Have You Read a Book Yet This Year?
“A week is plenty of time to have finished, or at least to have begun, a new book. Of course it’s also plenty of time to have binged a few series on Netflix or to have spent several evenings mindlessly scrolling through the endless dopamine-stimulating social networks” - Challies
Over the last two weeks I have read two new astronomy textbooks I am using for my classes, and made reading question guides for each chapter. Does that count Mr. Challies?
Does SharperIron count as a “dopamine-stimulating social network”?
Counting the number of books you read is middlebrow (as is much of Challies’ content). And I intend that term with a faint whiff of scorn.
How about just reading a few books of excellent quality during the year and thinking about them deeply?
I’ve finished Soul Repair by Jeff VanVonderen, read Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow, and have a slew of others to read. Do I get a prize? :D
"Our task today is to tell people — who no longer know what sin is...no longer see themselves as sinners, and no longer have room for these categories — that Christ died for sins of which they do not think they’re guilty." - David Wells
[Kevin Miller]Does SharperIron count as a “dopamine-stimulating social network”?
For me, it’s not usually dopamine.
Anyway, books: I’m roughly half way through three….
C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain
Harold m. Schulweis For Those Who Can’t Believe (Basically Reform Juadiasm Apologetics, in connection with conversations with a Jewish friend. It’s actually a fascinating, sometimes very disturbing, book.)
Dean Taylor The Thriving Church (This is kind of an introduction to church life, an exposition of Ephesians 4. So far, I’d say best for new members class or deacon board or adult SS — assuming you’re not in a location with a large number of Bible college grads, who should already know all of this… but maybe they don’t anymore.)
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Well, I read Strange Planet so far
It’s kind of like philosophy
Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3
The Meaning of Marriage-Keller
Up From Slavery-Washington
I cheated and listened to every one of them though. I’m about half way through, “The Souls of Black Folk” right now but haven’t read any in several days. Need to get back at it.
I have finished reading 3 books of the Bible: James, 1 Thessalonians, and Job. I’m also more than halfway done with reading Proverbs and Matthew.
Of other books, I have read 45 pages of The Beauty of Holiness: A Guide to Biblical Worship by Michael P.V. Barrett.
[josh p]Dombey and Son-Dickens
Dombey is an incredible story. I’ve listened to it at least twice. Really goes after pride, humility (humiliation), and repentance and redemption. Some of Dickens’ most memorable characters,too. I like all Dickens, but this is one of the best. (Bleak House number 1)
Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3
[Don Johnson]Dombey is an incredible story. I’ve listened to it at least twice. Really goes after pride, humility (humiliation), and repentance and redemption. Some of Dickens’ most memorable characters,too. I like all Dickens, but this is one of the best. (Bleak House number 1)
Anyone who has ever tangled with govt bureaucracy gains a deep appreciation for Bleak House.
[Don Johnson]Dombey is an incredible story. I’ve listened to it at least twice. Really goes after pride, humility (humiliation), and repentance and redemption. Some of Dickens’ most memorable characters,too. I like all Dickens, but this is one of the best. (Bleak House number 1)
Dickens is probably my favorite secular author next to Solzhenitsyn. I have read all of his major novels except Martin Chuzzelwit and Edwin Drood. The thing about Dombey that I liked is that he didn’t overdo the father’s repentance. His pride brought about his own ruin and he knew it so he tried to rectify it but I didn’t get the impression that he was somehow now a perfect man.
[Andrew K]Anyone who has ever tangled with govt bureaucracy gains a deep appreciation for Bleak House.
Or who has ever been involved in a car accident law suit. I’m four years in and the person drove in our lane and knocked us down an embankment. I now refer to it as Jamdyce and Jamdyce.
[josh p]Did you get sent to the Circumlocution Office (Little Dorrit)? I also loved that one. :DOr who has ever been involved in a car accident law suit. I’m four years in and the person drove in our lane and knocked us down an embankment. I now refer to it as Jamdyce and Jamdyce.
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