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Sobre mimCurrently reading:
Travels With Robert Louis Stevenson: An Inland Voyage; In the South Seas; Across the Plains. 3 vol. set

Still need to finish reviews for:
Never Let Me Go
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Remains of the Day
The Wind in the Willows
Travels With A Donkey
The Complete Short Stories of Graham Greene

Put down, but will reattempt soon:
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
An Alphabet for Gourmets
Things Fall Apart
Bee Thousand
Travels With Charley
Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truth-Telling by Alan Jacobs
Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster

Optimistic/Completely Unrealistic Reading List for 2008:
Middlemarch
Up at the Villa
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Remains of the Day *
The Snow Leopard
Finn Family Moomintroll
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis (reread)
(more to come...)

* Mission Accompished

Sobre a minha bibliotecaFor 2008, I'm trying to read a helluva lot more than I did last year. Thanks to working two jobs, I think I only squeezed in about a dozen complete books.

To add to my already over-ambitious list of 50+ books for the year, I want to try and add a poorly written review for each book I finish.

I'm going to evaluate what I read based on three criteria:

- the quality of the writing (* being your average self-help guru, ***** being Dostoyevsky)

- the entertainment/enlightenment value of the story [* being the average self-help book, ***** being The Brothers Karamazov]

- the reread-ability of the story.

Only those I perceive to be true classics will get the five-star treatment. There are plenty of books I love which I'll have to concede a three- or four-star rating due to technical or creative failings (Pamela Frankau's Wreath for the Enemy springs to mind immediately as one of these).

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Travels With Robert Louis Stevenson: An Inland Voyage; In the South Seas; Across the Plains. 3 vol. set por Robert Louis Stevenson

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Hold on Hope Ep por Guided by Voices Cdteev 1985

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Isolation Drills por Guided by Voices Cdteev 2160

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Watership Down: A Novel por Richard Adams

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A Death in the Family por James Agee

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Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) por Jane Austen

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Sorry for the shameless self-promotion, but I thought you might like to know that my new novel, Dirty Little Angels, is now available. Thought you might be interested since people have compared it to Flannery O'Connor, who I noticed was on your shelf. Here's a summary in case you're interested:

Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.

If you'd like to read the first chapter, you can read it here:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id...

Take care,

Chris

publicado por cmtusa às 10:47 pm (EST) em Mar 16, 2009

I'm familiar with the efforts of some of the Mars Hill Audio gang - Alan Jacobs is an interesting one (I think he teaches/has taught English at Wheaton). He had a rather amusing parody of the poetry of Kahlil Gibran in an issue of First Things last year.

publicado por josephx23 às 10:19 pm (EST) em Feb 7, 2008

Mr. Tatler, I presume!

publicado por josephx23 às 10:31 am (EST) em Jan 29, 2008

I commented on your post about vanishing point.

publicado por keren7 às 5:50 pm (EST) em Dec 31, 2007

You're right, actually - in fact all ethical systems would fall somewhere along the continuum between relativism and absolutism. My complaint is that he introduces that as the major distinction between value systems, when most ethicists would say the major distinction is between teleology and deontology, and more specifically that there are three "big boys" of ethics - virtue ethics, consequentialism, and deontology. So his distinction is an over-simplification... in much the same way as his claim that the major divisions of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. (Notice anything really big missing from that list?)

I know, I have way too much angst built up over this book, but that's the unfortunate result of having to teach from it all semester, and also having to deal with a senior faculty member who has absolutely no interest in hearing why this might not be the best textbook to foist on 900 students every semester - because he, too, has a Sesame Street view of philosophy and is more interested in making students feel good about themselves than in actually teaching them philosophy. *Sigh* I'm done, really!

publicado por philosojerk às 4:30 pm (EST) em Dec 14, 2007

Teach me so that I can further reduce my productivity!
LOL too, too funny (and ain't that the truth!).

on the 'CDs thing' - i just put them in manually. there are already a few CDs in the system but most aren't. you can search like you would for a book but i just find it easier to assume it's not in there and go right to manual. i just enter the 'book name' as the album name and the 'author' as the artist, then tag it however i like. not too complicated. if you're adamant about having book (album) covers, you're going to need to input those in manually as well (you can scan covers or just swipe them from websites such as amazon or barnes and noble, etc).

if you find an easier way of doing it, please share! =)

i'm still entering the rest of my collection in the database. there's something very relaxing about mindlessly inputing in data and organizing them - this site caters to my OCD tendencies beautifully LOL

hey, if you need anymore help, don't hesitate to stop by again.

later,
mary

publicado por aznstarlette às 3:54 pm (EST) em Dec 14, 2007

Ha! You'd be amazed what makes its way onto my "to do this decade" list when I'm trying my very hardest not to work on the never-ending paper. Graduate school has the added bonus of helping you learn all of the most productive ways to procrastinate ;)

Anyway, I updated my review of the Biffle book, although I'm not sure it's any better than it was. If anything, I might now look like even more of a screeching, bitter grad student who just needs someone to take it out on!

Cheers,
Dani

publicado por philosojerk às 6:20 pm (EST) em Dec 13, 2007

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