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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/29/2005 2:41:33 PM
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Auben
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She's Come Undone is a train wreck of a novel. It starts out bad for the main character and gets worse and worse. She just exchanges one abuser for another. It's so frustrating. Maybe it got better, but I was 2/3 of the way though and was disgusted so I got rid of it.
House-keeping is good, but it doesn't have much plot. The language is really dense too. It's a short book (can't be much over 200 if it is) but I have to read slowly to pick up all of the minute observations and dry humor. There's a really lonely feel to it. I don't think I'd recommend it to everyone. It's a writer's novel, if you know what I mean. Critical darling, but no best seller.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/29/2005 3:46:52 PM
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Carrie E. Felty
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I just finished Harry Potter GOF XD
I've read them all, but I wanted to reread them before I read the 6th :)
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/29/2005 8:51:27 PM
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Broken On The Back Row by Sandi Patty
Sandi Patty recounts her rise in CCM , her fall from grace & long road back to God. Title is from Sandi's crying doing church service on the back row. This is a powerful testimony to the joy of forgiveness , repentance & restoration. Her pastor has written the last chapter of the book , helps you work your way back to wholeness & restoration to the body of Christ.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/29/2005 9:04:58 PM
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/31/2005 9:06:05 PM
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Just finished a compilation of Jonathan Edward's sermons," Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". Am in the middle of "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide", a bound edition of Douglas Adams' 5 book series, and am rereading my "Fray" comic book collection and the "30 Days of Night" TBP trilogy.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/6/2005 6:42:43 AM
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LindaIona
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I'm reading a book called Being Dead Is No Excuse, a book about funeral customs in the Mississippi Delta. It's hilarious.
Isn't it wonderful? Such good humor. There's an expression that says "Only the truth is funny", and you know these people exist!
Some elements are not just Southern, but funny wherever they come from. One is that stuffed (deviled) eggs always show up at funeral receptions, so if someone gets the big oval egg platter down, you just automatically ask, "Who died?"
As an Episcopalian, I roared at the description of the "socially correct" funeral from St. James, their observations on Episcopalians and "liquid refreshment", and the culinary rivalry with the Methodists (Episcopalians will sneer at the Campbell's soup-based cuisine of the Methodists, but they're always the ones caught out in the kitchen scarfing it down).
I have to admit, I recognized the part where they said "any Southerner over 30" has already planned his/her funeral. On the list of most popular hymns for each denomination, I found I had selected two of the five Episcopal choices.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/6/2005 11:46:19 AM
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I am currently reading "RED" the second book in the Circle Trilogy. written by Ted Dekker
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/7/2005 10:48:35 AM
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zoey
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Just finished The Rule of Four. Interesting...
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/7/2005 2:16:43 PM
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I just started "Mississippi in Africa." It is about the slaves that were freed and then shipped to Liberia, Africa. It is a book I've been meaning to read for awhile because my church is very active in an area of Liberia. So far, pretty good.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/7/2005 3:11:34 PM
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I'm currently reading "Knowing God Intimately" by Joyce Meyer 
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/7/2005 4:23:26 PM
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I'm reading Bernard Goldberg's latest, _100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken is #37)_. It's a great look at the coarsening of the American culture and the people Goldberg believes are largely responsible for it.
I just realized the title of the book may not pass the filters. We'll give it a shot!
Joanne
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/7/2005 10:57:58 PM
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Smax
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The trade paperback "Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers". Or, I'm about to as soon as I sign off here.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/8/2005 2:55:29 AM
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Cool books you gotta dig...:
1. Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
2. I Love You Like Tomatoe by Maria (forget the last name) --> very cool!
3. Phantom of Toll Booth by Norton Juster
4. Tuesday With Morrie by Mitch Albom
5. Good Grief by Lolly Winston
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez Garcia
Available in all your favorite bookstore...(mmm...should be...)
Naomi ;)
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/8/2005 10:45:49 AM
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I am currently reading Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti and Faithless, a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/8/2005 11:53:58 AM
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Ah yes, one of the perks of working in a book store...I'm currently reading an uncorrected proof of Ted Dekker's next novel, due out some time in 2006.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/8/2005 11:59:20 AM
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Ah yes, one of the perks of working in a book store...I'm currently reading an uncorrected of Ted Dekker's next novel, due out some time in 2006.
I think that is called injustice. 
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/8/2005 1:06:27 PM
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uncabeeil
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Ah yes, one of the perks of working in a book store...I'm currently reading an uncorrected of Ted Dekker's next novel, due out some time in 2006.
I think that is called injustice.
Actually it's called having a great boss. She brought it back from a convention for me.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/8/2005 1:39:30 PM
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quote:
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Ah yes, one of the perks of working in a book store...I'm currently reading an uncorrected of Ted Dekker's next novel, due out some time in 2006.
I think that is called injustice.
Actually it's called having a great boss. She brought it back from a convention for me.
Sweet. Did she go to CBA?
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/8/2005 3:12:47 PM
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I am presently reading the late Dr. Stanley Grenz's recently revised book, 'Prayer: The Cry for the Kingdom. So far it's really good.
"Grenz develops this understanding of petitionary prayer by exploring key questions that many Christians ask: What does it mean to pray "according to God's will"? How can I become a person of prayer? Should we persist in petitioning God for our needs? Does prayer really influence God? In the process of engaging these questions, Grenz offers advice on how to pray more effectively and issues a pertinent challenge to the contemporary church to recapture what it means to be a church that prays."
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/8/2005 10:01:54 PM
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zoey
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I'm reading "The Vile Village" Book the Seventh in the Series of Unfortunate Events.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/9/2005 12:23:42 PM
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Wow, there are so many more books to read!
Since I posted here earlier, I have read
"Questioning Evangelism" by Randy Newman
"Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in marriage" Strobel
"The Prayer of Jabez" Wilkinson
"The Angels were Silent" Lucado
"God in the Garden" about Billy Graham
"Jesus Among Other Gods" Ravi Zacharias
"Don't all religions lead to God?" Michael Green
In my Bible, I am trying to make it to Ruth/Mark
now I am reading "Experiencing the Heart of Jesus" Max Lucado
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/9/2005 12:52:33 PM
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Bodie & Brock Thoene's - A.D. Chronicle's first book.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/9/2005 1:42:24 PM
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1984.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 8/9/2005 8:10:54 PM
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Before Jerusalem Fell, by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.
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