1865

3 books

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
The logic puzzles hiding inside the nonsense are the real fun here, the Mad Tea-Party arguments actually hold together if you squint, and Alice herself is wonderfully stubborn about it all. Short enough to read in an afternoon, strange enough to stick with you longer.
From the Earth to the Moon Jules Verne, translated by Ward, Lock & Co.
Verne's poking fun at Americans here, and it lands: a club of bored Civil War artillerymen decide to fire a cannon at the moon, and Michel Ardan cheerfully volunteers to ride inside. You'll skim some ballistics math, but the deadpan enthusiasm carries you right through.
Verses on Various Occasions John Henry Newman
You find Newman thinking through faith as something lived in uncertainty, not neatly solved, especially in “Lead, Kindly Light,” with its weary, human prayer for the next step. The poems are formal and devotional, sometimes austere, but their hesitations and loneliness give them a surprisingly intimate pull.

3 books

sort era audiobooks

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
The logic puzzles hiding inside the nonsense are the real fun here, the Mad Tea-Party arguments actually hold together if you squint, and Alice herself is wonderfully stubborn about it all. Short enough to read in an afternoon, strange enough to stick with you longer.
From the Earth to the Moon Jules Verne, translated by Ward, Lock & Co.
Verne's poking fun at Americans here, and it lands: a club of bored Civil War artillerymen decide to fire a cannon at the moon, and Michel Ardan cheerfully volunteers to ride inside. You'll skim some ballistics math, but the deadpan enthusiasm carries you right through.
Verses on Various Occasions John Henry Newman
You find Newman thinking through faith as something lived in uncertainty, not neatly solved, especially in “Lead, Kindly Light,” with its weary, human prayer for the next step. The poems are formal and devotional, sometimes austere, but their hesitations and loneliness give them a surprisingly intimate pull.