, plucking them from the vine.
The diligent winemaker crushes
His choicest grapes-ruddy, round, robust,
And beholds the now-squat elements (skin, [...]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Joan of Arc: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Mary Gordon
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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
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Kelly Hatzenbihler on 