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Author: Kevin Holtsberry

I work in communications and public affairs. I try to squeeze in as much reading as I can while still spending time with my wife and two kids (and cheering on the Pittsburgh Steelers and Michigan Wolverines during football season).
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Freiheit! by Andrea Grosso Ciponte

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I am not a huge graphic novel reader, but when given the chance to explore an interesting subject or approach to illustration I will pick one up. Freiheit! by A...

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Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1) by Seanan McGuire

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I’m playing around with this format to see is this might be a way to quickly and easily post short reviews of book that I have read but don’t plan o...

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Posted on January 26, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I really enjoy The Pinkcast. But this one, on dealing with frustration, is particularly useful these days. Check it out.

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A Man by Keiichirō Hirano

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

It all makes for a rather melancholy and -- in its complicated investigations and its details -- oddly wending-all-over-the-place novel, but also an interesting...

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I’m done (promise)

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

OK, I am done futzing around with the theme/header/layout/etc. Not that anyone noticed, but back to your regularly scheduled programing…

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Posted on January 20, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Highly recommend the three Lord of the Rings episodes from the Great Books podcast. Start with The Fellowship of the Ring episode.

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When you want to give up your New Year’s Resolution after two weeks…

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 2 Comments

A harsh reality I have had to admit to myself: if I had the ability to write insightful, well-crafted book reviews of serious non-fiction then I would be writin...

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Notes & Asides

  • I really enjoy The Pinkcast. But this one, on dealing with frustration, is particularly useful these days. Check it out.

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  • OK, I am done futzing around with the theme/header/layout/etc. Not that anyone noticed, but back to your regularly scheduled programing...

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  • Highly recommend the three Lord of the Rings episodes from the Great Books podcast. Start with The Fellowship of the Ring episode.

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  • While the laws that we live under matter a great deal, Christians need to recover the primacy of the personal over the political more than anything else. If we can’t love our neighbors in a personal, politically agnostic, face-to-face way, they’ll turn to synthetic and unreal ideological communities to fill the gap left by the loneliness of their daily lives.

    The road back to sanity, solidarity, and social trust on both sides of the political spectrum will involve turning away from this ideological cul-de-sac and back toward personal communities once more. If Christian churches won’t do this, they risk being exploited as political playthings of the powers that be. -- Christianity as Ideology: The Cautionary Tale of the Jericho March

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  • You’ll notice we are not having a national debate about paying off poor people’s mortgages. We could do that just as easily if the self-declared champions of the poor had any interest in anything other than their own status and their own appetites.

    They don’t.

    The College-Debt Debate Is a Culture-War Battle

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Last 10

  • “The Devil’s to Pay” John Buford at Gettysburg: A History and Walking Tour by Eric J. Wittenberg
  • Freiheit! by Andrea Grosso Ciponte
  • Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War by David A. Powell and Eric J. Wittenberg
  • Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1) by Seanan McGuire
  • The Stoic Test: Daniel H. Pink on how to deal with frustration
  • A Man by Keiichirō Hirano
  • I’m done (promise)
  • LOTR on the Great Books Podcast
  • When you want to give up your New Year’s Resolution after two weeks…
  • Thomas Chatterton Williams: Wrestling with Race and Culture

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