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U2 and Philosophy. (part of the pop culture and philosophy series.)
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« Reply #41 on: February 04, 2007, 06:05:53 PM » |
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"Children of Men". My daughter bled on it in the bookstore, so I bought it. I hope it's good.
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Enjoy our pub"God's mane was not abused even once." -Thomas Carder, reviewing "UP" (This guy must really be into Narnia) |
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« Reply #42 on: February 04, 2007, 08:55:38 PM » |
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Hmm, that's a tactic I never tried as a child: get some bodily fluids on the thing I want.
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« Reply #43 on: February 04, 2007, 08:57:02 PM » |
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Hmm, that's a tactic I never tried as a child: get some bodily fluids on the thing I want.
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« Reply #44 on: April 08, 2007, 04:13:34 PM » |
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Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Alice In Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
Existential Joss Whedon: Evil And Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, by J. Douglas Rabb
Traveling Solo, 5th: Advice and Ideas for More than 250 Great Vacations, by Eleanor Berman
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« Reply #45 on: April 09, 2007, 08:20:55 AM » |
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Preordered The Children of Húrin on Amazon. I know that I expressed skepticism regarding this book, but come on--how could I not be all over this? |
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« Reply #46 on: April 09, 2007, 09:40:28 AM » |
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Library Run:
Talk, Talk (T.C. Boyle)
Magic Street (Orson Scott Card)
Mayflower: A story of courage, community and war (Nathanial Philbrick)
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« Reply #47 on: August 01, 2007, 02:58:13 PM » |
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Still Life With Chickens, Catherine Goldhammer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
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« Reply #48 on: September 02, 2007, 02:04:11 AM » |
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A Smart Girl's Guide to Starting Middle School: Everything You Need to Know About Juggling More Homework, More Teachers, and More Friends (American Girl Library) (for my younger sis) (but I did read bits of it, haha.) say, anybody here on shelfari.com? I just joined and am finding it rather fun. |
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« Reply #49 on: September 02, 2007, 08:57:44 AM » |
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Shelfari looks similar to another service I remember seeing (though I don't remember the name of it offhand). Lately the " Library 2.0" services have been taking off. |
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« Reply #50 on: September 07, 2007, 01:48:17 PM » |
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Why Mike's Not a Christian
Under the Overpass
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« Reply #51 on: September 25, 2007, 07:09:39 PM » |
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I bought John Grisham's new book today. No idea what it's about, but I've read all of his, so, you know.
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« Reply #52 on: September 28, 2007, 02:35:28 PM » |
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I bought John Grisham's new book today. No idea what it's about, but I've read all of his, so, you know.
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« Reply #53 on: September 29, 2007, 05:35:10 PM » |
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I saw that in Hastings the other day and wondered what it was about. It looked fairly interesting.
I liked it better than his other football book, Bleachers. Even though I keep up with all his detours, I'm always anxious for him to get back to legal thrillers. But I rather liked this one. |
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« Reply #54 on: October 09, 2007, 07:49:25 PM » |
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I Am America (And So Can You!), Stephen Colbert
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« Reply #55 on: January 23, 2008, 07:45:33 AM » |
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Ordered some new books yesterday...within an hour got a confirmation they had shipped...dang...haha...
(Re)Understanding Prayer--Kyle Lake
The Coffeehouse Gospel--Matthew Turner
Following Jesus--Dave Roberts
Understanding God's Will--Kyle Lake
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« Reply #56 on: January 25, 2008, 10:07:42 PM » |
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Starving Jesus--Craig Goss and JR Mahon
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« Reply #57 on: January 31, 2008, 04:34:38 PM » |
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The Appeal, John Grisham
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« Reply #58 on: January 31, 2008, 08:10:15 PM » |
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got several in the mail this week...
The Christian Culture Survival Guide by Matthew Turner
The Coffeehouse Gospel by Matthew Turner
(Re)Understanding Prayer by Kyle Lake
Understanding God's Will by Kyle Lake
Following Jesus by Dave Roberts
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« Reply #59 on: February 12, 2008, 02:07:00 PM » |
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On the Move--Bono (it's a transcript, with some cool pics, of a speech he gave at the Presidential Prayer Breakfast, pretty cool)
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« Reply #60 on: February 20, 2008, 12:11:35 PM » |
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Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly, edited by Jane Espenson
So Say We All: An Unauthorized Collection of Thoughts and Opinions on Battlestar Galactica, edited by Richard Hatch
House Unauthorized: Vasculitis, Clinic Duty, and Bad Bedside Manner, edited by Leah Wilson
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« Reply #61 on: February 22, 2008, 04:53:24 PM » |
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Wind in the Willows
A Study in Scarlet/The Hound of the Baskervilles
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
and the whole Winnie-the-Pooh collection.
All the nice old style with the leather syle bindings and the hardcover and the pretty gold titles. And all in near mint condition. Yay garage sales!
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« Reply #62 on: February 22, 2008, 09:06:33 PM » |
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C.S. Lewis--The Signature Classics (a 7-in-1)...it will be a while before i get to it though b/c i have too much other stuff to read before i dig into something that big.
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« Reply #63 on: February 23, 2008, 07:01:31 AM » |
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Wind in the Willows
A Study in Scarlet/The Hound of the Baskervilles
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
and the whole Winnie-the-Pooh collection.
All the nice old style with the leather syle bindings and the hardcover and the pretty gold titles. And all in near mint condition. Yay garage sales!
That's a pretty good haul for a garage sale. Winnie the Pooh is great, and I'm a big Sherlock Holmes fan. The Hound of the Baskervilles is especially good. |
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« Reply #64 on: February 27, 2008, 09:06:16 PM » |
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Jesus for President--Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw
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« Reply #65 on: February 27, 2008, 10:19:16 PM » |
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That's a pretty good haul for a garage sale. Winnie the Pooh is great, and I'm a big Sherlock Holmes fan. The Hound of the Baskervilles is especially good.
Yeah, I think I first read the Hound when I was maybe ten or eleven. I stated up way late to finish and then had nightmares for a week. Good reading  The best part of that haul was that all of the books cost $1, exept Winnie the Pooh which was $2 because they got it from England. There were more books too but not as good. AND. I forgot before but we also got most of the Mr. Men collection. My 8yr old sister is reading them now, the only thing she will read other than Dick and Jane. |
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« Reply #66 on: March 01, 2008, 02:10:36 PM » |
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Went to the library today, and got:
Scatterbrain - Larry Niven
Niven is hit-or-miss for me, but I love short stories and enjoy science fiction.
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin
I'm not a big fantasy fan (outside of LotR, of course), but LeGuin is a fantastic writer, so I'm willing to give it a go.
Zakennayo! - The real Japanese you were never taught in school - Philip Cunningham
Part of my ongoing effort to achieve Japanese fluency. I have noticed from watching more Japanese-language stuff on the teevee and listening to Japanese music that a lot of the colloquialisms that are used bear as much resemblance to the formal Japanese I am familiar with as what you might hear on the streets of New York does to the English used four hundred years ago. That was a really long sentence for a pretty weak analogy, so if you didn't read it then I completely understand.
Hacking RSS and Atom - Leslie M. Orchard
I'm not OK with using the word 'Hacking' to sex up what would otherwise be a pretty boring title. However, the table of contents does make it look like this book covers feed aggregation and generation in fairly minute detail, which is what I want. It was published in '05, meaning that it's a toss-up as to whether it has useful information on Atom 1.0, but even Atom 0.3 stuff should be useful.
As a side note, the West-side Wake County Public Library is a fantastically nice building with rows and rows of modern-looking computers and free wireless access, but their book selection is utter pants. Still, it seems like a nice place to hang out, and it's in Cary (which means wide roads with ample sidewalks, which means that biking there is a real possibility, since it's only like six or seven miles away).
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« Reply #67 on: March 03, 2008, 08:52:41 PM » |
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went on a book buying splurge this weekend when i was out of town...too many of those splurges lately...but all good stuff...haha...
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Radical Reformission--Mark Driscoll
Confessions of a Reformed Rev--Mark Driscoll
Vintage Jesus--Mark Driscoll
Breaking the Missional Code--Ed Stetzer
Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and Yours Can Too--Ed Stetzer
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« Reply #68 on: March 18, 2008, 03:27:23 PM » |
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got three of Kathy Reichs' books with "Bones" in the title. too lazy to get out of this chair to go check which ones exactly.
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« Reply #69 on: March 18, 2008, 07:39:18 PM » |
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A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
I have never read any of the books in this series and I am seriously excited to have been given this book. I will begin it once I finish Byzantium.
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« Reply #70 on: March 18, 2008, 08:23:30 PM » |
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A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
I have never read any of the books in this series and I am seriously excited to have been given this book. I will begin it once I finish Byzantium.
IMO they're not TEH INSTANT WIN the way some people portray the series to be, but especially the first one is acceptably decent. When I was a young lad I read A Wrinkle in Time and loved it, A Wind at the Door and thought it was OK, and about half of A Swiftly Tilting Planet before I got fed up and moved on to better things (this also, interestingly, accurately describes my experience with C.S. Lewis' own attempt at science fiction). As an adult I decided to give it another go, so I read A Wrinkle in Time again, and while it wasn't heinous, I didn't feel as though I had undervalued it the first time through. I didn't bother with the others. |
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« Reply #71 on: March 23, 2008, 06:22:47 PM » |
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Found a used bookstore down in Cary. Picked up the following for a great price:
Bicycling Magazine's Basic Maintenance and Repair
Walden - Thoreau
Frankenstein - Shelley
The first because I like to pretend to be a hardcore cyclist by tinkering with my bike, the second because I love Thoreau and his writing and many of his ideas, and the only copy of Walden I had was borrowed from my mom, and the third because my former roommate said it was pretty good.
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« Reply #72 on: March 23, 2008, 06:48:47 PM » |
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Jesus: An Intimate Portrait of the Man, His Land, and His People--Leith Anderson
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« Reply #73 on: March 23, 2008, 07:53:04 PM » |
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« Reply #74 on: March 23, 2008, 08:01:22 PM » |
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The Wake County Public Library System (OF DOOM) allows lots of books at a time (I don't know the upper limit), but the checkout period is thirty days. Thirty freaking days. When I was a graduate student, you could check out a book for six months for no problem unless someone else put a hold on it. (Undergrads were only allowed three months). You can renew the books, though I don't know how many renewals you're allowed.
I miss the Virginia Tech library. It was awesome. I realize I'm within driving distance of the NCSU, Duke, and UNC-Chapel Hill libraries, but I have the feeling that as a non-student, checking books out gets involved (if indeed you can do so at all).
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« Reply #75 on: March 23, 2008, 09:23:30 PM » |
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The Wake County Public Library System (OF DOOM) allows lots of books at a time (I don't know the upper limit), but the checkout period is thirty days. Thirty freaking days. When I was a graduate student, you could check out a book for six months for no problem unless someone else put a hold on it. (Undergrads were only allowed three months). You can renew the books, though I don't know how many renewals you're allowed.
I miss the Virginia Tech library. It was awesome. I realize I'm within driving distance of the NCSU, Duke, and UNC-Chapel Hill libraries, but I have the feeling that as a non-student, checking books out gets involved (if indeed you can do so at all).
Duke: http://library.duke.edu/services/borrow/privileges.htmlNC State: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/borrow/privileges-list.html#kThere is a fee involved for annual membership. |
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« Reply #76 on: March 24, 2008, 03:08:25 PM » |
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« Reply #77 on: April 19, 2008, 02:08:25 PM » |
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I just started seminary classes, a distance learning type thing, so i got like 8 books in the mail today for the first 3 classes...
Christ Centered Preaching
The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text
The Shape of Practical Theology
Developing A Vision for Ministry in the 21st Century
Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church
The Church In Emerging Culture
Reclaiming the Center
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« Reply #78 on: April 19, 2008, 03:08:08 PM » |
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Went to the library again and got:
The Draco Tavern (Larry Niven)
The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula LeGuin)
Tales from Earthsea (Ursula LeGuin)
UNIX Advanced (Chris Herborth)
Japanese: Traveler's Language Guide
At VT, I could check out books for six months at a time. At the WCPL it's 3 weeks. Still getting used to that.
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The first three books of 'A series of Unfortunate Events', and 'The History of Ancient Israel', actually based on the Bible as well as archaeological findings. Could be very fascinating. It fell out of my bag at my music lesson and the expression on my teachers face was hilarious. I guess its not the kinda thing your average sixteen year old reads  I love my library, but the Gympie Library was better. |
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