We Have a Winner for the September Giveaway
Congratulations to Bob M. who won a copy of Flannery O’Connor’s The Complete Stories. Recording of September’s Tsundoku Reading Society is now available on the Resource Page for paid subscribers.
October’s Tsundoku Reading Society
For October’s Tsundoku Reading Society, we will be reading a short work by Desíderíus Erasmus titled, In Praise of Folly. It’s a bit longer than the short stories we’ve been reading but still short enough to breeze through in a month’s time.
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If you’re interested in joining us for the Tsundoku Reading Society, just become a paid subscriber. I’ll email you a Zoom link the day of our meeting.
October’s Tsundoku Reading Society meeting is Monday, October 27th at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET.
October Giveaway
When you become a paid subscriber, you’ll get access to the growing resource page, all the archived content, and free books when I publish them. Plus, once you join our merry band of bards, bishops, and bibliophiles, students, scholars, and philosophers, and poets, preachers, and pirates, you’ll also be entered into a drawing for a chance at October’s Giveaway—Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar by William Barker. I’ll draw a random name and announce the winner at the end of the month.
Our October giveaway is a biography of one of the greatest scholars of the 16th century. Erasmus first gave us In Praise of Folly before giving us the Greek New Testament that became the foundation for the English Authorized Version of the Bible (AV or KJV). He critiqued the errors of the Catholic Church, assisted the Reformation, but also went toe-to-toe with Luther over some of his more eccentric doctrines and bitter antics. Erasmus of Rotterdam is often forgotten but essential scholar of Renaissance. I hope our time with him will revive 21st century interest in this beloved writer, teacher, theologian, and humanist.
