Last September I went away for a week by myself to Lunenburg because I was pretty burnt out, had taken no time off other than an occasional day here and there since the start of 2020, and needed to start using my vacation time. I had no set agenda so spent lazy days walking the local trails, checking out historic sites and museums in the area, and- of course- poking around in any book shops I ran across. I ended every evening sitting by the water, reading and/or knitting until the sun set. Right before I left, I bought & downloaded Dominion: How The Christian Revolution Remade The World, the 2019 book by British Historian Tom Holland. It isn't a history of Christianity exactly, though it does cover a lot- and I mean a lot- of church history. Rather, it's a chronicling of how Christianity shaped and defined the Western world. This is what I was reading while in Lunenburg, though I didn't finish it until after I was home. I was so busy during the fall, between work, moving, and family stuff in the run up to Christmas that I never found the time to work on a review which would do justice to the book. I'm planning on going back and going over highlights of Dominion again so that I can begin a proper review of it.
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"At the University I spent my entire time in the acquisition of languages, living, dead, and half-dead, and knew nothing of the outside world. In this diligent pursuit of words I spent about sixteen hours of each day. Very soon after graduation I had forgotten the languages, and found myself intellectually bankrupt. In other words I was what is called a distinguished graduate, and, as such, I took to school teaching as the only trade I could find that need neither experience nor intellect." Related Posts: We followed up last week's mediocre episode with a very fun one: The Proof Of The Pudding. In it, Alec & Janet King are going away for two days to celebrate their fifteenth anniversary, leaving their children- and nephew Andrew- under the care of eldest sibling Felicity. Not long after they leave, Aunt Hetty drops Sarah off there as well, because a situation has arisen which requires her travelling to Charlottetown. Unfortunately, Felicity lets the power- such as it is- go to her head and starts acting like a petty tyrant, ordering the other children about and generally being unbearably pompous. The other children quickly rebel against this treatment and it's swiftly becoming Lord of the Flies on King Farm until unexpected company shows up.
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