By Harper Hall From Curious George to The Hunger Games to Jayber Crow , I have read an insurmountable number of books in my nineteen ...
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By Grace Fields A few years ago, my dad handed me a stack of papers. This stack of papers was an instruction manual. A week prior I had ord...
By Paighton Brooks bell hooks was an American author, educator, social theorist born and raised in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She wrote several...
By Bradfield Ross One of my primary goals in college is to expose myself to new points of view and perspectives. This year I made a reading...
Bridget Kim Class of 2019 I am lounging comfortably with approximately forty of my favorite strangers in The Poetry Room, a cozy haven ...
By Natalie Smith Class of 2016 Prior to our departure for China I decided that I wanted to have something to read during the trip t...
Connor Tracy Class of 2016 “What’s the difference? It’s just easier to watch the movie.” I hear this all the time when films are mad...
Sam Whittaker Class of 2015 For my last blog as a McConnell Scholar, I thought it would be fun to share my favorite books that the McC...
Cathrine Mountain Class of 2015 A good friend recently gave me a book to read. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is the story of a shepher...
Sean Southard Class of 2015 What do families, churches, businesses, schools, and government have in common? Each one of the groups men...
Sam Whittaker Class of 2015 Roughly one month ago, I completed my last retreat as a McConnell Scholar at Carter Caves State Park near As...
By Aaron Holder (Class of 2017) “It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books.” There once was a time...
When we first began reading “The Education of Henry Adams” for our autobiographies seminar series, I must say I was not excited. When you pi...
Thanks to a former student who recently gave me C.S. Lewis' The Weight of Glory, I just read his essay "The Inner Ring." How ...
On Friday, February 18, Mr. John Granger paid a visit to the McConnell Center. A noted scholar in the developing field of Harry Potter stud...
Just recently in Political Science 299, the freshmen McConnell Scholars read a book entitled You Gotta Have Wa ("harmony"), writt...
Looking Backward (1888). . . wow what a piece of political propaganda it is. Bellamy’s book has almost no literary merit, by which I mean t...
I might have named this novel "The Man of Notting Hill" or "Don Wayne," both harkening back to Miquel de Cervantes' ...
This past summer I was rummaging through some letters of C.S. Lewis and discovered a note where he was enthusiastically recommending a new b...