[Spoilers] Strictly speaking of course we know nothing about prehistoric man, for the simple reason that he was prehistoric. G. K. Chesterton Kit keenly regretted having wandered off, but who could have foreseen being kidnapped by cavemen? The Bone House, pg. 311 This, my favorite line of The Bone House, is at the beginning of…
Month: October 2011
Strictly Speaking
[Mild spoilers] “The room we’re interested in is somewhere back there. At least, it was the last time I was here.” “Correct me if I am wrong,” suggested Thomas, his steel-rimmed glasses glinting in the faint light as he turned to address Kit directly, “but strictly speaking, you have never been in this tomb.” –…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Bone House
The universe is big. What’s more, it’s awfully crowded. It may be hard to tell, but they’re there, just a ley-leap away – countless worlds, people beyond number. Very few people know this; very few have traveled the ley lines to other dimensions. And those few people are constantly running into each other, often in…
Not Too Great a Good
Some Christians place little value on art. But I’m not going to complain about them. I intend, rather, to complain about Christians who place too much value on art. I am thinking right now of Tony Woodlief and his article Bad Christian Art. I ran across this article while reading Sentimentality And Christian Fiction (an…
Review: Vigilante
There was World War II, and then there was the Cold War. There was Vietnam, and Desert Storm, and the war on terror. Now there’s the war on crime. New York has fallen into the control of crime-lords, and cities throughout America are ravaged by thugs, big-time and small. The government is weak and hapless,…
Emancipating Minors, YA Style
During the recent blog tour of Monster in the Hollows, Becky Miller explored what she believed to be the book’s primary weakness: the fact that Janner, the main character, was “passive or reactive” throughout most of the story. “I believe,” she wrote, “in this climate of literature the young adult in the young adult novel…