reading notes

His Dark Materials Book III
by Philip Pullman
ISBN: 9780375823352
Note: If you don’t want to know anything about what happens, don’t read this review until you’ve read the book. If you’ve read the earlier books but put this off out of fear of disappointment, then go ahead and read Book III.
This is the final book in Pullman’s [...]

Further Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott
IBSN: 1573222992
This is Lamott’s second collection of essays on faith, her first being Traveling Mercies. It is several years later, and Lamott is no longer as surprised by her faith as she once was. She’s also a lot more disgusted by the state of the world.
Her disgust is pretty much [...]

by Maya Lin
ISBN: 0684834170
This book manages to be oddly welcoming yet distant at the same time. The overall effect is of calmness and reflection, even though the art reflected on includes a lightening rod for controversy — the Vietnam memorial in Washington.
Lin was still an undergraduate at Yale when she entered the memorial competition. She [...]