From My Bookshelf
Peter C. Meilaender, Christina Bieber LakeThere are so many books to read, and I need someone to share them with. (And because I've always wanted to belong to that elusive species, the "man of letters.")
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On Reading Too Many Books at One Time: How Many is Too Many?
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Two Birds in Two Cages?
Willa Cather’s childhood home in Red Cloud, Nebraska.
On Tuesday, I drove over 200 miles from Atchison, Kansas, to Red Cloud, Nebraska, in order to visit the National Willa Cather Center. After last Saturday’s stop at Mark Twain’s c...
Mark Twain's Boyhood Home on America's 250th Birthday
I don’t have a book finished to write about, but I do have a little surprise for you today: some short video footage in honor of America’s 250th birthday this 4th of July 2026.
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Professor of Political Science and Dean of Religion, Humanities, and Global Studies at Houghton University. Writes about books, culture, and ideas at "From My Bookshelf."
Veteran educator and inveterate lover of all things LIT. “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
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