Monday, January 26, 2009
THE ZOO
So how is the reading coming?? As I read the book I got so into that I actually finished the book in 2 weeks. The religious insights in this book are incredibly eye opening. One of the parts that I truly enjoyed at the opening of the book were his different explanations that he gave about animals and their enjoyment of their lives at a zoo. It is interesting how he describes freedom as being free from being a scavenger as a wild animal is. Although, that this does make sense that they may might not have to fight anymore to stay alive, freedom is not based on the ability to stay alive and eat but on the ability to choose for oneself what one wants to do. Please comment or email me a post about what things you have enjoyed in the book and I will put it up as a post on the blog.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
The Winner is...
THE LIFE OF PI
Click on the Image to go to amazon.com or you can pick it up at any local book store or library. Start the reading, and I'll put up some post that we can all comment on as we read the book. Let the Reading Begin!!!
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Book List
1. 20,000 leagues under the sea.
2. Atlas Shrugged
3. The Life of PI
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel. In the story, the protagonist Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of religion, spirituality, and practicality from an early age and survives 227 days shipwrecked and stranded in the Pacific Ocean.
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful and has become a classic of modern American fiction. The novel is loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.
The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explained the novel's impact by writing, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism."[1]
5. Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace by David Wolfe and Nick Good, pp. 211 Out of confusion and chaos of a world in utter transformation, this book delivers a whole new paradigm of possibility guaranteed to touch your heart and leave you wondering if this is fiction or non-fiction. Fantasies can come become fact.
6. The Millionaire Mind or The Millionaire Next Door
Fan’s of the Thomas Stanley’s modern classic The Millionaire Next Door will find a lot to love about Stanley’s follow-up, The Millionaire Mind. But while a lot of the central concepts of The Millionaire Next Door are mentioned again here, this is no rehash of the same material. Where his earlier work focuses on the frugal living and blue-collar, middle-class origins of America’s modern millionaire, The Millionaire Mind delves into the psychology and and common successful characteristics (besides being frugal), America’s wealthy all possess. It’s not so much a self-help or how-to-get-rich book so much as a scholarly study of the average American millionaire, how they spend their time, what they believe, and the behaviours that helped them become that way.
7. Infidel
Hirsi Ali writes about her youth in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya, about her flight to the Netherlands where she applied for political asylum, her university experience in Leiden, her work for the Labour Party, her transfer to the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, her election to Parliament, and the murder of Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the film Submission. The book ends with the controversy regarding her citizenship, which helped bring down the Dutch government.
ITS TIME TO VOTE!!!!! COMMENT ON THE BLOG OR EMAIL ME WHAT YOU GUYS WOULD LIKE TO READ!!!!
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the perspective of his passenger Professor Pierre Aronnax.
2. Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. It was Rand's third, longest, and last novel. Afterwards she only completed non-fiction works; concentrating on philosophy, politics, and cultural criticism.
At over one thousand pages in length, she considered Atlas Shrugged to be her magnum opus.[1] The book explores a number of philosophical themes that Rand would subsequently develop into the philosophy of Objectivism.[2][3] It centers around the decline of Western civilization and Rand described it as demonstrating the theme "the role of man's mind in existence." In doing so it expresses many facets of Rand's philosophy, such as the advocacy of reason, individualism, and the market economy.
At over one thousand pages in length, she considered Atlas Shrugged to be her magnum opus.[1] The book explores a number of philosophical themes that Rand would subsequently develop into the philosophy of Objectivism.[2][3] It centers around the decline of Western civilization and Rand described it as demonstrating the theme "the role of man's mind in existence." In doing so it expresses many facets of Rand's philosophy, such as the advocacy of reason, individualism, and the market economy.
3. The Life of PI
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel. In the story, the protagonist Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of religion, spirituality, and practicality from an early age and survives 227 days shipwrecked and stranded in the Pacific Ocean.
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful and has become a classic of modern American fiction. The novel is loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.
The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explained the novel's impact by writing, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism."[1]
5. Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace by David Wolfe and Nick Good, pp. 211 Out of confusion and chaos of a world in utter transformation, this book delivers a whole new paradigm of possibility guaranteed to touch your heart and leave you wondering if this is fiction or non-fiction. Fantasies can come become fact.
6. The Millionaire Mind or The Millionaire Next Door
Fan’s of the Thomas Stanley’s modern classic The Millionaire Next Door will find a lot to love about Stanley’s follow-up, The Millionaire Mind. But while a lot of the central concepts of The Millionaire Next Door are mentioned again here, this is no rehash of the same material. Where his earlier work focuses on the frugal living and blue-collar, middle-class origins of America’s modern millionaire, The Millionaire Mind delves into the psychology and and common successful characteristics (besides being frugal), America’s wealthy all possess. It’s not so much a self-help or how-to-get-rich book so much as a scholarly study of the average American millionaire, how they spend their time, what they believe, and the behaviours that helped them become that way.
7. Infidel
Hirsi Ali writes about her youth in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya, about her flight to the Netherlands where she applied for political asylum, her university experience in Leiden, her work for the Labour Party, her transfer to the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, her election to Parliament, and the murder of Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the film Submission. The book ends with the controversy regarding her citizenship, which helped bring down the Dutch government.
ITS TIME TO VOTE!!!!! COMMENT ON THE BLOG OR EMAIL ME WHAT YOU GUYS WOULD LIKE TO READ!!!!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The IDEA
O.K. So here it is.
Last year I made a new years resolution to read a book a month. When I started reading I got super hooked and found out how awesome it is to read. (It is suprising how much you can read when you turn off the tv) With the new year coming up I have decided to renew the resolution and form a group with a bunch of my close friends to get new ideas going and discuss some of these rad books.
How it works
First comment on the blog and let me know that you are interested. Then send me an a few books that you would suggest we read. I will take all of these books and post it on this blog. We then vote on which book to read. Then repeat it all over again.
Let the Rad Reading Begin!!
Last year I made a new years resolution to read a book a month. When I started reading I got super hooked and found out how awesome it is to read. (It is suprising how much you can read when you turn off the tv) With the new year coming up I have decided to renew the resolution and form a group with a bunch of my close friends to get new ideas going and discuss some of these rad books.
How it works
First comment on the blog and let me know that you are interested. Then send me an a few books that you would suggest we read. I will take all of these books and post it on this blog. We then vote on which book to read. Then repeat it all over again.
Let the Rad Reading Begin!!
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