So, What Are You Reading?

Read Roy Blount, Jr.'s Robert E. Lee.

 

Read Elizabeth Blackwell's Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women.

 

Emily Carr Country - Portrayed by Courtney Milne. Foreword by Robert Bateman. It's a coffee-table book, quotes from Emily Carr, some explanatory text and magnificent landscape photography by Milne. Inspiring. Courtney Milne is known as a photographer to whom conveying the spirituality of the place is of paramount importance in his work. Here, I feel he succeeds brilliantly.

Another $2 find - new condition - at the local Salvation Army. (Original Canadian price -$60.00)

Question for Ted Heiks:

Years ago, our large, 5-floor Goodwill Store closed. It had always done some trade in books. The store used to get me a little upset, though. Every time I passed it, I saw the Manager's luxurious, smart Cadillac in her reserved space. I didn't think that was appropriate in connection with Goodwill -- or is it?

(I ask Ted, as he reported a little while back that he is now working in the book section of a Goodwill Store.)

Johann

 

Although I put the question to Ted, I also welcome responses from anyone else.

J.

 

RC Sproul's "Reformed Theology"

 

Understanding Dispensationalists, by Vern S. Poythress

 

Currently reading Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Other books "in progress" include: A Canticle for Leibowitz and First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong.

 

True, Steve. I guess my common sense temporarily evaporates when I see a really expensive car in a place geared (mostly) to people short on resources. I didn't think it through. Thanks.

Johann

 

Read Thomas Keneally's Abraham Lincoln.

 

Read Marley Brant's Jesse James: The Man and the Myth.

 

Read Carl W. Breihan's The Escapades of Frank and Jesse James.

 

Read Manners and Customs of Bible Times(Holman Rerference).

 

Read Fred H. Wright's Manners and Customs of Bible Lands.

 

Read Richard L. McElroy's James A. Garfield: His Life and Times: A Pictorial History.

 

Resumed reading Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Over half done. Plutarch is 800+ pages of very small print (at least in the Great Books edition).

 

Today I am reading Megatrends by John Naisbitt. It was originally published in the early '80s. Easy to read it's full of interesting ideas.

 

Ted: Read Richard L. McElroy's James A. Garfield: His Life and Times: A Pictorial History.

John: I've read a few times respectable authors suggesting that he may have been one of the smartest Presidents we've had. Do you have any sense of that from this book (which I'm not familiar with)? -John

 

I didn't sense that from this book.

 

The Jesus You Can't Ignore by John McArthur
America's Other Party: A Brief History of the Prohibition Party by C. L. Gammon