Love this so much! I’m listening to Emma M. Lion audiobooks right now and she is constantly referencing so many books and authors. It is delightful!
I love seeing those connections in Scripture. The Bible reading plan I use must be intentionally connecting specific OT and NT books because I’ll be reading and then just in awe how the NT reading often connects so meaningfully to the OT text… which is God’s intent of course, but I love when I see it! ❤️
A recent one for me is reading Jennifer Trafton’s biography on Lilias Trotter, If Only We Could See and seeing a reference over and over to a George MacDonald novel, the Seaboard Parish, which Lilias read as a teenager. So of course, I needed to get The Seaboard Parish! ☺️
Ooh, I haven’t read the Emma M. Lion books, but I keep seeing them referenced! One of these days! 😂
Omw yes, big facts on Scripture! That’s one thing I’ve loved about my Paul Tripp project this year, too. It’s crazy how timing overlaps and brings things to light I wouldn’t have gotten otherwise! God’s provision for sure!
Ooohhh yes, and Lilias Trotter and George MacDonald. 🤗 That’s great. I’ve read “Phantastes” and the two “Princess” books (loved “The Princess and Curdie” when I read it in college) but that’s about the extent of it. I didn’t have quite the same reaction to “Phantastes” that C. S. Lewis did. 😂😬
I was just thinking about this idea the other day...book pairings. My thought came after I found out that Joan Didion read Conrad's Victory before starting a novel so I thought it would be cool to read Victory with A Book of Common Prayer. But of course the list of interesting pairings is probably incredibly long...and can probably be overdone, but I just really like the idea of reading two authors who were in conversation textually somehow.
Love this so much! I’m listening to Emma M. Lion audiobooks right now and she is constantly referencing so many books and authors. It is delightful!
I love seeing those connections in Scripture. The Bible reading plan I use must be intentionally connecting specific OT and NT books because I’ll be reading and then just in awe how the NT reading often connects so meaningfully to the OT text… which is God’s intent of course, but I love when I see it! ❤️
A recent one for me is reading Jennifer Trafton’s biography on Lilias Trotter, If Only We Could See and seeing a reference over and over to a George MacDonald novel, the Seaboard Parish, which Lilias read as a teenager. So of course, I needed to get The Seaboard Parish! ☺️
Ooh, I haven’t read the Emma M. Lion books, but I keep seeing them referenced! One of these days! 😂
Omw yes, big facts on Scripture! That’s one thing I’ve loved about my Paul Tripp project this year, too. It’s crazy how timing overlaps and brings things to light I wouldn’t have gotten otherwise! God’s provision for sure!
Ooohhh yes, and Lilias Trotter and George MacDonald. 🤗 That’s great. I’ve read “Phantastes” and the two “Princess” books (loved “The Princess and Curdie” when I read it in college) but that’s about the extent of it. I didn’t have quite the same reaction to “Phantastes” that C. S. Lewis did. 😂😬
I was just thinking about this idea the other day...book pairings. My thought came after I found out that Joan Didion read Conrad's Victory before starting a novel so I thought it would be cool to read Victory with A Book of Common Prayer. But of course the list of interesting pairings is probably incredibly long...and can probably be overdone, but I just really like the idea of reading two authors who were in conversation textually somehow.