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I've never read any Jane Austen books and I've never really had a desire to, either...
I'm currently reading "The Holiness of God" by R.C. Sproul. It's pretty much blowing my mind so far, in a good way. Earlier this year I finished The Chronicles of Narnia series. Next on the list is "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" and "Mere Christianity". I want to re-read The Circle Series by Ted Dekker, too.
My New Year's Resolution this year was to read all the books on my bookshelf. Yeah, that hasn't happened, not even close.
I used to read ALL the time in elementary/middle school/high school, not so much anymore, but I do adore reading.
I'm currently reading "The Holiness of God" by R.C. Sproul. It's pretty much blowing my mind so far, in a good way. Earlier this year I finished The Chronicles of Narnia series. Next on the list is "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" and "Mere Christianity". I want to re-read The Circle Series by Ted Dekker, too.
My New Year's Resolution this year was to read all the books on my bookshelf. Yeah, that hasn't happened, not even close.
I used to read ALL the time in elementary/middle school/high school, not so much anymore, but I do adore reading.
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I know Jane Austen isn't for everyone. Most of my friends don't even understand her stuff. But I just like how her characters subtly (or not so subtly) insult each other...it's like...a lady is able to put the smack down without actually using any bad words, and I'm all, YES! I want to be able to do that!
...I like the stories, too...
So anyway, instead of re-reading Emma, I decided to pick up a book called Daughter of Fortune, which has been collecting dust on my bookshelf for a year or two.
...I like the stories, too...
So anyway, instead of re-reading Emma, I decided to pick up a book called Daughter of Fortune, which has been collecting dust on my bookshelf for a year or two.
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My daughter is reading Emma right now. She's 56% through, whatever part that is, lol.
I love the names Dickens chose for his characters. Chuzzlewit? I mean come on people. Haha. Mody Dick is a priceless treasure, to read once. So glad I read it. I love the mood it brings on. I wouldn't read it twice though. My father reads that book every year.
I have War and Peace but keep procrastinating and haven't read it yet. I did read Paradise Lost, and The Brothers Karamozov by Dostoyevsky which was brilliant.
Jane Austen is just a witty, author who pokes fun at the social classes of that era in a very clever way. P&P offers up characters bent toward just about every extreme there is, from the completely shallow and frivolous to the starched Bible thumper. Both of the main characters have many faults, but grow throughout the book to become people that you love. I know several men who enjoyed the book so I know it can't be just a woman thing. Let us know what you think about it, eh?
Wuthering Heights was soooo depressing! I don't understand what anyone sees in any of those characters. Maybe I'm missing something important here, lol.
As for me, I love classics but also enjoy fantasy/science fiction. I really enjoy Brent Weeks (Night Angel Trilogy) and Tolkien which is next on my reading list. I loved Ender's Game, Divergent/Insurgent, The Hunger Games (don't hate!) and CS. Lewis' sci-fi trilogy. For spiritual growth I've enjoyed The Prodigal God, Explicit Gospel, and I'm now reading The Spiritual Disciplines by Donald Whitney.
I love the names Dickens chose for his characters. Chuzzlewit? I mean come on people. Haha. Mody Dick is a priceless treasure, to read once. So glad I read it. I love the mood it brings on. I wouldn't read it twice though. My father reads that book every year.
I have War and Peace but keep procrastinating and haven't read it yet. I did read Paradise Lost, and The Brothers Karamozov by Dostoyevsky which was brilliant.
Jane Austen is just a witty, author who pokes fun at the social classes of that era in a very clever way. P&P offers up characters bent toward just about every extreme there is, from the completely shallow and frivolous to the starched Bible thumper. Both of the main characters have many faults, but grow throughout the book to become people that you love. I know several men who enjoyed the book so I know it can't be just a woman thing. Let us know what you think about it, eh?
Wuthering Heights was soooo depressing! I don't understand what anyone sees in any of those characters.
Maybe I'm missing something important here, lol.As for me, I love classics but also enjoy fantasy/science fiction. I really enjoy Brent Weeks (Night Angel Trilogy) and Tolkien which is next on my reading list. I loved Ender's Game, Divergent/Insurgent, The Hunger Games (don't hate!) and CS. Lewis' sci-fi trilogy. For spiritual growth I've enjoyed The Prodigal God, Explicit Gospel, and I'm now reading The Spiritual Disciplines by Donald Whitney.
That book is so long, you could read two or three others in the same time frame. The kindle I had it on is dead and I didn't sync it so I need to fix the screen (which I'm doing like... this week probably). I don't feel like finding what page I was on.
And Queeequeg is like... awesome.
Also reminds me of this gem I saw on the sci fi channel. Remove all of the story and all of the literary excellence, and make the ship a nuclear submarine, and you get this:
Such bad science fiction is an art form in itself.
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the Sword of Turth - Wilbur Smith
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Het huis waar jij van hield (the house you loved)
The first one is plain fiction, but it does describe very well the tension between the native African tribes, the Afrikaners (dutch) and the British.
The second one I believe is also fiction, but it could easily have been a true story.It is about a woman writing letters to her husband about the massive changes that was made in France when they decided to tear down streets (and houses with them) to make the new city streets.
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Het huis waar jij van hield (the house you loved)
The first one is plain fiction, but it does describe very well the tension between the native African tribes, the Afrikaners (dutch) and the British.
The second one I believe is also fiction, but it could easily have been a true story.It is about a woman writing letters to her husband about the massive changes that was made in France when they decided to tear down streets (and houses with them) to make the new city streets.
Yeah it's a loooong book... but I agree about Queequeg! You wanna know what book I never want to read again? The Last of the Mohicans. Chapters and chapters describing the TREES. Ugh. I love books for their characters. I fall in love with people, not story lines or descriptions... so for a book to capture me it has to have deep and lovable characters.
You are a person after my own heart, you love Dickens, too. When I read War and Peace it seemed to me to be showing that what people in a country believe in does have power, even though it results in the Napoleons of our world. No one else sees that in this book, I wish you would tell me what you make of it. If you find the biography of Tolstoy it will make the books he wrote come alive better.
Just started reading (it's a long title) - How can it be all right When everything is all wrong' Lewis Smedes. But the sub title is ' The book that changed my life by Rob Parsons.
I know its slightly confusing. It was a book that was out of print, but when parsons read it years ago it as he says changed his life.. He was a successful lawyer, husband/father helped lead a growing church and yet things where falling apart - anyhow don't want to go into detail.. I'm only in chapter 2.. And to be honest I think this is a book I think is gonna change my life aswell.
Only once in a while do you pick up a book that has a real impact on your walk..for me I think this is going to be one of them.
I'll let you know when I finish it.
I know its slightly confusing. It was a book that was out of print, but when parsons read it years ago it as he says changed his life.. He was a successful lawyer, husband/father helped lead a growing church and yet things where falling apart - anyhow don't want to go into detail.. I'm only in chapter 2.. And to be honest I think this is a book I think is gonna change my life aswell.
Only once in a while do you pick up a book that has a real impact on your walk..for me I think this is going to be one of them.
I'll let you know when I finish it.
The books that changed my life were several called Journey through the Torah Class for Adults by Tom Bradford and Kate Etue. You can buy them for kindle and on print, but I read them on the net at a website called torahclass.
Tom spent eight years after he retired early in the holy land studying. These classes take you through the first books of the bible, but it adds so much information about the people the bible mentions that archeology and understanding ancient language has uncovered. It is like reading a combination scripture, novel, and history all combined.
Tom spent eight years after he retired early in the holy land studying. These classes take you through the first books of the bible, but it adds so much information about the people the bible mentions that archeology and understanding ancient language has uncovered. It is like reading a combination scripture, novel, and history all combined.
Oh for Tree's sake,
yet ya kept readin it didn't ya.
Chapter after Chapter, (can I say it again) after Chapter
yet ya kept readin it didn't ya.
Chapter after Chapter, (can I say it again
) after Chapter
AND... I am getting better about putting a book down if I don't like it. Life is TOO SHORT to keep on reading books that aren't any good. It's just not fair to all the good books out there waiting to be devoured!
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It seems like there's always a book out there that I want. Right now I'm working through Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity by Larry W. Hurtado, and Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament's Christology of Divine Identity.
This reminds me..
I had a major craving yesterday to re-read one of my favorites, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. I hadn't read it since high school and I was itching to dive back into it. I went to my bookshelf, searched unsuccessfully for a few minutes, only to remember that I loaned it to someone for her 12th grade english course and she never gave it back.
*frustrated grumble*
I had a major craving yesterday to re-read one of my favorites, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. I hadn't read it since high school and I was itching to dive back into it. I went to my bookshelf, searched unsuccessfully for a few minutes, only to remember that I loaned it to someone for her 12th grade english course and she never gave it back.
*frustrated grumble*