Finally finished "A Severe Mercy"... (had to return it somewhere in-between) not sure what to start / resume next.
Edit: Formatting my italics!
What are you reading in general?
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Linna Heartbooger
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"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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Orlion
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Now, is this a new set of "Blank" in Theology? I know that I could just look at previous posts, but that would not be conducive to conversation.Wosbald wrote:+JMJ+
Explorations in Theology Vol. I: The Word Made Flesh by H. U. von Balthasar
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
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Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
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This is simply a set (5 vols) of essays, each grouped around a theme, rather than a more unified large-scale dogmatics.Orlion wrote:Now, is this a new set of "Blank" in Theology? I know that I could just look at previous posts, but that would not be conducive to conversation.Wosbald wrote:
Explorations in Theology Vol. I: The Word Made Flesh by H. U. von Balthasar
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one of the books Julie gave me for Christmas. really well done, the format makes it easy to browse or read from front to back. so well done that Julie has asked to look at it to learn something of the author that both Stephen King and Sgt. Null list as a favorite.
Lenin, Marx
Marx, Lennon
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Marx, Lennon
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro.
spoiler alert: it was William Shakespeare
spoiler alert: it was William Shakespeare
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
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Am about to start Haruki Murakami's celebrated (in some quaters) trilogy IQ84. If it turns out to be good enough, or if any interest is expressed I'll start a thread to discuss or review it - but given that one negative review described it as 1000 stupefying uneventful pages, this may be the last you ever hear of the book! 
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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A Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary by Caspar Henderson.
Gosh, how special is this book! In the blurb it is described as an "utterly extraordinary book. A glorious genre-bending grimoire" and boy does it do what it says on the tin. Henderson has laid his book out in alphabetized sequence, taking for each letter one of the animal worlds more 'odball' charachters, but he simply refuses to be kept in any way 'in the box'. With copious marginal notes on any obscure reference that doesn't sit well within the text proper, he still manages to spin off in any direction he chooses and at any point. The result is 20% highly entertaining zoology with a pot-boiler of anthropology, philosophy. history, art and science........the list goes on, yet somehow the whole hangs together, and magically so. Soft reading designed to make you feel better about being human, better about being in the world and better about being yourself without ever trying to do so.
Gosh, how special is this book! In the blurb it is described as an "utterly extraordinary book. A glorious genre-bending grimoire" and boy does it do what it says on the tin. Henderson has laid his book out in alphabetized sequence, taking for each letter one of the animal worlds more 'odball' charachters, but he simply refuses to be kept in any way 'in the box'. With copious marginal notes on any obscure reference that doesn't sit well within the text proper, he still manages to spin off in any direction he chooses and at any point. The result is 20% highly entertaining zoology with a pot-boiler of anthropology, philosophy. history, art and science........the list goes on, yet somehow the whole hangs together, and magically so. Soft reading designed to make you feel better about being human, better about being in the world and better about being yourself without ever trying to do so.
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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peter
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Enjoyed his Short History of Nearly Everything, but never read anything else by him Av. Notes from a Small Island has been on my pending list for ages.
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard