#184793 - 2008-09-10 13:38:55
Re: Whatcha readin?
[Re: Amelia]
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Oooh, the Last Lecture is an awesome book! I just finished that one a couple of weeks ago. Highly recommend it for EVERYONE!!
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#184824 - 2008-09-10 16:42:28
Re: Whatcha readin?
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To add to Bravus' addendum, I have also started, Intermediate Accounting, Vol.1. It is the textbook for the university course.
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#184853 - 2008-09-10 19:50:01
Re: Whatcha readin?
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Life Without Parole by Rick Fleck.
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#184854 - 2008-09-10 19:56:03
Re: Whatcha readin?
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Life Without Parole by Rick Fleck. OOOooo I gotta tell you, we sold out of that book at our Campmeeting. Many people around here know him and were interested in his story. Let me know what you think of it!
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A heart set on love will do no wrong- Confucius
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. Isaiah 32:17
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#184855 - 2008-09-10 19:58:54
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I think the book is awesome. We read the book for worship with our daughter. She also loved it.
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"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
John F Kennedy
"Government is the enemy, until you need a friend".
Bill Cohen
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Earl Warren
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#188064 - 2008-09-23 15:43:03
Re: Whatcha readin?
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My son and I just finished "The Rise and Fall of the Kidsborian Empire" by Marshal Younger. Those Kidsboro books are sooooo cool!
Okay, based on your recommendation, I just bought this book to give to my granddaughter for her 12th birthday. Did I do wrong?? (After all, it IS fiction.)
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#188066 - 2008-09-23 15:55:29
Re: Whatcha readin?
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Well, I have to admit I read one book of fiction each month, for the book club to which I belong. [We're all middle-aged Adventists who grew up attending SDA schools where fiction was not taught, so we're trying to catch up on some of the classics.]
Last month it was The Heart of the Matter, by Graham Greene. An interesting story set during WWII in Sierra Leone, where the hero is an Englishman living there on assignment as a policeman for the government. Several of the subplots have to do with morality and what one must do and how to live in order to make another person happy.
But a book I'm reading for fun is Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert. A nonfiction semi-journal of Gilbert's life after her divorce -- an upbeat account, not morose in any way. I'm now enjoying her trip to Italy, all alone, learning how to use her minimal grasp of the Italian language, and how the sightseeing she's doing is affecting her life. She does very well on her own (which I wouldn't be able to do) but starts to fall apart emotionally when her sister comes from New York to spend some time with her. I haven't finished it yet, but it provides some interesting "travelogue" reading in the evenings before sleep.
I'm still reading the Bible through, underlining and carefully studying as I go, in The New Living Translation. [Trouble is, with this, I have to read sitting at my desk where I can do the underlining as I go and where I can stay awake while reading! So it's going slower than the books I read in bed.]
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#188067 - 2008-09-23 15:59:11
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In the interests of full disclosure I should add that I'm also reading 'The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes'.  OOooohhh! My boys both loved Calvin and Hobbes! Is that a new book? Maybe I should buy it for them.
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