Marianne Wright Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Marianne Wright

George MacDonald on Sunday You cannot have proof of the existence of God or the truth of the Gospel story as you can have of a proposition in Euclid. But the man who orders his way by the word of the Master shall have a conviction that in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom.

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I think kids like books like this* and Boxcar Children with their tin cup, because it's comforting to read about other kids solving little problems and making orderly little systems in a chaotic world. *picture is from "All of a Kind Family" about a family of girls in Brooklyn https://t.co/CRnM8MaoIm

Marianne Wright

I found this out in Helen Macdonald's magnificent book H is For Hawk

Marianne Wright

In my life I have bored so many people with facts on Garamond and pseudo-Garamond. This is what happens when impressionable minds are exposed to Robert Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style". https://t.co/Qyxir0Wgcn

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@FlintDSpencer Anything by Richard Scarry. Maurice Sendak's Nutshell Library. Elsa Beskow - all good, we especially like Peter in Blueberry Land. Shirley Hughes, especially Dogger and the Alfie books, there's a collection called Alfie's Out of Door Stories that is excellent. If it's a girl,

Marianne Wright

I think kids like books like this* and Boxcar Children with their tin cup, because it's comforting to read about other kids solving little problems and making orderly little systems in a chaotic world. *picture is from "All of a Kind Family" about a family of girls in Brooklyn https://t.co/CRnM8MaoIm

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Marianne Wright

@courtneyellis @ivpress The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy, highly recommend it and the book to which it is a sequel, The Good Master.

Marianne Wright

George MacDonald on Sunday Jesus Christ is the way to God. You cannot get that by any mere theological system. It's no use talking about Jesus Christ, using any set of terms, however systematic and well-fitting. You must know Him. How to do this? By studying His words, His will.

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George MacDonald on Sunday (from a sermon about the parable of the rich young man) There was nothing like this in the law: was it not hard? — Hard to let earth go, and take heaven instead? for eternal life, to let dead things drop? to turn his back on Mammon, and follow Jesus?

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According to this, in the 17th century a "stroke" was literally a blow from the hand of an angel. (From Adam Nicolson's "God's Secretaries" about the KJV.) https://t.co/DbAaEIyjFI