[Warning: I don't normally swear on this blog but this post includes some swear words. Just letting you know if you need to prepare yourself!]

'It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; ( Read more... )

Usually when I engage with Oliver O'Donovan I am either standing wide-eyed and open mouthed in response to his amazing ideas or gently mocking his inability to communicate with normal people. He is a very smart man, and if you are a Christian you should really listen to what he has to say about ethics and politics. It's just that it's hard to ( Read more... )

Thanks to my boss for a generous half-day off this weekend started on Friday. It's been a wonderfully relaxing weekend, filled with just the right blend of alone/people time, indoors/outdoors time and productive/lazy time ( Read more... )

There have been some great posts up on some of my favourite non-LJ blogs over the last few weeks. Here they are, corralled into a handy post, for you to check out too.

Green
Five totally not rocket science tips for reducing your footprint at eek.ologyA beautiful post with five simple, logical and pleasant ways to make your life a little more ( Read more... )

I am whittling away at my list of votes for the Triple J Hottest 100. I'm not there yet but hopefully I will have a list I am happy with soon ( Read more... )

It took a while for me to warm to High Fidelity. The novel was slow going at the start and its representation of the inside of a guy's head bordered on disturbing (is that how men really think?)! My desire to keep reading was purely driven by a morbid curiosity to find out whether Rob Fleming would fulfil his destiny and become the greatest loser ( Read more... )

Following a long posts on books, I'd like to toss up a few thoughts on the kobo. I have heard a number of friends mention thoughts about buying an e-reader. Here are my two cents that might be useful to anyone who is considering buying an e-reader and who wants to know about this particular type.


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About this time last year I jumped on birdienl's bandwagon and answered a series of questions on my favourite films. This year she has been at it again with a very enlightening series of posts on books, and again I am inspired to follow suit. This time I have done it all in one go.

I have hidden my self-indulgent reading reflections behind a cut.

( For the curious and bored: Spally was once an avid reader... )

Upon hearing that I have never read Wives and Daughters my friend Amelia practically forced the novel into my hands. She and Bron demanded that I read it and keep them updated as I progessively get hooked. Stay tuned. Livejournal just might be the right forum for that kind of thing. Also, thanks goes out to my mother in law, who has been slowly ( Read more... )

"Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
-Peter, quoted in Acts 2:36
I don't know if I have even written this here, but I have been going along to a book club at uni and we have been reading (or skim reading on my part) a fantastic book called "The ( Read more... )