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September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · podcasts

…because I just don’t have time or inclination to gather my thoughts. I have plenty of thoughts, and plenty of emails to answer, and plenty of other things to do. So, in case you’re interested, here are some links if you want to hear some of my thoughts: Mary in the Kitchen, on Catholic Foodie [...]

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A Century Turns, by William Bennett

August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Reviews

When I chose A Century Turns: New Fears, New Hopes–America 1988 to 2008, by William J. Bennett, from the BookSneeze reviewer program, I was curious if it would give me a historical glimpse of the last 20 years or just be an opinionated tome of political rantings. Curiosity isn’t always the best way to choose [...]

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Crossing the Goal: Playbook on the Virtues

July 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books, Reviews

I’ll admit it: I signed up to review Crossing the Goal: Playbook on the Virtues through the Catholic Company reviewer program with my husband in mind. It’s written for men after all, by men’s men (or so I heard tell). And what a book it is! First, the presentation: the whole thing is full-color. I [...]

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Seven Catholic Business Books

July 9th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Books, Quick Takes

Last week, I mentioned how shocked I was by a statement in an article at Catholic Culture with the top 10 business books that no Catholic titles were included “because so many Catholic business books are either junk or not very helpful.” I was sure this couldn’t be true. So I Twittered and Facebooked not [...]

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Needles and Creativity

July 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Books, Reviews

Thanks to some work I do for the Catholic Writers Guild, I sometimes get copies of books by Catholic authors. The two books I’m sharing with you today came to me that way, and I’ll admit that I was delighted. They had been on my purchase list for a while. Both of them are billed [...]

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