Another Reading Goal Met

 

I begin every year by setting reading goals. Those goals include the total number of works read, the total number of pages, and specific book/genre/author goals. This year, one of those goals was to read a book about G. K. Chesterton. I met that goal last Sunday by finishing The Gift of Wonder: The Many Sides of G. K. Chesterton edited (of course) by Dale Ahlquist. 

The book is a collection of papers presented at the June 2000 Chesterton Conference.

There are a number of delightful papers in the collection. As a Secular Franciscan, one that stood out for me was Frances Farrell's "Chesterton's St. Francis of Assisi." I also really enjoyed Aidan Mackey's "Chesterton and the Moral Imagination" and Ekaterina Volokhonskaia's "A Russian Perspective of G. K. Chesteron." And though I'm not a fan of Belloc (Heresy!), I also found James Reidy's "The Four Bellocs" interesting. (Yes, they snuck in a paper about Belloc in a book about Chesterton!)

Though I singled out a few of the papers, I enjoyed them all. Which is a nice way to meet one of my reading goals.

I had several other goals related to this blog. 

I earlier in the year met one of them, reading The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by J. R. R. Tolkien.

I have two other blog-related goals to meet yet: A book by Chesterton, and a book by C. S. Lewis.