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03-03-2015, 06:18 PM #551Senior Member
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You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church And Rethinking Faith by David Kinsman. The title pretty much captures the book. It's a discussion of the various reasons that the Christian churches are losing traction among those younger than 30. Pretty interesting stuff, if you are at all concerned about the future. Its concepts pertain to almost any mainstream western faith, not just Christian denominations.
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03-04-2015, 02:40 AM #552Senior Member
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Haroun And The Sea Of Stories by Salman Rushdie. Just finished this visit to a fantastic world as seen through the eyes of a child who must help his father to regain the gift of storytelling. It has an Alice in Wonderland type of feeling, and touches on the struggle between light and darkness, in subtle reflections of present time situations in the world.
Arise, awake, and learn by approaching the exalted ones,
for that path is sharp as a razor’s edge, impassable,
and hard to go by, say the wise. Katha Upanishad – 1.3.14
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03-04-2015, 05:08 AM #553what Dad calls me
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. Twain
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03-06-2015, 04:47 AM #554Senior Member
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"Cane and Abe" by James Grippando. Fiction book set in the Florida Everglades. A blind selection from the library based on the title alone.
It was...ok.
I found the main character frustratingly dumb.
I got exactly what I paid for.
Maybe I'll go back to non fiction for my next one.
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Chris Kyle: American Sniper
"Cheap Tools Is Misplaced Economy. Always buy the best and highest grade of razors, hones and strops. Then you are prepared to do the best work."
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03-11-2015, 01:16 PM #556Incidere in dimidium
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Just finished "Hand for a Hand" by T. Frank Muir. It is a kind of Rankin-esque crime novel set in St Andrews, where I lived for six years. There's something special about reading novels set in places one knows well.
It was in original condition, faded red, well-worn, but nice.
This was and still is my favorite combination; beautiful, original, and worn.
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03-12-2015, 05:39 PM #557I got this . . .
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Not something I am currently reading, but Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, has succumbed to his Alzheimer's at age 66. Such a loss . . .
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03-31-2015, 01:06 AM #558Senior Member
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After seeing Cangooner's suggestion, I too picked up "Hand for a Hand" by T. Frank Muir online at the local library.
A good read. (thank you Sir
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Now I want to visit St Andrews.
Time for the next book in the series...Cangooner likes this.
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03-31-2015, 01:14 AM #559Know thyself
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Currently finishing up Dust, which is the third book in the Wool trilogy. Planning on Neverwhere next.
I was reading "When the River's Run Dry," but couldn't make it past the first third. It's about the depletion of the world's freshwater in rivers and underground reserves, and I just found it so boring. And the lack of citations, not to mention depth, really turns me off.
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04-01-2015, 09:05 PM #560Senior Member
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I have started "The silence of lambs " I saw the film but only now I read the book of "hannibal" but in this days I don't read because I must read a manual for use the program matlab
Geezer likes this."Consider well the seed that gave your birth: you were not made to lives as brutes,but to following virtue and knoweledge"
Dante's The Divine Comedy:Inferno XXVI.
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