Kevin's Watch

Finally finished "A Severe Mercy"... (had to return it somewhere in-between) not sure what to start / resume next.


Edit: Formatting my italics!

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Stephen King's latest book of short(er) stories.

name escapes me at the moment.

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Explorations in Theology Vol. I: The Word Made Flesh by H. U. von Balthasar

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Explorations in Theology Vol. I: The Word Made Flesh by H. U. von Balthasar

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.

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Orlion wrote:

Wosbald wrote:
Explorations in Theology Vol. I: The Word Made Flesh by H. U. von Balthasar

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.

This is simply a set (5 vols) of essays, each grouped around a theme, rather than a more unified large-scale dogmatics.

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Explorations in Theology Vol. II: Spouse of the Word by H. U. von Balthasar

I've been reading Paul Kingsnorth's "The Wake." I recommend it, it's good reading.

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.

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro.

spoiler alert: it was William Shakespeare

The Empty Throne, book 8 of Cornwell's Saxon Chronicles.

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Rainn Wilson - the Bassoon King

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!

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Explorations in Theology Vol. III: Creator Spirit by H. U. von Balthasar

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.

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Explorations in Theology Vol. IV: Spirit and Institution by H. U. von Balthasar

Oh, I missed one here...before I started reading the book I'm currently reading, I read Bill Bryson's The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Autobiographical work, his usual amusing self, if you like his writing.

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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.

Read it, it's pretty amusing. I generally enjoy his travel books.

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Warriors of the Storm, book 9 in Cornwell's Saxon Chronicles.

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Explorations in Theology Vol. V: Man is Created by H. U. von Balthasar