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« Reply #780 on: July 05, 2011, 07:28:PM » |
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White Fang
One of my favorites. I know Jack London wasn't a Christian, but I can't help reading it as a tale of redemption through love. I just finished a bunch of Flannery O'Connor short stories and "The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals" by John Fitchen. Now I'm working my way through "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter. I'm not a big fan of Jack London personally either, but "White Fang" and "Call of the Wild" are two of my favorite books of all time, and is what first hooked me into realizing literature and reading in general wasn't a waste of time for dorks. I have read a few of the smaller children a children's version of call of the wild, and they enjoyed it a lot. I prefer White Fang, though I do not consider either book as one of my favourites. |
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« Reply #781 on: July 06, 2011, 04:09:PM » |
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
Been meaning to read some of the classics this summer.
I read that 5 or so years ago. There's one scene in particular that I found screamingly funny, although whether it was intentional or not, I don't know. Anyhoo, it's where they hook up an electric current to the metal stairs to keep savages (?) of some kind from entering the sub. And the mad Scotsman (Irishman? I forget) got so worked up that he tried going up the stairs to fight them and kept getting shocked. I don't know why, but that struck me as particularly funny. Good book. |
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Sometimes the Crunchies are right....
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« Reply #782 on: July 08, 2011, 10:36:AM » |
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I've just finished this morning Getting Things Done by David Allen ~ mostly listened to it as an audio book but I also have it on my Nook Color to review some sections.
For the drive back to Pullman today I'll start Sonderling: The Franz Jaegerstatter Story by James F. Sinnott on audio book. Jagerstadter was Catholic and an Austrian farmer who refused to serve in Hitler's army. He was killed by the Nazis in 1943 and beatified in October 2007.
This trip I also started a hard copy read of Fr. Cekada's Work of Human Hands: A Theological Critique of the Mass of Paul VI and hope to finish that in a timely manner (with the nice weather I tend to zone into an audio book and go for a bike ride or otherwise putter around outside than to sit down and read something).
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« Reply #783 on: July 08, 2011, 02:04:PM » |
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I've just finished this morning Getting Things Done by David Allen ~ mostly listened to it as an audio book but I also have it on my Nook Color to review some sections.
For the drive back to Pullman today I'll start Sonderling: The Franz Jaegerstatter Story by James F. Sinnott on audio book. Jagerstadter was Catholic and an Austrian farmer who refused to serve in Hitler's army. He was killed by the Nazis in 1943 and beatified in October 2007.
This trip I also started a hard copy read of Fr. Cekada's Work of Human Hands: A Theological Critique of the Mass of Paul VI and hope to finish that in a timely manner (with the nice weather I tend to zone into an audio book and go for a bike ride or otherwise putter around outside than to sit down and read something).
How was it? Currently, I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov |
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I ground my faith upon Jesus Christ, and by Him I steadfastly believe to be saved, as is taught in the Catholic Church through all Christendom, and promised to remain with Her unto the world's end, and hell gates shall not prevail against it: and by God's assistance I mean to live and die in the same faith; for if an angel come from heaven, and preach any other doctrine than we have received, the Apostle biddeth us not to believe him. Therefore, if I should follow your doctrine, I should disobey the Apostle's commandment.
-St. Margaret Clitherow, while in prison
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« Reply #784 on: July 08, 2011, 02:08:PM » |
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Currently, I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov
I just finished that one not too long ago. Great book! It was the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation - I still think they do an awesome job. |
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Pax Christi in Regno Christi.
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« Reply #785 on: July 08, 2011, 02:37:PM » |
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I've just finished this morning Getting Things Done by David Allen ~ mostly listened to it as an audio book but I also have it on my Nook Color to review some sections.
How was it? Currently, I'm reading The Brothers KaramazovI really enjoyed GTD, and it's been well reviewed by James02 and others here. Rosarium used his format while organizing his living space. I think I've read (or listened to) most of the major time or space organizing books out there, yet my calendar and space are often in states of chaos and disheaval ;D Perhaps I approached this book with more motivaton than in the past, but it takes a direct, simple, straightforward (and flexible) approach for organizing one's schedule, information, and space in an integrated manner that I found both compeling and useful, and have already implimented (and maintained, that is usually the downfall) the process. At the end Mr. Allen suggestes rereading the book or reviewing its key concepts in a few months, as a type of refresher and personal audit. I've already made an "action list" item for that. |
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« Reply #786 on: July 08, 2011, 03:40:PM » |
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Currently, I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov
Yay! Which translation? |
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« Reply #787 on: July 09, 2011, 02:25:PM » |
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Last Train to Paradise..... its about the Overseas Railroad connecting the mainland to Key West.... what a great read!
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« Reply #788 on: July 12, 2011, 12:22:PM » |
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"Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin.
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"THE LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 26:1)
"And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." — Clement, bishop of Rome
"I love truth," says he, "and not sects. I am sometimes a peripatetic, a stoic, or an academician, and often none of them; but—always a Christian. To philosophise is to love wisdom; and the true wisdom is Jesus Christ. Let us read the historians, the poets, and the philosophers; but let us have in our hearts the gospel of Jesus Christ, in which alone is perfect wisdom and perfect happiness." — Petrarch
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« Reply #789 on: July 12, 2011, 01:22:PM » |
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"Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin.
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Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur,
Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur.
Ad mortem festinamus; peccare desistamus.
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