Old Books with Grace hit 20k downloads yesterday (and 15k of those happened in the last year)! Thank you to all you listeners out there and especially to my wonderful guests who come on to talk old books with me!
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Writer (gracehamman.substack.com, forthcoming book from ), PhD in medieval lit (), podcaster (Old Books With Grace), wife & mother.
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A BUNDLE OF NERVES today for my second grader's solo in her school play!!! She is not nervous at all. But as a former shy kid, I can't focus on anything today! Let alone the revised manuscript of my book due next week.. 😵💫
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This month's Five Faves "Jokien with Tolkien" Newsletter features @GraceHammanPhD, @musingsofjamie, @IsmaelC_C, @PastorLibrarian, and @BerekTheHorse
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I read O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait yesterday. I think it would make a really interesting thriller period piece movie. Immediately reread Browning’s My Last Duchess afterwards, I love a good literary inspiration
parents when the first of the kids starts to sniffle:
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Lot of fun to talk Eliot with Grace!
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New episode of Old Books with Grace out today with @tony_domestico on T.S. Eliot, modernist poetry, and theology. Check it out on the podcasting service of your choice, including Apple & Spotify! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/old
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New episode of Old Books with Grace out today with on T.S. Eliot, modernist poetry, and theology. Check it out on the podcasting service of your choice, including Apple & Spotify!
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Tell me: what's your FAVORITE historical fiction novel of all time?
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The Medievalish Book Club is reading the wonderful anonymous fourteenth-century poem Pearl together next, starting in February! Become a paid subscriber at gracehamman.substack.com to read this beautiful poem with me and others. (Bonus: it will make really good Lenten reading!)
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Update: Thoroughly geeked out over canto 26 of the Inferno, had a great time, hope my enthusiasm doesn't make this episode completely incoherent
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Having lots of convos about the big poets this week... Eliot on Tuesday, Dante today! Phew, my brain is a little mangled from reading a ton of beautiful and complicated poetry very quickly
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PSA: More of us should be reading Madeleine L'Engle's nonfiction!
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Just had such a fun conversation with on T.S. Eliot & modernist poetry! Can't wait to share with you all next week. I could geek out over Eliot forever.
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Master of the Osservanza (Sano di Pietro?), The Meeting of Saint Anthony and Saint Paul, c. 1430/1435 nga.gov/collection/art
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If I'm this excited to see them in a PDF that bears zero resemblance to the finished project, I am going to LOSE MY MIND when I see the hardcopy 😍😍😍
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The image permissions are coming in for some of the medieval art in my book... these artworks are beautiful and strange, and obviously I knew that because I chose them but it's just somehow delightful to see them together, as a whole.
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The Medievalish Book Club finished Julian of Norwich this week. "What, do you wish to know your Lord’s meaning in this thing? Know it well, love was his meaning. Who reveals it to you? Love. What did he reveal to you? Love. Why does he reveal it to you? For Love." ❤️ 🔥
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So we needed to be persuaded how much God loves us, and what sort of people he loves; how much in case we despaired, what sort in case we grew proud.
-Augustine of Hippo, De Trinitate
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What I needed to read this morning.
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Ok, I’m giving audiobooks a try in earnest outside of road trips. Any audiobook aficionados out there? Hot tips for me?
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"...all through the Bible...comes the message of blessing, and that it is the vocation of the People of God to bless as well as be blessed, and to turn away wrath with a soft answer--a softness which is not flabby, but which has the power of meekness." -Madeleine L'Engle
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Already have had 3 people tell me they're going to take this month's Medievalish as a sign & read or reread Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. THIS THRILLS ME! I like both Tolkien's and Armitage's translations, though they are quite different, for those of you wishing to read!
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The new Medievalish is out today. In it, I think about winter, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and George MacDonald. gracehamman.substack.com/p/medievalish-
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an anglo-saxon charm for beekeepers to recite in order to keep their bees from flying away
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The new Medievalish is out today. In it, I think about winter, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and George MacDonald. gracehamman.substack.com/p/medievalish-
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The Fifteen Oes, a late medieval prayer (and part of the first prayerbook printed in English at the behest of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII!), contains 15 addresses to Jesus. I love this address of one of them: "O blessed Jesu, lovable king and friend in all thing" ❤️
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Ye schulen seke me, and ye schulen fynde, whanne ye seken me in al youre herte.
(Jeremiah 29:13)
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For Austen fans out there, is doing a fun yearlong Austen read together on her substack!
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The Year of Jane is beginning! Grab a copy of Pride & Prejudice and read with us: haleystewart.substack.com/p/things-to-kn
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Christmas gift card put to good use. The Fifteen Oes are beautiful!
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. My hatred of winter. George MacDonald. These disparate elements are coming together in this month's Medievalish newsletter. Make sure it lands in your inbox on the twelfth of each month here: gracehamman.substack.com
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I did an episode on T.S. Eliot’s Journey of the Magi for Old Books with Grace this Advent. Still applicable lost-Advent if you need some Epiphany-themed listening today… available on any podcasting platform including Apple
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Writer friends, do you always write on a computer? Do you sometimes write on a typewriter or by hand? I would love to hear your methods/reasoning. #amwriting #5amwritersclub
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I write in my cold Colorado basement, and recently I have been doing so with a shawl wrapped around my shoulders. It makes me feel like Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte. Alas, despite this feeling, neither the quality nor quantity of my work has increased.
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Continuing my journey of brushing up on early modern theologians. Last year I read a bunch of Luther. This year: Calvin. What parts of the Institutes should I read? I do not have the time to read it all, but I want to read the highlights/most characteristic of Calvin's thought...
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Hey listeners of Old Books with Grace! Help me decide what I want to do with the podcast for Lent as I plan out this next semester...
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Planning out Old Books with Grace for spring. In the past I've written Lent series much like the recent Advent series, and I'm mulling over what to do for this year... Lent is def harder than Advent. Any thoughts? Explanations of poll options in thread 1/
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The Medievalish Book Club is reading about Jesus as Mother in Julian of Norwich's writings today. My favorite section. So much rich beauty and intimacy. So much to contemplate regarding our true identities as beloved, limited children.
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Planning out Old Books with Grace for spring. In the past I've written Lent series much like the recent Advent series, and I'm mulling over what to do for this year... Lent is def harder than Advent. Any thoughts? Explanations of poll options in thread 1/
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- Eliot's Four Quartets58.8%
- A book that changed you41.2%
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1. Different historical poems on the idea of "turning," ie repentance & transformation
2. Meditations on Eliot's Four Quartets, which I mentally associate with Lent & love deeply
3. Conversations with guests focused on books that are spiritually transformative
4. Anything else?
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Planning out Old Books with Grace for spring. In the past I've written Lent series much like the recent Advent series, and I'm mulling over what to do for this year... Lent is def harder than Advent. Any thoughts? Explanations of poll options in thread 1/
- Poetry on "turning"0%
- Eliot's Four Quartets58.8%
- A book that changed you41.2%
- something else (ideas?)0%
17 votesFinal results
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