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Thanks to family and friends my "Book Wants" list has dropped to zero. There's a few that weren't on my list too, thanks Santa.
Let It Snow by John Green, Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
When I ran away from home as a child, I took a wagon, my sleeping bag and a globe. My mother put this little gift together to remind me of that time.
Here is a scarecrow, lazying about next to Saint Thomas More, here on the ol' bookshelf. I love the quirkiness of it.
Ebay Lot of Gore Vidal Books
(Kalki, Julian, 1876, Lincoln, Williwaw-Three by Gore Vidal,...)
$10 for the Lot
December 12, 2011
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH25
File name: 08_02_006122
Box label: Boston Public Library: Branches (loose items)
Title: Roxbury Crossing Branch. Adults' reading room
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Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.
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Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Reading rooms; Reading; Bookstacks
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British Library book store, Woolwich in south east London, UK. The massive steelwork is a legacy of the building's original purpose of manufacturing armaments. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.
As opposed to going skiing, skating, or engaging in any other wintry sport, I did a bit of reading...
Lighting and post-processing by snbg. Yours truly's role? Pressing a button.
Boatwright Library first floor book stacks during winter break. I love the smell of the books and journals and loved the first section without lights contrasted the back section fully lite.
The Psalms, by Luigi Giussani
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, by John Wesley
The Doors of the Sea: Where was God in the Tsunami?, by David Bentley Hart
Virtuous Passions, by G. Simon Harak, S.J.
Searching for God Knows What, by Donald Miller
The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics, by Hans Frei
The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age, by George Lindbeck
Torture and Eucharist, by William Cavanaugh
Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth-Centure Theology and Philosophy, by Stanley Hauerwas
Heart of the World, Center of the Church: Communio Ecclesiology, Liberalism, and Liberation, by David Schindler
Liberation Theology After the End of History: The Refusal to Cease Suffering, by Daniel M. Bell
Radical Orthodoxy: a new theology, edited by John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, and Graham Ward
Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition: Creation, Covenant, and Participation, edited by James K. A. Smith and James H. Olthuis
I read Giussani's The Psalms (good stuff), and the Radical Orthodoxy reader (mostly good stuff, some seemingly pointless stuff, and some totally outsanding stuff -- see Cavanaugh and Blond's essays).
Talk about late. It took me till April to get this done! The X-Men was a bit of nostalgia that didn't really hold up. Nile Shadows was a great library read which I then found on the discard pile for a buck! Awesome for me, not so great for anyone else on the island who might have wanted to get it out. But that is the rough and tumble world of library shelf space...
Finally got to read The Jewish Messiah which was as uncomfortable and odd as it was brilliant. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varnasi was another stand out in the year's reading.
I'm sort of shocked how short this pile is (partially cause it is very half-assed) but that is probably because of how complicated and varied life got. Some of it for ill, but at least I'm trying to pay attention and trying to deal with it.
I'll try and get my recent reading stack up soon.
British Library book store, Woolwich in south east London, UK. Looking down onto the ground floor. Miles and miles of books. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.
A visit to the public library in Saint Malo: Médiathèque de Saint-Malo, France
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File name: 08_02_005669
Box label: Boston Public Library: Interiors: Unidentified locations/physical plant & machinery/service buildings
Title: Open shelf room
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Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
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Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Bookstacks
Notes: Title from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library.; This room is possibly located in the basement of the McKim building at the Boston Public Library Central Branch.; Image caption: About 3,000 books are placed in this room, under the following classes: Biography, Domestic Science, Economics & Business, Education, Essays, French, Gardening & Agriculture, German, Government, Health, History, Italian, Literary History, Manners & Customs, New Books (non-fiction), Philosophy & Psychology, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Science, Sociology, Spanish, Sports & Amusements, and Travel. The new non-fiction occupies the ranges on the right of the entrance.
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So, Wes pointed out this old photo of my stack of books that I had aspirations of slowly reading my way though. This prompted me to collect a new, more reasonable stack of books that I hope to read in the near future. Of course, I will have purchased more books before I make my way through all of these, which will only expand the stack.
Mark Kurlansky - Salt
Rudolph Chelminski - The Perfectionist
Jeffrey Steingarten - The Man Who Ate Everything
Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential
Harold McGee - The Curious Cook
David Morrell - The Totem
Billy Waugh - Hunting the Jackal
Jeffrey Robinson - The Merger
Gary Berntsen - Jawbreaker
Robert Kaplan - Balkan Ghosts
David McCullough - 1776
Jeff Shaara - Rise to Rebellion
Jeff Shaara - The Glorious Cause
James Clavell - Whirlwind
Tim O'Brien - Going After Cacciato
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Anne Applebaum - Gulag
David McCullough - John Adams
David McCullough - The Great Bridge
Inspired by gem's bookstacks set here's a picture of what I borrowed after my last visit to my local library.
From top to bottom:
Melissa Hill - The last to know I have no idea what this is about but I liked the cover plus it looked new-ish, so I took it.
Stefan Merrill Block - The story of forgetting A story about early-onset Alzheimer's doesn't sound like a happy read, but I quite enjoyed it. Parts of it reminded me of Jonathan Safran Foer's second novel Extremely loud and incredibly close and Margaret Attwood's Blind assassin.
Donna Tartt - The little friend Her second novel after The secret history and just as good. I'm reading it at the moment and I've been totally sucked in already. I can't believe she's only written those two novels so far - I WANT MORE!
Stephenie Meyer - Twlight I wanted to know what all this fuss was about - and now I know. It's an okay-ish book, it's a bit lengthy in places. I didn't leave me gasping for more, I read the summaries of the remaining three books on Wikipedia, that was enough. Not sure if I want to see the movie or not...
Bill Bryson - I'm a stranger here myself I don't think I've read it but it might well be the same book that has been published in the UK as Notes from a big country. But even if it is, I'll gladly read it a second time.
Three books about Patchwork and Quilting I'm currently teaching my self the basics. I've managed two blocks so far, a Nine Patch and a Log Cabin. Not as difficult as I thought they would be and certainly lots of fun. The thin yellow one in the middle, Schätze aus der Restekiste (Treasures from the scrap box), is the best, but I hesitate to buy it myself. It costs €22 (US$32) O_o
I took this picture of my intended-to-read bookstack on April 12, 2005. Thanks to my pastor (and others), I got a bit side-tracked, but not regretfully so!
The Cost of Discipleship, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Politics of Jesus, by John Howard Yoder
The Peaceable Kingdom, by Stanley Hauerwas
The Story of God, by Michael Lodahl
The Ragamuffin Gospel, by Brennan Manning
The Road to Peace, by Henri Nouwen
The Powers that Be, by Walter Wink
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
Introducing Postmodernism
Introducing Modernism
God Is Not ... religious, nice, "one of us", an american, a capitalist
God's Politics, by Jim Wallis
A New Kind of Christian, by Brian McLaren
The Heart of Christianity, by Marcus Borg
Conflicting Allegiances: The Church-Based University in a Liberal Democratic Society, edited by Michael Budde and John Wright
Dead Man Walking, by Sister Helen Prejean
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, by Jacques Ellul
Violence, by Jacques Ellul
Apocalypes Now and Then, by Catherine Keller
Stranger at the Gate, by Mel White
Reefer Madness, by Eric Schlosser
The only one of these I read since then was Manning's The Ragamuffing Gospel -- a great book on grace! I'm still working through Bonhoeffer's awesome The Cost of Discipleship as time permits.
This is the picture that spurred the BookGarden idea and site.
An unbelievable surprise delight snuck in amongst the bookstacks. Kudos to John Portman. The circular stair below this conical skylight is reminiscent of those found in old traditional library bookstacks, and further entices students and public to explore the entire collection.
Tappe Architects (Library Architect)
Moseley Architects (Architect of Record)
John Portman Associates (Design Architect)
It turns out that March will be a science fiction month (dystopia, mostly) for me. I will be reading:
The Killables by Gemma Malley
All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (rereading before the film, of course)
Partials by Dan Wells (e-book)
Starters by Lissa Price (e-book)
File name: 08_02_005939
Box label: Boston Public Library: Branches (loose items)
Title: Open shelf room
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Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 3/4 x 10 in.
Genre: Photographic prints
Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Bookstacks
Notes: Image caption: About 3,000 books are placed in this room, under the following classes: Biography, Domestic Science, Economics & Business, Education, Essays, French, Gardening & Agriculture, German, Government, Health, History, Italian, Literary History, Manners & Customs, New Books (non-fiction), Spanish, Sports & Amusements, and Travel. The new non-fiction occupies the ranges on the right of the entrance.
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Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
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The following are the books we're reading for Dr. Lodahl's The History of Christian Thought II class:
Discourse on Free Will, a debate between Erasmus and Martin Luther
Biblical Religion And The Search for Ultimate Reality, by Paul Tillich
The Humanity of God, by Karl Barth
Feminist Theory and Christian Theology, by Serene Jones
Practice in Christianity, by Søren Kierkegaard
John Wesley's Moral Theology: The Quest for God and Goodness, by D. Stephen Long
A Prince of the Church: Schleiermacher and the Beginnings of Modern Theology, by B. A. Gerrish
The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought, by Margaret Miles
Just finished the Free Will debate tonight. Good stuff. Luther is kind of a jerk! :)
I read a few books in 2005, but now they are just in the way of my
guitars.
Not necessarily in the order shown in the stack:
The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
The Millionaires - Brad Meltzer
Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac
Love Me - Garrison Keillor
Gary Benchley, Rock Star - Paul Ford
Killing Yourself To Live - Chuck Klosterman
Fargo Rock City - Chuck Klosterman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Maelstrom - Don Pendleton
Public Enemies - Bryan Burrough
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
How To Blog - Tony Pierce
Candide - Voltaire
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
The Better of McSweeney’s, Volume One - McSweeney’s
I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe
File name: 08_02_002726
Box label: Public buildings: Libraries
Title: Boston Athenaeum. Interior
Alternative title: Boston Athenaeum: Interior. Built 1849, Edward C. Cabot, arch.
Creator/Contributor: Marr, Thomas E. (photographer)
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Date created: 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.
Genre: Photographic prints
Subjects: Boston Athenaeum; Athenaeums; Libraries; Buildings; Interiors; Bookstacks
Notes: Number on image: 5615
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Statement of responsibility: T. E. Marr
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
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- The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear - Don and Audrey Wood
- The Book of Bunny Suicides - Andy Riley
- The Return of the Bunny Suicides - Andy Riley
- My Old True Love - Sheila Kay Adams
- Memories Are Made of This - Deana Martin
- Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid On Earth - Chris Ware
- Sunstroke - Jesse Kellerman
- Traveling Music - Neil Peart
- McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Volume 13
- CBGB & OMFUG - Hilly Kristal and David Byrne
- Post Secret - Frank Warren
- The ACME Novelty Library - Chris Ware