Tag Archives: reading
KINDLE FOR PC
Amazon’s digital reader Kindle is available FREE for PC and is amazing. I’m enjoying it very much. In a few years a physical book, like candles for light, will be an art object. I never would’ve believed it.
Did you say Harry Potter?
For the second time I’m beginning the seven-volume adventure. I won’t say it’s light reading. Just different. The change of pace will help. Not that I won’t be dipping into Bonhoeffer A Testament to Freedom as well before completing Rowling’s … Continue reading
Book Received
Gerald G. May. The Dark Night of the Soul: A Pschiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth. 2004. I hope here to find some answers and some ways to live through the valley of the shadow we’re in … Continue reading
Reading Bonhoeffer
For several weeks, been living in a gray fog denser than usual. Hence, fewer posts. But a couple books on Bonhoeffer have penetrated the fog: Jeffrey Pugh, Religionless Christianity; Bonhoeffer, A Testament to Freedom. The latter is a collection of … Continue reading
Friday Night Lights
My son has introduced me to Friday Night Lights, an intelligent TV show about football and more. I’ve been watching the DVDs. I recommend it.
Les Mis finished!
Left: Victor Hugo I just finished Les Miserables, 1260 pages in the Modern Library translation by Charles Wilbour. If anyone has read the new translation published by the Vintage Classics, please comment. I’d like to compare translations, because I’ve read … Continue reading
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The Moth and the Flame, a parable
The following is from Les Miserables (Project Gutenburg) St. Denis, Bk 7, “Slang.” Hugo defends recording slang, which he calls the language of misery. Then, as is typical, after several pages I forced myself to read, I found this: Thoughtful … Continue reading
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Reading Revelation & Les Mis
My day is divided now between prepping for Revelation and reading Les Miserables. For recreation, I’ve found about sixty of the old B&W Perry Mason in the CBS video collection, for free. So I go from the sublime to the … Continue reading
Of Presidents, popcorn, and pus— but no poem: a lesson in lectio
I’m currently reading 12 books—actually, 11. One “book” on my list is the Sacred Text Archive online, which contains hundreds of scripture-type books. But Internet reading ain’t the same, is it? You see, I’ve got all this time … Continue reading
How do you decide what to read?
Working in a nursing home I met people who no longer read. Maybe they couldn’t, due to deteriorating eyesight or because of mental condition simply lost the capacity or interest to do so. I resolved, then, to read all the … Continue reading
