What's on your Night Stand?

[stovebolts]

Ha Igor! I didn't even know they still published Madd Magazine! There is a guy at work that looks just like the dude on the Mag

I've got most of the Paul Series from Wright. Awesome theologian!

 

[Igor]

Ha Igor! I didn't even know they still published Madd Magazine! There is a guy at work that looks just like the dude on the Mag

I've got most of the Paul Series from Wright. Awesome theologian!

LOL! I think they do still publish it, but this was an old copy that a friend left with me for a couple of days for me to look through and be nostalgic. When I read this thread, I looked and saw the two laying together and the contrast was funny!

Gotta agree about NT Wright. This is the first of his writings I've studied, and am enjoying it much. He poses some complicated questions, but has given me some great insights so far.

 

[sherri2]

I bought a book yesterday on arthur streeton, a famous australian landscape artist. It's a bit pompous and dry, but it gives some interesting insights. I really like the artists work, and although I usually try to avoid artists biographies (because they're usually written by people who couldn't paint their way out of a paper bag) this one gives excerpts of his letters and some interesting facts about his life.

I find brilliant people pretty interesting overall, (unless they're politicans) and getting peeks behind the mask can reveal a lot. I love biographies done by people who really know what they're talking about. Especially artists and writers or creative people. But I tend to find that they're often more a chance for the author to show off then something factual and unbiased. Some of them are just downright nasty. I think J.M. Barrie once said something along the lines of 'biographies are a chance for lesser men to dig up the corpses of the great and wriggle their fingers in their eye sockets.'

Pretty funny. Something along those lines anyway.

 

[Julie]

The Pelican Brief by John Grisham. John Grisham writes simply amazing legal thrillers.

 

[Romans12:21]

The Bible and Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens. So far, Little Dorrit is alot like most of Dickens other novels in regard to character types, but man, Dickens plots never cease to amaze me. Just now I was reading chapter 27, and I was utterly shocked at a certain twist in the plot. It is a very good read so far, and I feel so bad for poor Mr. Clennam.4
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, is next on my list, I can't wait to read it, since I have never read any of Collin's books yet. Much less a detective thriller like this one.

 

[Died4Us]

Forgotten God by Francis Chan. It's an absolutely fantastic book about the Holy Spirit and how the modern church has all but "forgotten" about the power that is held in the Spirit. It's not preachy, just good goood goooooood stuff!

 

[theLords]

Once the semester is over, I'm going to begin reading:

The Imam's Daughter

Hannah Shah is an Imam's daughter. She lived the life of a devout Muslim in a family of Pakistani Muslims in England, but behind the front door, she was a caged butterfly. For many years, her father abused her in the cellar of their home. At sixteen, she discovered a plan to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, and she gathered the courage to run away. Relentlessly hunted by her angry father and brothers, who were intent on executing an 'honor' killing, she moved from house to house in perpetual fear to escape them. Over time, she converted to Christianity and was able to live and marry as she wished. Hannah found the courage to live her life free from shame, free from religious intolerance, and free from the abuse that haunted her childhood. This is a remarkable true story of how a young girl escaped a life of torture ... a story you won't forget.

I'm really looking forward to reading this book!​