David Foster Wallace, Shane Claiborne, New Book Excerpts, Erin Bartels, MORE - Feb. 20 - ERB Daily Book Morsel
Published: Wed, 02/20/19
February 20, 2019
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness,
and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people
and to sacrifice for them, over and over,
in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace, novelist
tomorrow is his birthday!
No time for David Foster Wallace's
mammoth novel INFINITE JEST?
Check our these short reads
that he wrote.
*** Kindle Ebook Deals!
Becoming the Answer
to Our Prayers
by Shane Claiborne /
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Only $3.99!!!!
*** The Reading Room – Excerpts from
some of February’s Best Nonfiction Books!
Get a taste of this month’s best nonfiction books, by reading the following excerpts:
Peter Enns, Cara Meredith, Ross Gay, Cal Newport, MORE
Erin Bartels – We Hope for Better Things [Review]
Awaiting Something New to Arise
A Review of We Hope for Better Things
by Erin Bartels (Paperback: Revell, 2019)
Reviewed by Cynthia Beach
In Case You Missed It...
*** New Book Releases – Week of 18 February 2019
Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out:
Peter Enns, Gerhard Lohfink, Immigrants Reflect on America, MORE
*** Raising Racial Awareness
As the way forward toward a culture of anti-racism,
Jemar Tisby suggests the course defined by the acronym ARC:
Becoming AWARE; Fostering deep interracial RELATIONSHIPS;
and COMMITTING to act against the forces of racism. Following Tisby’s rubric,
here are some books that will help raise our awareness, and orient us
into committed patterns of action:
Here's to energizing reading today!
Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books