There will be no New Testament post today. Mostly because we spent thirty minutes talking about these five or six words: The Gospel According to St. Matthew. (Well, I said a post once a month was my goal anyway. I hope the pace of the class picks up, because this is a bit ridiculous so far ( Read more... )

I was thinking about books and marketing (as one does), and wondering why Scholastic chose to market The Hunger Games for a young adult audience. My default assumption is that it's because the protagonist is in that same age range. (Collins has written for children before, however. I don't know how much input she had for how these books were ( Read more... )

Read Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett. Enjoyable as always. I like Death and his subterranean sense of humor.

Finished rereading Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card.

Deadlock by Iris Johansen. Had to skim lots. (See previous post for rant about mental nausea from contemporary romantic suspense novels*.) Put book in the recycling bin after ( Read more... )

I gave up and read Mockingjay even though I'm not done with Eragon or Pratchett's Reaper Man, because I want to know! Also because I'm tired of tiptoeing around on LJ. Most of you have been great about not posting spoilery stuff outside the LJ cut, but not everyone is so courteous. THE BOOK HASN'T EVEN BEEN OUT FOR A WEEK YET, Y'ALL! STOP ( Read more... )

I'm typing this entry directly into livejournal, instead of in notepad like I usually do. Why? Because this is supposed to be a short break from cleaning. I've already done a beading break (a friend came over and finished making a necklace while I made earrings to go with a necklace I made last year), and it's time to do more organizing ( Read more... )

( books so far, January through mid-July 2010 (this list should be much longer) )