What are You Currently Reading?

[Thinkingstuff]

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia 1861...1865

Carlton McCarthy

His observations on his and others life during the Civil War.

That sounds like a real page turner

Detailed Minutiae

 

[baptistteacher]

History of the English Speaking PeoplesWinston Churchill
Condensed version

 

[Crabtownboy]

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

I have decided I need to read and/or re-read some of the classic stories from the past.

 

[MrJim]

Roots of the Reformation~Karl Adam

 

[Cutter]

Brotherhood Of War-W.E.B. Griffin
Since he is dealing with the military I have to hold my nose because of the vulgarity, but the storytelling is awesome.

 

[Crabtownboy]

The Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Nora’s struggle with Krogstad, who threatens to tell her husband about her past crime, incites Nora’s journey of self-discovery and provides much of the play’s dramatic suspense. Nora’s primary struggle, however, is against the selfish, stifling, and oppressive attitudes of her husband, Torvald, and of the society that he represents.

 

[Ivon Denosovich]

Spinoza's Ethics

Dostoyevky's Brothers Karamazov (Again!)

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

 

[Crabtownboy]

From Plotzk to Boston
By Mary Antin

This small, 80 page, book is a fascinating account of the journey of Mary Antin from Russia to the United States in 1889. You can download and read it on your computer, or read it online at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=qR...CoDDS_v2JYr6M-uvqe4P&cd=3#v=onepage&q&f=false

I definitely will read her "The Promised Land."

From Wikipedia:

Mary Antin (June 13, 1881 – May 15, 1949) was an American author and immigration rights activist.

Born to a Jewish family in Polotsk, she immigrated to the Boston area with her mother and siblings in 1894. She later moved to New York City where she attended Teachers College of Columbia University and Barnard College. Antin is best known for her 1912 autobiography The Promised Land, which describes her assimilation into American culture. After its publication, Antin lectured on her immigrant experience to many audiences across the country, and became a major supporter for Theodore Roosevelt and his Progressive Party.

 

[menageriekeeper]

Ted Dekker's "Red" and "White". One is supposed to read "Black" first, but it wasn't handy. The man has an imagination.

 

[MrJim]

Ted Dekker's "Red" and "White". One is supposed to read "Black" first, but it wasn't handy. The man has an imagination.

I've never read any of his stuff but keep hearing good things about him.

 

[menageriekeeper]

I haven't decided if he is "good" yet.

Some of his stuff is too intense for my taste. ("House" and "The Boneman's Daughter") The Circle series(titles above) is more science-fiction/fantasy. More to my taste, though I confess, I'm only reading them because they are what my kids are into at the moment.

 

[Timsings]

The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett (Norton, 1998)

The Second Book of the Tao by Stephen Mitchell (Penguin Press, 2009)


Tim Reynolds

 

[Bob Alkire]

Did Christ Die Only for the Elect? by Norman F. Douty

 

[Revmitchell]

Paradise to Prison- John J. Davis

 

[no-longer-lost]

Revolution in World Missions by K.P. Yohannan

Here is a link a free copy: https://www.gfa.org/offer/freebook/

He has a valid belief that national christian missionaries should be supported rather than sending western displaced missionaries into remote regions. Nationals are more fluent in the custom and languages of those they are bringing the gospel message to and don't have barriers that are often in the path of western missionaries. Good book.

His views about american christians and corporate worship and churchs are very humbling.

 

[quantumfaith]

Time and Eternity: Exploring God's relationship to time.

William Lane Craig

 

[jaigner]

I'm reading How To Read the Bible For All Its Worth by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart. It's a great resource for anyone wanting to learn how to better exegete and interpret the Bible for themselves. Great food for thought, too. I recommend it.

Also trying to read Paulby N.T. Wright. Wright is an amazing scholar, perhaps the foremost New Testament scholar among us today.

Also working on Mark Noll's The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Very good stuff.

 

[Rubato 1]

The Real George Washington: The Story of America's Most Indispensible Man

Published by the Center for Constitutional Studies.

 

[MrJim]

Stalking the Vampire~~Mike Resnick

 

[Bone]

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, by Matthew B. Crawford. I heard an interview with the author on the radio. He has a PhD. in political philosophy, and he runs a motorcycle repair shop.

Tim Reynolds

This is a great book (maybe because I agree with most of it).:laugh: