"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
The compiled works of George Eliot. Rereading Chinese folk-lore Monkey. Theres a movie being made. Just finished The Madonnas of Leningrad. The Horatio Hornblower series by Forrester. Don't know where I stopped last time so I am back on book 1.
And, of course, there will be that one day later this month where it's all things Harry. Ghee!
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"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
I'm rereading Harry Potter right now. In preparation, you see. Just finished OotP this morning and started HBP.
Before that...Ummm...Thirteenth Tale --it starts out a little creepy, but an excellent mystery after that.
The Great Snape Debate (I am not obsessive. I'm NOT.)
Pillar of Light --It had been awhile since I read W&tG, and I wanted to see if my perspective had changed. It wasn't the greatest thing ever, but I still liked it.
- Teaching Effective Classroom Routines - Positive Teacher Talk - Neil Sperry's Complete Guide to Texas Gardening
and about 150 children's books to decide which ones to put in my class reading center first. BTW, I inherited a huge old clawfoot bathtub that I'm going to fill with pillows and put in my classroom reading center. Gotta get them kids addicted to reading in the bathtub!
-- Edited by Roper at 16:34, 2007-07-10
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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. - Julie Beck
Well, I find what I read pleasurable even though it's for work at school or at home. But if you mean how much time per week do I spend just "escaping" into a really good book with no utilitarian purpose--zero since I started grad school last year. And I really miss that.
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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. - Julie Beck
At the moment I'm reading 1984. Soon I'll read Animal Farm, Quidditch through the Ages, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Then, when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes out I'll read that.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
How much time a week? Ummm... I go through cycles where I'll read a good 20 hours... (or more if I've got a couple page turners in succession) then back off to just an hour or two.
I am now reading a series of books called the Belgariad, there are five in the series. It is a fantasy series by David Eddings.
I also apparently appear to be reading other books that the rest of you are not reading! The scriptures! For shame!
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Lo, there I see my mother, my sisters, my brothers Lo, there I see the line of my people back to the beginning Lo, they call to me, they bid me take my place among them In the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live...forever
I am now reading a series of books called the Belgariad, there are five in the series. It is a fantasy series by David Eddings.
I also apparently appear to be reading other books that the rest of you are not reading! The scriptures! For shame!
The very same David Eddings who caught his house and office on fire when he drained the gas from an old car in his driveway and threw a lit match in it.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Lo, there I see my mother, my sisters, my brothers Lo, there I see the line of my people back to the beginning Lo, they call to me, they bid me take my place among them In the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live...forever
I also apparently appear to be reading other books that the rest of you are not reading! The scriptures! For shame! My bad, add the BOM to my list. I just assumed that since the prophets have said to read them that it was a given!
The only book I'm reading consistently is the Book of Mormon. I'm looking forward to reading Harry Potter though, and I'm reading Trav's new book... :)
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
I just assumed that since the prophets have said to read them that it was a given!
I wasn't going to list it either.
I'm reading Eldest with my son and Magic Street. Of course, with Harry Potter 7 reaching our house in about 2 weeks we may have to drop Eldest to read HP7 - we have our priorities! Then we have The Lost Prince of Darkleaf to read.
Just devoured Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt. Hamlet is my favorite work of secular literature of all time, and I love reading new commentaries on it. This one was fascinating!
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I'm not voting for Ron Paul because it's not expressly prescribed in the Constitution.
The Belgeriad is a great series! I read them the first time back in high school.
For fiction I'm currently reading The Souldrinkers Omnibus, a sci fi series.
In the historical category I'm reading Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 and Chosen Soldier.
I recently read "Sergeant Nibley" by Hugh Nibley and his son Alex Nibley. Nibley was in intellegence in WW2 in Africa and Europe, and relates some very interesting and faith promoting experiences, as well as things he wasn't supposed to find out that caused him to write "...you had better not try to tell little old me who started the war."
Re. "Sergeant Nibley", it is not a book I will likely use for reference, so I suggest borrowing. It cost about $25 at Deseret Book Store. My favourite incidents are: Pg. 9 continued on Pg. 198, Pg 133, Pg. 286.
One Excerpt from "Sergeant Nibley" by Hugh Nibley and Alex NibleyPage 7 (Year 1929)"I was set apart by Melvin J. Ballard, (an Apostle at that time) and he told us at that time to warn the people that they would be destroyed by fire if they didn't repent and accept the gospel."Page 9"During a conference in Karlsruhe I went and tracted right by a big church on the main street where it forks and leads out to the Oldenwald forest. There was a butcher shop there, and I went to it and started giving my voice of warning. On impulse I said what Brother Ballard told me, that the people woudld be destroyed by fire from heaven, and a gigantic Hessian woman had a fit. She ran to the back of the shop and came out waving a huge meat cleaver and said "Don't you tell me we'll be destroyed by fire from heaven!" So I moved on.Page 276 (Year 1945)Late one moonlit night I was driving Van Patten down the main street in Karlsruhe past the big church in the moonlight. The city was all in ruins; it had all just been wiped out by firebombs from the English planes. They just smashed the whole city. Suddenly I jammed on the brakes and ground to a halt. Van Patten said "What's wrong?" There was the framework of the door to the butcher shop where I had preached back in 1929. It was the butcher shop where the woman came out raving, waving the cleaver, and yelling "Don't you tell us we'll be destroyed by fire from heaven!" And all you see was the framework of the door there. Fire from heaved destroyed it....So they got fire from heaven all right. It was a strange thing - that such things should happen." Pg. 198"I woke up one morning very early, and there was my grandmother standing right at the head of my foxhole looking down at me. Just as plain as anything I saw her looking at me and I looked at her and waved." Note by Alex Nibley: "When the mail came through, it brought word that explained what the image he had seen of his grandmother standing by his foxhole had meant. Margaret Reid Sloan died on October 22, 1944"
Shiz...have you read The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade or Ways of Worldmaking by Nelson Goodman? I think you'd like them. Also Less Than Words Can Say...I forget the author... Google says Richard Mitchell.
Eliade is a discussion of the...ummm...sacred and the profane. In other words, he described the difference between two paradigms wherein one tries to live as much as possible within the realm of the sacred, and things all around have meaning versus the more modern mindset where all space is the same, nothing is special, the world and all around is just matter... In the sacred, there are places that become a center and a threshold to communication with God. He also discusses many of the myths and rituals used through time by people attempting to remind themselves of their center, the creation, and rebirth from chaos into order.
Worldmaking is about how we view the world through art and science in order to interact and create our own experience in the world...which actually becomes our world. The way in which we construct our own world from other worlds around us with underlying beliefs and precepts guides the way in which we find truth. It also shows why communication gets mangled because we're all arguing from our own world, and sometimes ideas can't be translated semantically from one world to another. Which is why we have to communicate against a background of shared beliefs in order to make any translation and why a book read by many people becomes a different book to each of them...they create the meaning in the space between the "signs" or words and the world in which the reader lives.
Less Than Words...is about the misuse of English and the loss of grammar and its effects and reflections on the world. For example, rampant use of passive voice both reflects and encourages an abandonment of responsibility. Even if we understand what was intended, bad grammar matters because it reflects the mind who wrote it. And the education system perpetuates a decline in thought because the educators are as guilty of misuse as the ignorant.
They're worth reading because...they make you think? Anyway...I like them.
And Roper, it is a fascinating book so far, though there is a lot of linguistics lingo to get through. But if you like (or can gloss over) words like "retroflex tongue" and "glottal stops" and "morphemes," then you would probably really enjoy the history stuff.
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I'm not voting for Ron Paul because it's not expressly prescribed in the Constitution.
Just started reading "California Desperados" about early bad guys in California. The book is very interesting. It talks a bit about Sam Brannon the Mormon Apostate. He was vice president of the Committee of Vigilence in Sanfrancisco which was a Vigilante group that operated in the open to fight the huge crime wave in the city.
I go through cycles where I'll read a good 20 hours... (or more if I've got a couple page turners in succession) then back off to just an hour or two.
