book success
because blogger isn't cool like xanga, with its "currently reading" feature, i'm going to start such a feature on my own.
the point of telling people what you've been reading is to spread the word about a good book. i love that. i can't number how many times i've seen somebody's "currently reading" icon and gone off to amazon to read about it. and especially in the Christian community, we can be shamelessly recommending good reads to eachother as part of our job to encourage and sharpen.
not that i think what i read will automatically be on your top 10 must-reads list, but oftentimes, what one is reading at the moment is what one is going through, meditating on, excited about, loving, etc. it speaks about the person's heart. i also love this about book lists. if you put it in context, you can get to know one well by what one reads, and that's just cool.
this week, i finished reading A City in Winter: A Queen's Tale, a fiction about a ten year old girl who discovers her royal heritage has been stolen by the Usurper, and her quest is to reclaim it. my sister-in-law recommend it, and she knows and loves books. it is a kid book, of sorts, but fully capable of keeping an grown up's attention. it is enchantingly written, pregnant with unique, poignant vocabulary, and beautifully illustrated by Chris Van Alsburg (who did Polar Bear Express among other books). you can get it Amazon for $0.49!
i am also (still) in the midst of the third work in Lewis' space trilogy That Hideous Strength, though i think "space trilogy" is the wrong nomenclature for it. it is very other-worldy in some senses, but it's far different from what i expected simply because this kind of title gives it a stereotype (i was thinking Star Wars type literature). it does have some scary weirdensses to it that don't accompany my "bed-time" reading very well, which is why i only read it during the day, and which is why i haven't finished it yet :). but it is amazingly written, so fun, so telling of Modernity, and so rich.
the point of telling people what you've been reading is to spread the word about a good book. i love that. i can't number how many times i've seen somebody's "currently reading" icon and gone off to amazon to read about it. and especially in the Christian community, we can be shamelessly recommending good reads to eachother as part of our job to encourage and sharpen.
not that i think what i read will automatically be on your top 10 must-reads list, but oftentimes, what one is reading at the moment is what one is going through, meditating on, excited about, loving, etc. it speaks about the person's heart. i also love this about book lists. if you put it in context, you can get to know one well by what one reads, and that's just cool.
this week, i finished reading A City in Winter: A Queen's Tale, a fiction about a ten year old girl who discovers her royal heritage has been stolen by the Usurper, and her quest is to reclaim it. my sister-in-law recommend it, and she knows and loves books. it is a kid book, of sorts, but fully capable of keeping an grown up's attention. it is enchantingly written, pregnant with unique, poignant vocabulary, and beautifully illustrated by Chris Van Alsburg (who did Polar Bear Express among other books). you can get it Amazon for $0.49!
i am also (still) in the midst of the third work in Lewis' space trilogy That Hideous Strength, though i think "space trilogy" is the wrong nomenclature for it. it is very other-worldy in some senses, but it's far different from what i expected simply because this kind of title gives it a stereotype (i was thinking Star Wars type literature). it does have some scary weirdensses to it that don't accompany my "bed-time" reading very well, which is why i only read it during the day, and which is why i haven't finished it yet :). but it is amazingly written, so fun, so telling of Modernity, and so rich.
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