October 2011
1 post
Many reviews coming soon
I have 7, yes 7, reviews coming soon. When I have a few hours free I’ll update. Hint: sic-fi / one book on local missions.
September 2011
1 post
2 book reviews in 1
last week I breezed through “Zero” by Charles Seife. After reading “Here’s Looking at Euclid”, this book was a little repetitive. I’m not sure which came out first, but they have an amazing amount of similar content. Not word for word, but the paragraphs are structured strangely similarly (say that 10 times fast).
It was the history of Zero, but also the...
August 2011
20 posts
Here's Looking at Euclid
I just finished Here’s Looking at Euclid by Alex Bellos. It was…in a word…great!
It’s a short history and explanation of most of the fields that comprise ancient and modern math. I’m not much of a Math guy. It was my worst subject in school, except for Geometry which I loved. But this book got me really interested in exploring it a bit further. It made Math...
When You Are Engulfed In Flames: David Sedaris
So…I’m supposed to stick to the classics. But I’m figuring out you really have to be in the mood and you cannot, under any circumstances, visit a book store, Goodreads.com, or a Library. There are just too many awesome books out there. So…I’m giving myself leniency. I’ve put aside Oliver Twist for a little while and am following my curiosity wherever it may...
There Is A God
I just finished ‘There Is A God” by Antony Flew, a world renowned atheist that converted to Theism in 2004. He’s the studly man in the picture above.
This book was pretty good, though not a real light read. It is written in two parts: My Denial of the Divine, and My Discovery of the Divine.
Don’t read to much into Theism. Flew does not believe in the Christian God...
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C. S. Lewis had a rule. For every 2 or 3 new books you read, read a very old book.
Viola…a ton of pre 1923 books. You can get lost here for days…My rule is Download 5, Read 5, Repeat. That way you don’t spend more time personalizing the Kindle than you do actually reading the Kindle.
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I can’t read with music on…and this is...
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
I’m still working on Oliver Twist, but tend to read a few books at a time. I started George Johnson’s The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments a few days ago. It’s a quick read at, you guessed it, 10 short chapters.
It was…ok. Johnson is apparently a seasoned and well known science writer, but I couldn’t gather that from the book. He’s hopped on the bandwagon of...
Goodreads...
A co-worker of mine just introduced me to this web-site. It’s pretty cool. You can create a book shelf of books you’ve read, are reading, want to read, etc. You can see what your friends are reading, recommend and review books….etc.
If nothing else its a great way to keep track of all the books you’ve read (and casually slip that number into conversations to show your...
“And what an excellent example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was....”
– Oliver Twist- Dicken’s
Oliver Twist: Before the Read
I’m rather excited to start this one. I have a little 3 x 5 copy of the book, cloth bound with a fabric place holder and (oddly) an embossment of a ship on the cover. I feel like I’m reading a bartender hand book.
I love Dickens. I recently read “A Tale of Two Cities” and am excited to read something with a little less weight and heaviness. (Not to say the poor...
Pride and Prejudice: Done
I was hoping to have an insightful review to post today, but sadly, I do not. The only thing I can tell you is this:
Don’t read this book unless you are a 16 year old girl with an impressive vocabulary.
100 pages in
I would like to tell you that my suspicions have been proved incorrect and that Pride and Prejudice is a wonderful little read that I would highly recommend to others…but I can’t.
This book so far is like an uncensured episode of The View where all the ladies are sleep deprived and on their 5th gin and tonic.
Apparently the triteness and pettiness of 7th grade girls was nurtured and...
Week 1- Pride and Prejudice (Before the read)
Don Quixote- Saving it for the end…it’s intimidating to hold a book that long in your hand. Plus…I’ve tried and failed in the past to read it.
The Pilgrim’s Progress and Gulliver’s Travels- Read them
So, I guess that means I start with Pride and Prejudice.
And I must be honest…I really want to get this one out of the way. Granted, I’ve never...
1 book every week...
I’ve decided to read one book a week…every week, for a whole year. I figure, I read a book every week or two anyway. So, instead of wasting a lot of thought on physics and the histories of the sciences…I should finally get around to reading the classics. Because some on the list below are extremely long (Don Quixote), and some are short (like Kafka) the goal will actually be to...
Past and Future Grace
Silent in the evening night
But one lone bird recalls the light
Calls and sings the joys of day
Now two have joined the dark refrain
Now three, now four, then five, then eight
All mutter light for which they wait
So past providence can retain
A joy that mocks all present pain
These same birds will slumber well
and sink beneath the twilight swell
And wake before the suns first beams
to...
A Key to Ministry
1. If you’re not consistently with the people you are leading, then ministry becomes all about strategy. The life and ministry God has called you to can quickly turn into a game of chess, with the people used to test your strategic insight. Much can be gained from simply pouring into people the vision God has given us, such as:
Passion, love for people that leads to perseverance, a...
“A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a...”
– George MacDonald
First Post
I can never keep up with blogs…the page is so large and the words seem so small, thus the feeling I never write often or long enough. Let’s try this thing out