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« Reply #80 on: May 06, 2008, 03:22:09 PM » |
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I found a great used book store in North Raleigh (and it has to be pretty freaking great if it gets me to go to North Raleigh  ). I picked up a couple new (to me) books there: Memoirs of a Geisha: I'm a bit of a Japanophile and I enjoy reading about other cultures, and plus this is a pretty famous book. Interview with the Vampire: I generally dismissed Ann Rice as a gothy weirdo, but a couple co-workers like her books, as does apparently a relative of mine, so I shelled out a couple bucks for this one. I still haven't read Frankenstein which I got a while back, so now that I'm pretty much done with my library books I plan to start on that one and then move through these two. |
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« Reply #81 on: May 06, 2008, 08:44:54 PM » |
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Vlad!, have you tried 2nd Chance Books in North Cary? They're pretty good and probably much closer to you.
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« Reply #82 on: May 06, 2008, 08:53:44 PM » |
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I just reserved a whole lotta books, too bad I'll have to wait at least two weeks to pick them up. Lets see if I can remember..
I reserved Blue Like Jazz, The Jesus I never Knew and More Than a Carpenter. I think there were more, but I cant remember now. Maybe House?
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« Reply #83 on: May 06, 2008, 08:58:34 PM » |
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Generation Change--Zach Hunter
Mission Trip Prep Kit--Kevin Johnson
The Jesus of Suburbia--Mike Erre
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« Reply #84 on: May 06, 2008, 10:08:25 PM » |
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Vlad!, have you tried 2nd Chance Books in North Cary? They're pretty good and probably much closer to you.
Yeah, I've passed them a few times on my way to Umstead, but their hours are not extremely convenient so I haven't given them a try yet. I'll give them a visit sometime this month. |
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« Reply #85 on: May 09, 2008, 04:46:47 PM » |
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Well, More Than A Carpenter came in yesterday. I'm a bit surprised at how small it is, actually.
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« Reply #86 on: May 10, 2008, 03:07:32 PM » |
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I stopped by 2nd Chance books that Danny recommended today. It's a lot larger on the inside than it looks on the outside. Not as large as Edward McKay's off Capitol where I went last weekend, but it's not in Raleigh, which is a plus in my book. I got:
Catch-22, Heller (I have read this book and love it but haven't owned it before now)
American Gods, Gaiman (I've heard lots of good things about this book)
Richard III, Shakespeare (I like Shakespeare's historical works quite a bit, so I'm looking forward to this one)
I need to stop going to bookstores for a while now, since I can't walk out of one without buying something and my to-read queue is getting longer and longer x_x
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« Reply #87 on: May 11, 2008, 09:09:08 PM » |
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How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
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« Reply #88 on: August 24, 2008, 07:33:41 PM » |
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Bob Dylan and Philosophy
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, Daniel J. Levitin
I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter
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« Reply #89 on: August 25, 2008, 07:22:29 AM » |
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« Reply #90 on: August 25, 2008, 09:05:50 AM » |
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Preaching: How to Preach Biblically
Counseling: How to Counsel Biblically
Pastoral Ministry: How to Shepherd Biblically
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« Reply #91 on: September 27, 2008, 07:42:47 PM » |
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, by Vicki Myron.
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« Reply #92 on: October 03, 2008, 08:45:44 AM » |
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it's not really books in the sense of most of this thread, but my wife and I got the devotional Love Dare book that is in the movie Fireproof and are going through it as a devotional together.
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« Reply #93 on: October 16, 2008, 05:33:33 PM » |
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After listening to the All Songs Considered podcast, I bought Tom Moon's book 1,000 Albums to Hear Before You Die.
Edit: reading through it now, going through the library and requesting as many of the albums that I can that I don't already have.
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« Reply #94 on: November 11, 2008, 03:24:38 PM » |
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On the recommendation from a co-worker, I bought Shantaram. How long it will be before I get through my current book queue and actually read it is open to debate (though I'm doing some travel this and next month, so I'll probably burn through a few). |
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« Reply #95 on: November 16, 2008, 09:19:12 PM » |
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« Reply #96 on: December 13, 2008, 05:17:03 PM » |
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received as a gift: I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun
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« Reply #97 on: December 22, 2008, 11:15:50 AM » |
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Know What You Believe--Paul Little
Know Who You Believe--Paul Little
Know Why You Believe--Paul Little
Got for Christmas:
Simple Church--Thom Rainer
Essential Church--Thom Rainer
Cast of Characters--Max Lucado
Death by Love--Mark Driscoll
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« Reply #98 on: December 28, 2008, 10:54:49 AM » |
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« Reply #99 on: January 07, 2009, 09:26:03 AM » |
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An acquaintance sent me two bibles he wasn't using anymore. I like to collect different versions and read/study them.
The MacArthur Daily Bible (NKJV)
Life Application Study Bible (NIV)
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« Reply #100 on: February 12, 2009, 05:00:52 PM » |
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Hot flat and crowded - Thomas Friedman
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
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"There are two ways to have enough, one is to accumulate more and more, the other is to desire less." - G.K. Chesterton
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« Reply #101 on: February 14, 2009, 11:28:16 PM » |
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Vintage Church--Mark Driscoll
Uprising--Erwin McManus
Just Generosity--Ron Sider
can't wait to get past some of my seminary texts so i can read these for 'fun.'
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« Reply #102 on: March 02, 2009, 07:44:02 PM » |
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The Powers That Be by Walter Wink
Yahweh is a Warrior by Millard Lind
The Humanity of God by Karl Barth
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
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« Reply #103 on: April 12, 2009, 04:47:45 PM » |
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Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life, Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt
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« Reply #104 on: April 12, 2009, 08:43:28 PM » |
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Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life, Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt
Hm, sounds introspectively interesting. Also, I totally forgot to record all the books I got from the libriggidyrary yesterday: Against the Fall of Night, Arthur C. Clarke -- Already reviewed by Vlad! the book ninja. Shadows of Death, H.P. Lovecraft -- Read most of these short stories before. Probably won't review in Reading Log. Free for All, Peter Wayner -- The subtitle[1] is "How Linux and the free software movement undercut the high-tech titans", which sounds like a bunch of rah-rah to me because while I love open source and to a lesser extent the free software movement, the amount of undercutting has not exactly been earthshattering. Whether I finish this book depends to a large extent on what the ratio between actual history to wishful thinking is. The Birthday of the World and Other Stories, Ursula K. LeGuin -- LeGuin stands with the masters of science fiction. She identifies herself as a feminist, but hers is a type of feminism that I can get behind: not "rage against the patriarchy" so much as "lets acknowledge our equality and move on". As with Asimov and Clarke her full-length novels and short stories are both masterfully executed, but she is a writer of such diverse interests that I find her story collections to be wonderful simply because I don't think a single narrative is sufficient to contain her creative outbursts. Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins -- Dawkins is known for being above all else the quintessential scientist of the modern age. He was insatiable in knowledge, and showed his intelligence not through impenetrable prose but through his ability to simplify complex subjects to their essence. The question of how life began on earth matters as little to me as anything that happened in the remote past: interesting from a historical or intellectual standpoint but having little bearing on my life as it stands now. However, I like to consider myself a well-educated individual, and I'm willing to be proven wrong in my beliefs both on how life came about (special creation by God) and on how much significance I grant that coming about (not much). [1] This book follows the by now well-established convention of Catchy Phrase: Longer Explanation of What the Catchy Phrase Means. |
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« Reply #105 on: April 13, 2009, 09:00:06 AM » |
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Sonya Hamlin - How To Talk So People Listen: Connecting in Today's Workplace
I had borrowed it from the library to use for my thesis and liked it so much that I found a copy on sale at Borders
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« Reply #106 on: April 18, 2009, 03:13:29 PM » |
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Desiring God--John Piper
The Hole In Our Gospel--Richard Stearns
Spectacular Sins And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ--John Piper
It Comes From Within! The Shocking Truth About What Lurks in the Heart--Andy Stanley
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« Reply #107 on: June 21, 2009, 10:49:04 PM » |
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« Reply #108 on: June 23, 2009, 10:28:37 AM » |
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The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Evangelical Theology - Karl Barth
Another Possible World - Marcella Altheus-Reid
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« Reply #109 on: June 30, 2009, 10:17:08 PM » |
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« Reply #110 on: June 30, 2009, 10:22:43 PM » |
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That sounds potentially interesting. There are really two aspects to game theory that I've seen: one is basically described as "let's use math (primarily statistics) to figure out how to give yourself the upper hand in something that at first glance appears innately balanced", while the second one is more like "here's how to use psychology to pwn someone with your brain". Both of these are, of course, fascinating when explained in chunks small enough for my hyper-short attention span to digest.
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« Reply #111 on: July 03, 2009, 11:24:20 PM » |
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The Myth of Christian Nation--Greg Boyd
In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day--Mark Batterson
Peppermint-filled Pinatas--Eric Bryant
Jesus In the Margins--Rick McKinley
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« Reply #112 on: July 04, 2009, 12:03:40 AM » |
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The Myth of Christian Nation--Greg Boyd
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« Reply #113 on: July 04, 2009, 07:41:13 PM » |
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« Reply #114 on: July 08, 2009, 09:47:28 AM » |
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« Reply #115 on: July 11, 2009, 11:38:53 PM » |
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« Reply #117 on: September 05, 2009, 08:12:19 PM » |
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also read The Joy of Sox. knitting patterns with suggestive names and photographs. could be hot, I guess, in a wooly sort of way.
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« Reply #118 on: September 06, 2009, 06:49:54 AM » |
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The Silmarillion audiobook
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I started listening to it already, but have only gotten as far as the parts that I had already read. it's been good reinforcement. at first I had difficulty with the enunciation and pronunciation of the person reading, but I think I've gotten used to it. not sure yet if I'll be able to get through the stuff I haven't read already. I think I need to see the names spelled out in order for me to remember them. perhaps I'll listen to new stuff with the physical book close at hand. (mainly I listen to audiobooks while knitting or otherwise doing something with my hands.)
also acquired the audiobook of A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson. started listening to that and am enjoying it quite a bit.
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