Elliot Ritzema Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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I acquire and edit books @LexhamPress, and write sometimes. MDiv @regentcollege, STM student @NashotahHouse. “By him all things hold together” (Col 1:17).
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Michael PolanyiElliot Ritzema@ashley_lande I also love Proper Confidence, but I read it much later! I’ve been meaning to read Michael Polanyi, whom he draws on quite a bit in that book, for a long time, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
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Pierced by Love: Divine Reading with the Christian Tradition
Hans BoersmaElliot RitzemaI greatly enjoyed editing this book by my former prof Hans Boersma, out early in 2023: Pierced by Love: Divine Reading with the Christian Tradition https://t.co/BsejOWjmyR
Hardcover, 2023
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Liberation Day: Stories
George SaundersElliot RitzemaWhat I love about George Saunders is that he’s so specific; he’s not satisfied with cartoonish depictions of people. I finish his stories with increased curiosity, wanting to attend more closely to people. https://t.co/z1yqVk5uMB
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles DickensElliot Ritzema“I never knew what it was to feel disgust and contempt, till I traveled in America.” —Charles Dickens Dickens put all this into his novel Martin Chuzzlewit, and it lost him the friendship of Washington Irving
Paperback, 2017
$20.73$10.36 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George SaundersElliot RitzemaIf you enjoyed George Saunders's A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, you may also enjoy these sketches a former student made during his lectures on Russian short stories: https://t.co/3WKCPyiblP
Paperback, 2022
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Middlemarch
George EliotElliot Ritzema"There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men." —George Eliot, Middlemarch
Paperback, 2003
$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Indian Home Rule
M. K. GandhiElliot RitzemaI've read a lot of Chesterton, but somehow it escaped me before now that Mohandas Gandhi's first book, Hind Swaraj (a manifesto for Indian home rule based on the principles of nonviolence), was in part prompted by this Chesterton column from Sept 1909: https://t.co/4dbDByI2wl
Paperback, 2023
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Jesus and the Disinherited
Howard ThurmanElliot Ritzema@muchl8r I read 61, which is a number I’m especially proud of because I found it very difficult to read for all of 2020 and much of 2021. Favorites included A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders, Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman, and Technopoly by Neil Postman.
Paperback, 1996
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Past Watchful Dragons
Walter HooperElliot Ritzema@TheJeditor Have you read Walter Hooper's Past Watchful Dragons?
Paperback, 2007
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
C. S. LewisElliot Ritzema@shemaiahng Till We Have Faces is Lewis's best fiction, IMO. I've also read The Body Keeps the Score and the Lincoln bio, and am just starting the Peterson and excited about it!
Paperback, 2017
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