Category: Books
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Well, I haven’t been blogging much, but I’ve been busy in my STACK below… Highlights so far: Hood and Pilgrim At Tinker’s Creek. *********** I’ve collected quite a few "must-reads" in the last year or two. I’ve decided that this is the Stack that I want to read in the first half of 2008. There’s…
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I was born in 1974 with a perfectly good set of eyes. They were (and still are) brown like my mother and father’s. I have never had to wear contacts, glasses, or even a Planter’s Peanut style monocle in order to see things near or far. So far, and I take nothing for granted in…
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Last night while I was waiting for my coal to get to the desired temperature I practiced my Jedi light-saber techniques under chilly starlight. As I swung the walking stick to and fro, twirling it around my arm, dispelling hypothetical Sith Lords and Orcs with each lethal blow, I had a wave of swash-buckling nostalgia. …
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Just a visual plug to recommend reading a good book this weekend. I think I’m going to re-read David James Duncan’s The River Why over the next few weeks. It’s definitely in my top five I’d say. We’ll see if that still holds true.
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I know I’ve mentioned this book already, but having just finished it, I highly recommend it (especially if you are at all interested in what our life here in China is like.) In fact, I wish I could have read this book before we came to China, but it wasn’t published until 2006. (Although I…
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I just finished Yann Martell’s novel, The Life of Pi. I was pleasantly surprised by the book. I knew about the storyline, i.e. an Indian boy is stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific with a Royal Bengal tiger, but as I started reading it I wasn’t too convinced it would hold my interest for…
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Well, since we’ve been busy I haven’t been able to make any kind of comments or give analysis on the LAST book of the great Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And since I was so adamant about other people not spoiling the fun, I want to be careful that I do…
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It has arrived! Christa is reading now, Todd’s on deck…
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Now I know I am not the most conscientious blogger when it comes to "spoiling" the plot/surprises of various books and movies. In the past I have "goofed" a few times in this regard by giving away various plot details and surprises for new readers/viewers. (Sorry, Jason.) I have let information slip out onto the…
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Been reading an author from a different "strain" of American Protestantism from my own. The book is called Christianity for the Rest of Us by Diane Butler Bass. It’s sometimes very refreshing to get a different perspective on the Church and where it is headed (even if the views are not drastically different from my…
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