Today I am halfway in my 'year of reading Chesterton' and I just finished Michael Ffinch' biography. I cannot tell much about this biography, for several reasons. First, I took five months to read the book, so the first part is quite distant at the moment. The second reason is that I did not know anything about Chesterton's life before reading the biography: all my information comes from one source.
Looking through the table of contents, I see that with my chronological reading, I am not even on one third of the chapters in this book (which, I take it, roughly correspond with Chesterton's output). But at least I am beginning to get a feeling for the immense variety of Chesterton's thinking and writing.
One thing I liked about this biography was the short descriptions of Chesterton's various books: I do not only have a first idea about his life, but also about the books I want to read. And on that list of books to read I will put another biography, just to make sure I have various viewpoints.
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