Board index › Topical Discussion › Art, Writing, and Music

Post a book you're reading

Page 297 of 310 [ 4958 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300 ... 310  Next

Previous topic | Next topic

blitzkrieg
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 8 Jun 2011
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 22,045

29 Mar 2024, 4:31 pm

The Cross of Christ by John R. W. Stott


_________________
“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face” - Franz Kafka


Aspiegaming
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 11 Sep 2012
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,274
Location: Hagerstown, MD

31 Mar 2024, 7:12 pm

Halo: The Cole Protocol.


_________________
I am sick, and in so being I am the healthy one.
If my darkness or eccentricity offends you, I don't really care.
I will not apologize for being me.

There is no such thing as perfect. We are beautiful as we are. With all our imperfections, we can do anything.


Kraichgauer
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Apr 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 49,751
Location: Spokane area, Washington state.

08 Apr 2024, 7:49 am

Death On Wheels, edited by Peter Haining.

Anthology of short horror stories involving automobiles. So far so good.


_________________
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


BillyTree
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 7 Oct 2023
Age: 59
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,385

08 Apr 2024, 10:19 am

The Rebel (L'Homme révolté) by Albert Camus.


_________________
English is not my first language.


The Searcher
Emu Egg
Emu Egg

Joined: 7 Apr 2024
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Posts: 7

08 Apr 2024, 9:14 pm

Democracy and Education by John Dewey

I, however, prefer Maria Montessori over John Dewey. I believe Dewey ruined education.



TwilightPrincess
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 28 Sep 2016
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Posts: 35,553

09 Apr 2024, 11:18 am

BillyTree wrote:
The Rebel (L'Homme révolté) by Albert Camus.

Do you like it? I’ve only read L’Étranger so far which was awesome.


_________________
“The darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
— from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot


IsabellaLinton
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 1 Nov 2017
Gender: Female
Posts: 72,433
Location: Chez Quis

09 Apr 2024, 11:36 am

I recommend The Plague as well. ^


I'm reading Shelley's "Epipsychidion".


_________________
I never give you my number, I only give you my situation.
Beatles


The Searcher
Emu Egg
Emu Egg

Joined: 7 Apr 2024
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Posts: 7

09 Apr 2024, 2:16 pm

BillyTree wrote:
The Rebel (L'Homme révolté) by Albert Camus.


I found Camus' work, The Myth of Sysiphus, very interesting as he tried to tackle the ultimate philosophical topic most philosophers would likely fear addressing. He helped inspire Walker Percy and his work, Lost in the Cosmos, which I found more influential since it got politically incorrect just to prove a point. It was a philosophy book for folks.



blitzkrieg
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 8 Jun 2011
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 22,045

10 Apr 2024, 3:52 pm

Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell


_________________
“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face” - Franz Kafka


kokopelli
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 27 Nov 2017
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,406
Location: amid the sunlight and the dust and the wind

11 Apr 2024, 5:26 pm

I recently stumbled across a couple of Sherlock Holmes collections of short stories on Project Gutenberg that I have never read. So I started one of them last night, His Last Bow.



jogashill
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 3 Dec 2022
Age: 53
Gender: Female
Posts: 6,602
Location: here

15 Apr 2024, 3:25 am

Caste: The origins of our discontents by Isabel Wilkerson



IsabellaLinton
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 1 Nov 2017
Gender: Female
Posts: 72,433
Location: Chez Quis

15 Apr 2024, 7:46 pm

Image


I always thought they seemed similar. 8)


_________________
I never give you my number, I only give you my situation.
Beatles


blitzkrieg
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 8 Jun 2011
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 22,045

16 Apr 2024, 2:14 pm

The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski


_________________
“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face” - Franz Kafka


BillyTree
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 7 Oct 2023
Age: 59
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,385

17 Apr 2024, 1:06 pm

TwilightPrincess wrote:
BillyTree wrote:
The Rebel (L'Homme révolté) by Albert Camus.

Do you like it? I’ve only read L’Étranger so far which was awesome.


"The Rebel" is not a work of fiction but a "book-length essay by Albert Camus, which treats both the metaphysical and the historical development of rebellion and revolution in societies, especially Western Europe. " (Wikipedia)
I prefer his novels by far, but I like The Rebel as well.


_________________
English is not my first language.


blitzkrieg
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 8 Jun 2011
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 22,045

20 Apr 2024, 2:49 pm

Wealth, Poverty, and Politics: An International Perspective by Thomas Sowell


_________________
“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face” - Franz Kafka


ChicagoLiz
Sea Gull
Sea Gull

Joined: 18 Oct 2023
Age: 65
Gender: Female
Posts: 209

20 Apr 2024, 3:09 pm

Just dropped off the last two books at the library and picked up the 'hold', which I will start reading later today: "The Framed Women of Ardmore House" by Brandy Schillace.

Description by Publishers Weekly:

Quote:
An autistic book editor stumbles into a murder mystery while attempting to claim her inheritance in this wonderful series launch from historian Schillace (Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher). After her mother dies, Josephine “Jo” Jones heads from New York City to England to take possession of her family’s long-abandoned country estate. Following a divorce and a devastating job loss, Jo plans to restore the property and start a new life. When she arrives, however, she finds caretaker Sid Randles dead in his cottage on the property. A short time later, she discovers a strange portrait of a woman who resembles one of her ancestors hidden in the main house’s attic that subsequently goes missing. She reports both incidents to the local authorities, but they’re skeptical of Jo’s outsider status and insensitive to her autism. Teaming up with new friends, including an antiques dealer and an innkeeper’s wife whom she meets in town, Jo sets out to clear her name, and find the killer and the thief before they strike again. Schillace, who’s autistic herself, draws a marvelously believable heroine in Jo, and sets her up with an expertly constructed mystery.