The Blogroll (revisited)

Last year I drew your attention to some of the links in my blogroll, which I was then cleaning up. Now that I’ve been further weeding them (and cutting back significantly on my blog reading), but have added some others, here’s another installment of the links in my blogroll you might particularly wish to follow.

• Dreams of Earth and Resurrection: Poetry and such by Amanda, whose In Cambodia I recommended in last August’s list.
• Holy Worlds, again. An active community of Christian fantasy (and science fiction, and historical fiction, in separate, smaller forums) authors, aspiring authors, and enthusiasts.
• A Christian Worldview of Fiction and Rewrite, Reword, Rework: Two blogs, one personal/professional/etc. (fitting the title fairly well, but lately coming down more on the “Christian Worldview” side) and one a writing-tips blog, by author Rebecca Luella Miller.
• The Queen and the Handyman: A blog for her book of that title, and her other writing, by Maria Tatham, who’s lately become a regular commenter here.

And again, please do peruse the blogroll, which is to your right (just above the length “Archives” section and below the “Top Posts”) if you’re reading this on the blog and not in a blog reader, on Facebook, or through some syndication service.

And if you, dear reader, have a blog you think I might be interested in reading, please do let me know.

Best Books: Huckleberry Finn

The next work on my list of books everyone ought to read is Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

The Blogroll

Over the past few years, I’ve accumulated a long list of blogs that I read regularly, or in some cases that I used to and would like to read but (because they are so prolific) simply can’t spare the time. Many of them are linked from the two sections of my “blogroll”, to your right if you’re reading this on my blog directly rather than on Facebook or in a blog reader.

Before I begin, I’ll mention that I plan to weed my blogroll in the coming weeks; many of the sites I list, especially those of friends and former teachers, seem to have been abandoned in the last few years, but the main problem is that the list is far too long. (So if you want to investigate all my links, instead of just the ones I’m going to keep, it would be wise to hasten.)

In the remainder of today’s post, I’d like to highlight some of the more noteworthy blogs in my blogroll (in no particular order).

• A Maggid’s Musings: The blog of a Messianic Jewish former rabbi. This site contains quite a bit of very helpful background information on Scriptural concepts that most modern Christians don’t get in their early education.
• In Cambodia: A very dear friend is working for a mission organization in Cambodia, and blogging about her experiences there.
• Holy Worlds: A community of authors and enthusiasts of Christian fantasy, SF, and historical fiction. While the site includes a blog, I enthusiastically point any like-minded readers to the forums that are the bulk of the site.
• Patricia C. Wrede is a favorite author; her blog often includes helpful writing advice.
• The Musical Diary of Greg Scheer: He’s the Minister of Worship at Church of the Servant, which was my church when I was in Grand Rapids, and I find much of his music to be brilliant—but the rest is so wildly eclectic that I never know what we’ll get next.
• Fairies, Fantasy, and Faith: A blog for discussion of writing Christian fantasy.
• Iron Ink: Bret McAtee is pastor of Charlotte CRC and a man of decided theological and political opinions, most of which are highly unpopular but orthodox.
• Twenty Sided: I first happened upon this blog for its “DM of the Rings” comic, then thoroughly enjoyed reading the account of a D&D campaign, and then stayed for the variety of interesting and occasionally deep other content.
• Two Points for Honesty: The blog of another friend from college, with interesting posts on subjects ranging from politics to video-games to programming to music.
• The Tao of D&D: A blog by a curmudgeonly, “old-school”, occasionally brash AD&D DM, from which I have benefitted tremendously in my development of Strategic Primer.
• Speculative Faith: Another Christian fantasy community, this one focusing more on the genre in general and on specific books than on writing. It also includes a library of Christian
  fantasy novels.

Again, these are just a few of the blogs I follow; I recommend taking a look at my full blogroll (to your right on my blog). And I also recommend subscribing to this blog, so you’ll receive new posts either by email or in your blog reader as soon as they’re posted.