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A petticoat in the bicycle chain, Wednesday October 9, 2019 by Douglas Wilson.

Introduction

Consider this a small postscript on the Ladybug post.

Now some may want to say that the reason I review books by Rachel Miller or Amy Bird in the way I do

is because I am threatened by women who write on anything

other than quilting or scampy recipes. Now this would be a strong argument if

there were anything to it and so I thought I should add a postscript that would seem to show there is nothing to it.

If it appears that I am still seething about Luke's careless slip that seemed to indicate that

Priscilla helped her husband to set Apollos straight, then perhaps I should do

something to correct that false impression.

A brief glance at the record.

In the past I chose Rosario Butterfield's secret thoughts as my book of the month.

I have praised one of Nancy Piercy's books to the skies and to sign another one to classes I have taught.

Then there was Sarah Rudin who wrote a fine book called Paul Among the People.

And I have another one of hers lined up in my cue on translation called The Face of Water.

I don't know if that second one is any good, but it sure looks good.

And let us not forget Dorothy Sayers, who wrote an essay that launched a movement that I had something to do with.

Unless someone argue that all this is dependent upon females who are safely in my camp, I have also

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