July 2025 | christian.montaigne.io

uly 2025 7/1 Good Poems, Garrison Keillor The Valley of Vision Bad Therapy, Abigail Shrier New and Selected Poems, Samuel Menashe The Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard Jóhann Jóhannsson, Orphée POKER FACE 7/2 Bad Therapy, Abigail Shrier The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers (finished) The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard Brambly Hedge Lilo and Stitch (2002) 7/3 “Essays in Idleness,” Kenko “The Superannuated Man,” Charles Lamb “Going for a Walk,” Max Beerbohm “A Piece of Chalk,” G. K. Chesterton Bad Therapy, Abigail Shrier The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard POKER FACE 7/4 Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard TASKMASTER 7/5 The Valley of Vision Eternal Covenant, Ralph Smith Where I Live, Maxine Kumin Good Poems, Garrison Keillor Bad Therapy, Abigail Shrier (finished) Max in the House of Spies, Adam Gidwitz Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard 7/6 Max in the House of Spies, Adam Gidwitz Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard POKER FACE 7/7 The Valley of Vision Eternal Covenant, Ralph Smith Where I Live, Maxine Kumin Good Poems, Garrison Keillor Deeper, Dane C. Ortlund The Church Impotent, Leon J. Podles The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard New and Selected Poems, Samuel Menashe The Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White Tuck Everlasting BCR The Secret Garden BCR 7/8 The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard The Way of the Shepherd, Kevin Leman POKER FACE 7/9 The Valley of Vision Eternal Covenant, Ralph Smith Where I Live, Maxine Kumin Max in the House of Spies, Adam Gidwitz Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara 7/10 Good Poems, Garrison Keillor The Valley of Vision Eternal Covenant, Ralph Smith (finished) Where I Live, Maxine Kumin The Everlasting Meal Cookbook, The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard POKER FACE 7/11 Good Poems, Garrison Keillor The Valley of Vision The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard Deeper, Dane C. Ortlund Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren Dinotopia: The Search for the Ruby Sunstone (2005) POKER FACE 7/12 7/13 Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard Wicked (2024) 7/14 The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard Deeper, Dane C. Ortlund Good Poems, Garrison Keillor The Valley of Vision Where I Live, Maxine Kumin The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton SLINGS AND ARROWS 7/15 Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard Max in the House of Spies, Adam Gidwitz Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren PARKS AND REC 7/16 The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard Max in the House of Spies, Adam Gidwitz Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren 7/17 Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard (finished) The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg PARKS AND REC 7/18 Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara The Road to En-dor, E. H. Jones King Fu Panda (2008) The Passionate Friends (1949) 7/19 On the Reliability of the Old Testament, K. A. Kitchen The Road to En-dor, E. H. Jones Before and After Garden Makeovers (finished) Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren The Batman (2022) 7/20 The Road to En-dor, E. H. Jones Bicycle Thieves (1948) Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren KUNG FU PANDA: THE PAWS OF DESTINY 7/21 Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara The Road to En-dor, E. H. Jones Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Astrid Lindgren The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton I’m With Her, Wild and Clear and Blue PARKS AND REC 7/22 The Road to En-dor, E. H. Jones Deeper, Dane C. Ortlund Good Poems, Garrison Keillor The Valley of Vision Where I Live, Maxine Kumin The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg Leisure, the Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper New and Selected Poems, Samuel Menashe 7/23 Good Poems, Garrison Keillor The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg Leisure, the Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper Uncollected Lectures (“Table-Talk”), Ralph Waldo Emerson Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara The Road to En-dor, E. H. Jones (finished) “The Lady of Shallott,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson “The Pardoner’s Tale,” Geoffrey Chaucer The Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White Stand and Deliver (1988) 7/24 The Blazing World, Margaret Cavendish Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara 7/25 The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett The Great Muppet Caper (1981) The Ron Clark Story (2006) 7/26 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara Max in the House of Spies, Adam Gidwitz (finished) The Hit (1984) 7/27 The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett Snowbound, Peter Kong TUMBLE LEAF Tarzan (1999) 7/28 Good Poems, Garrison Keillor The Valley of Vision Thread of Life: The Smithsonian Looks at Evolution, Roger Lewis Searching for Human Origins, Jean-Loup Craipeau Western Civilization, Jackson J. Spielvogel Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara (finished) The First Days of School, Why Don’t Students Like School? The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett Snowbound, Peter Kong Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien 7/29 The Valley of Vision Where I Live, Maxine Kumin Good Poems, Garrison Keillor Deeper, Dane C. Ortlund The Church Impotent, Leon J. Podles Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt, Lewis Spence Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien The Passionate Friends (1949) 7/30 Where I Live, Maxine Kumin Good Poems, Garrison Keillor The Christian Future, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton 7/31