Good Books Don’t Have to Be Hard Work, But Lots Are

Lev Grossman’s post on the renaissance of storytelling in the WSJ is a good read. I love a good story. The other day I was talking with a friend who told me he loved spy novels, and then went on to say that he’d never read the “Sherlock Holmes” stories. “I wish I could read them again, for the first time,” I replied. A good story is what brings me back again and again to Tolkien, Lewis, Chesterton, Dumas, Doyle, and so many more. I love “hard books” just as much. In fact, I love them mo