October books
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coffeesnob31846. God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer by Pete Grieg
I chose this book solely because its foreword was written by Brian McLaren, and I love Brian McLaren. Oh, and also because he wrote a book that everyone at my church looooves. OK – it was also because of things like this “And then, on Easter Sunday, God broke the silence. He awoke. He spoke. And for those of us who walk (however reluctantly) in Jesus’ footsteps from Gethsemane and Golgotha to the Garden tomb, Easter Sunday offers irrepressible hope. That one ultimate miracle – the resurrection of the Son of God from the dead – assures us that every buried dream and dashed hope will ultimately be absorbed and resurrected into a reality far greater than anything we can currently imagine.”
I finished this book because it unfolded as one of the most honest works on prayer and hardship and seeking a God who seems absent that I have ever read. I want to give this book to everyone who has ever experienced the silence of God.
“The agony would have been easy if it could have been supported by eternal hope. But for God to be a man he had to despair.” – Albert Camus
When he asks, “Why are you crying?” – “Tell him. Lament. Rant, if you need to. And when you are done, stop and hear the way He speaks your name.”
47. Swapping Lives by Jane Green
I like the character who is 35, single, with a great career. I identify with her (well, except for the great career part…I guess mine’s ok, as careers go), especially the parts about not really having social peers because most of her friends around her age have gotten married, and most of her friends who are still single are not quite where she is because they are so much younger and, thus, just at a different stage of life. “Vicky has never had a problem fitting in. But now she finds that she does not have a place in the world. Or at least not the place she wants.”
I loved this book. Not so much for the writing, but because I really needed the story. This was the exact right time to read it.
48. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Sweet book. I loved the beginning, and I loved the ending. I got a little impatient with the middle, which tells me a lot about my patience level in general. But I enjoyed it.
49. With This Ring by Amanda Quick
I, um, I…*whispers* I liked it. But don’t tell anybody. I’d never live that down. But I really liked it.
50!!!!!! A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
I have never heard anything bad about anything this guy has written. I have nothing bad to say about this one. I loved it. It was hilarious. Yay!
51. Inside Job by Connie Willis
I read this book in a little over an hour. It’s the first of hers that I’ve read, and I was surprised by how much I liked it. She’s a good writer. I enjoyed the story and the way that she told it. I look forward to reading more things she’s written.
52. In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories, and Prayers by Mother Teresa
I’m on a Mother Teresa kick. I’m excited to read her newly published journals, but I probably won’t get around to it until next year. The most amazing thing to me about her is how much generosity she saw in others - how she really did put into practice seeing people made in the image of God. My favorite story in this book was her response to someone who told her that she was spoiling the poor by giving them free things and that this robbed them of their dignity. She answered by giving examples of all the ways that God spoils us – all the free things that we are not asked to pay for, like oxygen, sight, and sunshine. She concluded by pointing out that there were many communities that spoil the rich; it is good that there is at least one that spoils the poor.
53. Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
I knew that this book and I were going to be friends when I read this sentence: “Basically, I realized, I was living in that awful stage of life from the age of twenty-six to thirty-seven known as stupidity.” I often resemble that remark.
This book had an odd effect on me – it made me fall in love with my NaNoWriMo story. It made me think that people would enjoy stories about my characters, because I think my characters would be friends with Moore’s characters. And I had to hurry and finish the book because someone else had reserved it at the library. So there are at least two people who like stories like these. Three if you count Lorrie Moore herself, which I do.
I don't know what I'll get around to reading (or posting) this month, with NaNoWriMo taking up a lot of my spare time, except for Chris Baty's No Plot, No Problem, which is about writing for NaNoWriMo. But I hope you are all doing well. *loves*
I chose this book solely because its foreword was written by Brian McLaren, and I love Brian McLaren. Oh, and also because he wrote a book that everyone at my church looooves. OK – it was also because of things like this “And then, on Easter Sunday, God broke the silence. He awoke. He spoke. And for those of us who walk (however reluctantly) in Jesus’ footsteps from Gethsemane and Golgotha to the Garden tomb, Easter Sunday offers irrepressible hope. That one ultimate miracle – the resurrection of the Son of God from the dead – assures us that every buried dream and dashed hope will ultimately be absorbed and resurrected into a reality far greater than anything we can currently imagine.”
I finished this book because it unfolded as one of the most honest works on prayer and hardship and seeking a God who seems absent that I have ever read. I want to give this book to everyone who has ever experienced the silence of God.
“The agony would have been easy if it could have been supported by eternal hope. But for God to be a man he had to despair.” – Albert Camus
When he asks, “Why are you crying?” – “Tell him. Lament. Rant, if you need to. And when you are done, stop and hear the way He speaks your name.”
47. Swapping Lives by Jane Green
I like the character who is 35, single, with a great career. I identify with her (well, except for the great career part…I guess mine’s ok, as careers go), especially the parts about not really having social peers because most of her friends around her age have gotten married, and most of her friends who are still single are not quite where she is because they are so much younger and, thus, just at a different stage of life. “Vicky has never had a problem fitting in. But now she finds that she does not have a place in the world. Or at least not the place she wants.”
I loved this book. Not so much for the writing, but because I really needed the story. This was the exact right time to read it.
48. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Sweet book. I loved the beginning, and I loved the ending. I got a little impatient with the middle, which tells me a lot about my patience level in general. But I enjoyed it.
49. With This Ring by Amanda Quick
I, um, I…*whispers* I liked it. But don’t tell anybody. I’d never live that down. But I really liked it.
50!!!!!! A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
I have never heard anything bad about anything this guy has written. I have nothing bad to say about this one. I loved it. It was hilarious. Yay!
51. Inside Job by Connie Willis
I read this book in a little over an hour. It’s the first of hers that I’ve read, and I was surprised by how much I liked it. She’s a good writer. I enjoyed the story and the way that she told it. I look forward to reading more things she’s written.
52. In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories, and Prayers by Mother Teresa
I’m on a Mother Teresa kick. I’m excited to read her newly published journals, but I probably won’t get around to it until next year. The most amazing thing to me about her is how much generosity she saw in others - how she really did put into practice seeing people made in the image of God. My favorite story in this book was her response to someone who told her that she was spoiling the poor by giving them free things and that this robbed them of their dignity. She answered by giving examples of all the ways that God spoils us – all the free things that we are not asked to pay for, like oxygen, sight, and sunshine. She concluded by pointing out that there were many communities that spoil the rich; it is good that there is at least one that spoils the poor.
53. Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
I knew that this book and I were going to be friends when I read this sentence: “Basically, I realized, I was living in that awful stage of life from the age of twenty-six to thirty-seven known as stupidity.” I often resemble that remark.
This book had an odd effect on me – it made me fall in love with my NaNoWriMo story. It made me think that people would enjoy stories about my characters, because I think my characters would be friends with Moore’s characters. And I had to hurry and finish the book because someone else had reserved it at the library. So there are at least two people who like stories like these. Three if you count Lorrie Moore herself, which I do.
I don't know what I'll get around to reading (or posting) this month, with NaNoWriMo taking up a lot of my spare time, except for Chris Baty's No Plot, No Problem, which is about writing for NaNoWriMo. But I hope you are all doing well. *loves*
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Date: 2007-11-06 03:59 pm (UTC)Anyway, it is a good book, especially if you know why so many people love it so much.
It can be a bit confusing, but being that my sister has Asperger's, I read it going into it seeing how many people with Asperger's figure they can fix something and then because they can do one simple thing then they can do this really huge elaborate thing.
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Date: 2007-11-06 05:14 pm (UTC)