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Holy Week – Jesus in Art
In recent years, I’ve come across some striking portrayals of Jesus and amassed a small collection. My favorite visual rendition of Christ is the faceless one in the movie Ben-Hur (1959), but these paintings achieve a similar effect of reverent mystery, at least to my mind. First, one I have shared before by Ivan Kramskoi. Continue reading
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Reading Reverie
It is starting to feel like spring where I live. Just barely. Mornings are still cold (and dark, thanks to daylight savings), and I’m still wearing sweaters. But the sun comes out in the afternoon, and I think the snow is over for the season (!). The crocuses photo is from Pixabay—I have not seen Continue reading
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Musings and Memories from “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”
This review contains spoilers I remember the first time I finished The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. I was somewhere between 8 and 10 years old, curled up in a mustard-colored barrel chair we had got second hand from somewhere, in the family room when it still had the ugly gray carpet (complete with cigarette burns Continue reading
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Is “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” a Love Story?
It’s taken me quite a while to reread The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I soon realized many of the stories (so brilliantly) represented in the Jeremy Brett TV series have become tedious for me to read, whereas the stories which were not adapted retained more of their zest. Though disappointed by this, I latched onto Continue reading
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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