Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Books for Sale
A local bookstore has few books for sale.
There’s quite a selection here. If you’re interested in any of the titles, I’ll let you know where to find them…
This week our sale cart is featuring titles concerning Islam and/or events in the Mideast. All titles listed below will recieve a 50% discount at the cash register:
The [...]
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Solomon on Wealth
Has anybody read this book?
I would read it but I’m inclined to avoid advice from political leaders whose states collapsed into civil war immediately after they left office.
In this case, at least according to I Kings 12, the civil war was due to Solomon’s unbearable tax policies.
New book available at the HUB: Solomon on Wealth: [...]
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
A Year of Living Biblically
A.J. Jacobs is the author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possibly.
Alternet has a review here.
We’ve all heard the premise before: An agnostic wishes to discredit the Bible and embarks on an effort to disprove its teachings. As a result, the agnostic comes [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in Bible, books, religion by ME
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Kiddie Lit
Children’s Books Not recommended by the National Library Association
Valuable Protein and Other Nutritional Benefits of Things from Your Nose
The Hardy Boys, the Bobsey Twins, and the Vice Squad
The Tickling Babysitter
A Pictoral History of Circus Geek Suicides
Charles Manson Bedtime Stories
Daddy Loses His Job and Finds the Bottle
Babar Becomes a Piano
Controlling the Playground: Respect through Fear
Curious George [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in books by ME
Monday, March 5th, 2007
A Long Way Gone
Check out Andrew Dorsey’s review of “A Long Way Gone”, the first hand the story of Ishmael Beah, a boy-soldier in Africa.
For too long, the civil wars in Africa and in other parts of the developing world have been waged on the backs of children who are forced to grow up too quick. Beah [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Africa, books, war by ME
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
I’ve Been Booked
This list was a bit easier than the list I did after some doofus in Texas tagged me.
Reading blogs is good for you but reading books is much better.
One book that changed your life: The Source, James A. Michener. I read several of Michener’s novels when I was in the navy; after reading [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Andy Olree, books by ME
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
On Reading Angels and Demons and Blue Like Jazz in the Same Week
I have now repeated the cliché of reading The Da Vinci Code on an airplane by finishing Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons on my flight to Philadelphia on Monday.
Several of my friends insisted that I needed to read A&D even before I had started reading The Da Vinci Code earlier in this year. I [...]
12 Comments » - Posted in books, religion by ME
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
So Dark the Con of Man
OK, I admit it, I liked The Da Vinci Code and I am reading Angels and Demons right now. But I’m still not sure if I fully appreciate what the fuss is all about.
I suspect that the work-up about the book and upcoming movie stems from the fact that both have the potential for confusing [...]
24 Comments » - Posted in Da Vinci Code, books by ME
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
The Reading List
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read” - Groucho Marx
Ray Muncy, my first department chair, once encouraged me to read a book a week. I’m sure he thought that this was a reasonable suggestion for a first-year teacher who was supposed to [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Da Vinci Code, books, soccer by ME
Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
Be a Scrooge
I’ve always felt bad for Ebenezer Scrooge. His last his name gets thrown around a lot this time of year as a general epithet for anyone who hates Christmas. The irony of course is that Ebenezer turned out to be a pretty good guy.
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely [...]
