Incredible, challenging, complex. Powerful for the questions it asks and the easy answers it avoids. Every word, line, story is filled with flavor, packs a punch, nothing wasted.
Thank you Wesley and Jenna for recommending this book. #stillprocessing
Thank you Wesley and Jenna for recommending this book. #stillprocessing
Second time through, thanks to Mando, and still holds up as what the expanded Star Wars universe always should have been.
If I think too hard about it, I’ll be more disappointed. It was still mostly fun but he spent way too much time on John Hughes and Prince. Like way too much. What started out as a clever idea in RP1, now after Armada and RP2 seems like a massive crutch.
Beautiful and challenging, at once bombastic, prickly, proud and vulnerable.
3.5 really. Profound in parts, redundant in others (especially part 1 on the Cold War letters).
Must reads though are chapters 15, 19, and 20. The ideas here on race are depressingly still relevant and diagnostic of today as much as they were 60 years ago
In sum, a worthy application of non-violence to the issues plaguing one’s culture and time.
Must reads though are chapters 15, 19, and 20. The ideas here on race are depressingly still relevant and diagnostic of today as much as they were 60 years ago
In sum, a worthy application of non-violence to the issues plaguing one’s culture and time.
Um. I thought this book was a classic. Between that hype, the terrible prose, the nonsensical plot and the heavy handed metaphor, I am quite disappointed.
God is over time is over man is over space. Sabbath is how we turn our attention away from space to commune with God through time. Beautiful book, beautiful prose, beautiful practice. Best read in companion with Brueggeman’s Sabbath as Resistance to really wrestle with cultural criticism.
The last chapter moved it from a 3 to a 4. Wasn’t prepared for as much academic exposition as there is, but the final theological retrospective pulls it together beautifully. A worthy exploration and a challenging one at that, of OT prayer.
Reading: Kid Edition.
Read this with the 7 year old girl. Very fun, very warm book. We both enjoyed this book immensely. Fair warning, it does include some death, so may not be suitable for younger or especially fearful children. I also had some concern as we neared it, how this story would end - I won't spoil details but would say that the ambiguity at the end is healthy and real, but again, probably not suitable for kids who are still working more in black and white, than gray.
Good news, though! Book 2 is out this March and the 7 and I are already super pumped!
Read this with the 7 year old girl. Very fun, very warm book. We both enjoyed this book immensely. Fair warning, it does include some death, so may not be suitable for younger or especially fearful children. I also had some concern as we neared it, how this story would end - I won't spoil details but would say that the ambiguity at the end is healthy and real, but again, probably not suitable for kids who are still working more in black and white, than gray.
Good news, though! Book 2 is out this March and the 7 and I are already super pumped!
My daughter (9) and I loved this book. Strong recommendation for book lovers.
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein
Engrossing, hilarious, and profound - made even better because it actually happened.
The Explosive Child: A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children by Ross W. Greene
Liked the conceptual framework a lot. The emphasis on collaborative, empathetic problem solving is great.
Thought the anecdotes are a bit too tidy and a bit too long - probably not realistic to find resolution so simply.
Thought the anecdotes are a bit too tidy and a bit too long - probably not realistic to find resolution so simply.
3.5
Reads as really dated and the dialogue is... not great. But the concept and story are fun and I get how this was a major event for its time.
Reads as really dated and the dialogue is... not great. But the concept and story are fun and I get how this was a major event for its time.
What about Black Jack though???
I love the WB. But this book was more academic than the title had given me hope enough to make this purchase. A more apt title would substitute “Understanding” for “Praying.” Still good, just not as engaged with heart as with the mind...
Simplicity. Profundity. I love the way Hanh sees and engages with the world. And I appreciate that his positivity is rooted in practice, not wishful thinking. He sees the world as it is and moves within it, one breath at a time.
This book was not an easy read. I had higher expectations for it which explains at least some of the difficulty. Parts I and II were better than III. That didn’t help either. Strange for a book on emotional intelligence to be so coldly intellectual. Felt more like an education on the science of the emotions than an resource for improving emotional intelligence so I guess now I know?
Picked this up after his recent passing. A respected legend with the passion of a fan and the honesty of someone with nothing to lose (which somehow meant he couldn’t). A gentle reminder that criticism doesn’t have to be obtuse to be good.
This series is a great adventure. The plot is complicated, as are the characters, but both are believable. The scope and depth of the world building is a consistent delight. Imaginative and bloody and fun. This series stands in the wake of the classics and isn’t overwhelmed.
Having seen the movie years ago, and heard numerous references to the work of John Le Carre since then, this seemed like a good place to start. Knowing the ending did not spoil the read. Great plot/process, complicated characters, and more than enough intrigue to keep it from being too tidy a resolution.