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Readings and Ramblings Podcast34. Anna Karenina, Part VIIIListen to Shanna and Janice as they discuss the books they’re reading and the final part of Anna Karenina. It’s been an exciting book. Learn how this story ends and the wrap-up conversation and ramblings of the two hosts.Commonplace Quote3 Trust in the Lord, and do good;
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
4 Delight yourself in the Lord
and he will give you the desires of your heart.5 Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.
6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the ligh...2022-06-1353 min
Readings and Ramblings Podcast33. Anna Karenina, Part VIIListen to Shanna and Janice as they discuss the books they’re reading and Part VII of Anna Karenina.Commonplace QuotesThe first demand any work of any art makes upon us is Surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.~ C.S. Lewis“I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the Horses the...2022-06-011h 08
Readings and Ramblings Podcast32. Anna Karenina, Part VIListen to Shanna and Janice as they discuss the books they’re reading and Part VI of Anna Karenina.Commonplace QuotesI saw a young mother
With eyes full of laughter
And two little shadows
Came following after.
Wherever she moved,
They were always right there
Holding onto her skirts,
Hanging onto her chair.
Before her, behind her -
An adhesive pair.
'Don't you ever get weary
As, day after day,
your two little tagalongs
Get in your way? '
She smiled as she shook
Her pretty young head,
And I'll always remember
The words th...2022-05-261h 08
Readings and Ramblings Podcast31. Anna Karenina, Part VListen to Shanna and Janice as they discuss the books they’re reading and Part V of Anna Karenina.Commonplace QuoteI see thee glittering from afar --
And then thou art a pretty star;
Not quite so fair as many are
In heaven above thee!
Yet like a star, with glittering crest,
Self-poised in air thou seem'st to rest; --
May peace come never to his nest,
Who shall reprove thee!
~ To The Same Flower, William Wordsworth“The problem is that many people treat morality as a list of rules. But in real...2022-05-1959 min
Readings and Ramblings Podcast30. Anna Karenina, Part IVListen to Shanna and Janice as they discuss the books they’re readings and finish their discussion of Part IV of Anna Karenina.Commonplace QuoteWell, I always dodge questions about my religious beliefs, because when someone says to you, “Do you believe in so and so”, he nevers means that. He always mean, “Do you believe what I mean about so-and-so”. When you answer a question, you accept assumptions of the person who asks it and I very seldom find myself able to accept the assumptions.~Northrop FryeYou threat...2022-05-131h 02
Readings and Ramblings Podcast29. Anna Karenina, Part IIIListen to Shanna and Janice as they discuss the books they’re readings and discuss Part III of Anna Karenina.Commonplace QuoteKnowing is essential, there is no question about that; but knowing does not always result in loving and doing, whereas loving is based upon knowing and is much likely to result in doing.~ Lois E. Lebar, Education that is ChristianAll I know is this, man’s fate is decided on the day’s he’s born and we shant any of us go down to the underworld a day befo...2022-05-051h 03
Readings and Ramblings Podcast28: Anna Karenina, Part II and IIIJoin Janice and Shanna as they finish their discussions of Part II and begin to explore Part III of the novel Anna Karenina.Commonplace QuotesAt that moment they heard from behind them a loud noise—a great cracking, deafening noise as if a giant had broken a giant’s plate.“Who’s done it?” cried Susan. “What does it mean? Is it more magic?” “Yes!” said a great voice behind their backs. “It is more magic.” They looked round. There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his ma...2022-04-2756 min
Readings and Ramblings Podcast27. Anna Karenina, Part IIJoin Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss books they’re reading and delve into Anna Karenina, Part II.Commonplace QuotesWe know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it...2022-04-2154 min
Readings and Ramblings Podcast27: Anna Karenina, Part IJoin Janice and Shanna as they dive into the first part of the novel Anna Karenina, share their common-place book quotes of the week, and (of course) laugh along with them on their side conversations.Thanks for reading Readings & Ramblings! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2022-04-2154 min
Readings and Ramblings Podcast26: Anna Karenina, Part IJoin Janice and Shanna as they share the books they are currently reading and discuss Part I of Anna Karenina.Commonplace QuotesFor what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.~ C.S. LewisAs quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart. So dangerously near.~ Emily DickinsonBooks MentionedThe Magician’s Nephew by C.S. LewisThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wa...2022-04-1455 min
Readings and Ramblings Podcast25. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Part 4Join Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading and finish up their discussion of Khaled Hosseini’s, A Thousand Splendid Suns.Thanks for listening to Readings & Ramblings! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support of work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2022-03-091h 23
Readings and Ramblings Podcast24. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Part 3Join Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading and continue their discussion of Khaled Hosseini’s, A Thousand Splendid Suns.Thanks for listening to Readings & Ramblings! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2022-03-021h 16
Readings and Ramblings Podcast23. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Part 2Join Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading and continue their discussion of Khaled Hosseini’s, A Thousand Splendid Suns.P.S. Please excuse the blunder of calling Charles Dickens, Charles Dickenson. Commonplace QuotesNo one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.1 John 4:12One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other;As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.Listening thei...2022-02-021h 16
Readings and Ramblings Podcast22. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Part 1Join Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading and their discussion of Khaled Hosseini’s, A Thousand Splendid Suns.Commonplace QuotesI do not even try, Lord, to rise up to your heights, because my intellect does not measure up to that task; but I do want to understand in some small measure your truth, which my heart believes in and loved. Nor do I seek to understand so that I can believe, but rather I believe so that I can understand. For I believe this too, that...2022-01-261h 07
Readings and Ramblings Podcast21. North and South, Part IIJoin Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading, Cain and Abel, and continue their discussion of Elizabeth Gaskell’s, North and South.Commonplace QuoteIn this way, they try to put themselves above all authority but their own. They do not want anybody telling them what to do and they do not want any rules telling them what to do. The problem with this, of course, is that you should never trust people who have strong views of authority when talking about people under them, but have very...2021-12-011h 17
Readings & Ramblings Podcast13: North and South Part I2021-11-171h 05
Readings and Ramblings Podcast20. North and South, Part IJoin Janice and Shanna as they delve into a new book, Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South. Commonplace QuotesWhat I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one...2021-11-171h 05
Readings and Ramblings Podcast19. Mansfield Park, Part VIJoin Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading and finish up their discussion of Mansfield Park.Commonplace QuoteAnd, in yet another sense, handing everything over to Christ does not, of course, mean that you stop trying. To trust Him means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Hi...2021-11-031h 02
Readings and Ramblings Podcast18. Mansfield Park, Part VJoin Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading, rescue stories in the Bible, and continue their discussion of Mansfield Park.Commonplace QuotesFeelings come and feelings go,
And feelings are deceiving;
My warrant is the Word of God –
Naught else is worth believing.
Though all my heart should feel condemned
For want of some sweet token,
There is One greater than my heart
Whose Word cannot be broken.
I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word
‘Til soul and body sever,
For, though all things shall pass away,
His...2021-10-271h 07
Readings and Ramblings Podcast17. Mansfield Park, Part IVJoin Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading and continue their discussion of Mansfield Park.Commonplace QuotesAnd the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?”~ Judges 13:18 ESVMental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”~ C.S. Le...2021-10-201h 15Readings & Ramblings Podcast12: Mansfield Park, Part III2021-10-1457 min
Readings and Ramblings Podcast16: Mansfield Park, Part IIIJoin Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading and continue their discussion of Mansfield Park.Commonplace QuotesIf you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
~...2021-10-1457 min
Readings and Ramblings Podcast11: Mansfield Park, Part IIThis is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2021-10-071h 03Readings & Ramblings Podcast11: Mansfield Park, Part II2021-10-071h 03
Readings and Ramblings Podcast15. Mansfield Park, Part IIJoin Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading, marriages in the Bible, and continue their discussion of Mansfield Park.Commonplace QuoteMany are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
~ Proverbs 19:21[W]here all that was solemn, and soothing, and lovely, appeared in the brilliancy of an unclouded night, and the contrast of the deep shade of the woods. Fanny spoke her feelings. "Here's harmony!" said she; "here's repose! Here's what may leave all painting and all mu...2021-10-061h 03
Readings and Ramblings Podcast14. Manfields Park, Part IJoin Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading and start their discussion of Mansfield Park, chapters 1-4.Commonplace QuoteBut if Christ is the fulfillment of all the legends of the Corn King—if he is truly the myth that became fact—then the God of the Bible is not just the God of the Jews but of all the nations. Christians believe that the events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday fulfilled the messianic (special-revelation-produced) prophecies recorded in the Old Testament. What Lewis learned from Tolkien is tha...2021-09-221h 28
Readings and Ramblings Podcast09: The Scarlet Letter, Part IVThis is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2021-09-151h 05Readings & Ramblings Podcast09: The Scarlet Letter, Part IV2021-09-151h 05
Readings and Ramblings Podcast08: The Scarlet Letter, Part IIIThis is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2021-09-0156 minReadings & Ramblings Podcast08: The Scarlet Letter, Part III2021-09-0156 min
Readings and Ramblings Podcast01 - Numbers, Jane Eyre and bringing books to the poolListen in as Janice and Shanna discuss the book of Numbers, Jane Eyre, and more in this episode.2021-07-141h 12Readings & Ramblings Podcast07: The Scarlet Letter Part II2021-07-071h 12
Readings and Ramblings Podcast07: The Scarlet Letter Part IIThis is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2021-07-071h 12Readings & Ramblings Podcast06: The Scarlet Letter Part I2021-06-301h 10
Readings and Ramblings Podcast06: The Scarlet Letter Part IThis is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2021-06-301h 10Readings & Ramblings Podcast05: Redeeming Love Part III2021-06-1759 min
Readings and Ramblings Podcast05: Redeeming Love Part IIIThis is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2021-06-1759 minReadings & Ramblings Podcast04: Redeeming Love, Part II2021-06-091h 01
Readings and Ramblings Podcast04: Redeeming Love, Part IIThis is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2021-06-091h 01Readings & Ramblings Podcast03: Jane Eyre Part III, Redeeming Love Part 12021-06-021h 28
Readings and Ramblings Podcast03: Jane Eyre Part III, Redeeming Love Part 1This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2021-06-021h 28Readings & Ramblings Podcast02: Jane Eyre Part II2021-05-271h 05
Readings and Ramblings Podcast02: Jane Eyre Part IIThis is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2021-05-271h 05Readings & Ramblings Podcast01: Jane Eyre Part I2021-05-131h 28
Readings and Ramblings Podcast01: Introduction and RamblingsIn this episode, we ramble about the books that we’re reading individually and together, including the book of Numbers. There is a spoiler alert for the book ‘The Horse Whisperer‘ (sorry!). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingsandramblings.substack.com2021-05-131h 12