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Gary's bookshelves = 20-25 feet secular, 16 feet religious: brother, how many books do you have on your puter? :biggrin:

(02-24-2010 02:09 PM)Laura Wrote: [ -> ]Gary's bookshelves = 20-25 feet secular, 16 feet religious: brother, how many books do you have on your puter? :biggrin:

Er uhm Hundreds (20 or 25 gigs) on my storage drive. I went through and did a house cleaning of them last year. They are mostly now history and computer related with some fiction thrown in. My oldest has about 3 gigs of books which I can also access.

Gary

I've been reading:



but I just can't stand it any longer. Life is too short and I find this book to be not only boring but depressing as well. I'm disappointed because I recently read another book I loved by the author (mentioned earlier) and the critics loved it so I've had high hopes dashed.

I had been reading and enjoying a book I'd set aside when this book became available at my library (oh, the tyranny of the waiting list) and it felt like slipping into a warm bed after a long bath on a winter's night when I returned to it.

There's a big subjective difference between reading a good book and a bad book!

There are some books that I just couldn't get into, but very few 'bad' books in my lifetime.

I read a John Saul book once, and couldn't put it down, but will never, ever read another one by him...it was just too scary.

Oh, the current read:

(03-01-2010 10:15 PM)Gary Wrote: [ -> ]I finished Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd this afternoon. Started New York by same author.

Am still working on Larkin's Rightly Dividing the Word, as well as How to Teach the Bible by Dr. Ruckman. I also began reading Theological Studies Volume 2 by Dr. Ruckman.

Oh, I love Theological Studies! I borrow William's copies a lot.

I'm still reading my latest Laurie King (and it's the last one of her Mary Russell novels, until the new one comes out next month ), and am in Romans, using Brother Ruckman's commentary as I read. I'm planning on taking my RRB, Romans Commentary and a Sherlock Holmes collection with me tomorrow (I've never read the original Holmes stories).

Oh, and I'm also reading Ruckman's Psalms commentary too. Talk about multi-tasking! :biggrin:

(03-02-2010 12:42 PM)Here Am I Wrote: [ -> ]Oh, I love Theological Studies! I borrow William's copies a lot.

I'm still reading my latest Laurie King (and it's the last one of her Mary Russell novels, until the new one comes out next month ), and am in Romans, using Brother Ruckman's commentary as I read. I'm planning on taking my RRB, Romans Commentary and a Sherlock Holmes collection with me tomorrow (I've never read the original Holmes stories).

Oh, and I'm also reading Ruckman's Psalms commentary too. Talk about multi-tasking! :biggrin:

I have to admit I hesitated to read Theological Studies, because that word always makes me think of a very dry and boring subject. But Dr. Ruckman in his writing style makes it interesting and enjoyable. I am really enjoying it. I keep it by my bed so I can read it at night if I can't sleep.

I am reading in the New Testament, just finished the Pauline epistles. My plan next is to read the General Epistles. Followed by Revelation, which I will read with Dr. Ruckman's commentary on Revelation, doing a verse by verse study.

And yes sis you are a major multi-tasker!

Gary

(02-22-2010 05:01 AM)William Wrote: [ -> ]Lynne! You've got to get hold of this thing! I just got it from the library on Saturday, and it's absolutely blown my mind:

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As I may have mentioned on twenty or thirty occasions, Eliot is my favorite poet, at least since Tennyson, and "The Waste Land" is my very favorite poem (well, maybe it's tied with "Ulysses"). I have a recording of Eliot himself reading it; which is interesting, because he's the author, but he didn't have a good reading voice, and it is something of a disappointment.

But Paul Scofield! If you've seen any of his films, from "A Man for All Seasons" to Robert Redford's "Quiz Show," you know that he has one of the most magnificent voices you've ever heard - - - and he's a fine, fine actor. When I listened to him reading "The Waste Land," it was as though I were hearing the poem for the first time. It's about 30 minutes long.

I've been in love with "The Waste Land" ever since I learned about it in college, but suddenly it's brand new to me. Lynne, you've got to hear this!

Tears streamed down my face as I listened to The Waste Land.

I don't know what to call what keeps happening -- synchronicity is too Jungian. I'm currently embroidering the motto of Mary Queen of Scots, In my End is my Beginning, on linen; yesterday I read those very words in Susan Howatch's The Wheel of Fortune as she explored time; and today I listened to them in Four Quartets.