![]() In this book, author Ashley Hales explores these and other challenges to faithful living in the context of suburbia and offers some practical alternatives. The time for reading them has finally come, and I happily recommend the following with a brief review and a favourite quote from each.įinding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much by Ashley Hales (InterVarsity Press, 2018)Ĭonsumerism. In the last few weeks, as the coronavirus pandemic has kept me home more, you might say I’ve been practicing some reverse tsundoku by reading my way through my various piles of books. ![]() “So many books, so little time” as Sara Nelson titled her year of passionate reading. I didn’t buy them all, but I can definitely identify with tsundoku. ![]() I have books waiting for me on my bedside table, books in my office ready for review, ebooks in pdf on my laptop, Kindle copies on my tablet. ![]() Or as we might think of it today, tsundoku is “ the art of buying books and never reading them.” While it’s new to me, it’s actually an old word that dates from at least the Meiji era (1868-1912), and it means letting books pile up to read later. ![]() One of the few Japanese words I know is tsundoku. ![]()
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