Friday Finds 12/23/11

Friday Finds is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just share the new-to-you books you found during the week — books you either want to add to your TBR (to be read) list, or that you just heard about that sounded interesting. If you’ve discovered them this week, share them with us  in the comments or post the link to your blog post where you shared them.

   

Christology and the New Testament: Jesus and His  Earliest Followers – CBD | Amazon | B&N

Mere Humanity: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien on the Human Condition – CBD | Amazon | B&N

Teaser Tuesday 12/20/11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser

“This tree flooded me with a sensation of alarm all the way to my tingling fingers. My head began to feel unnaturally light, and the vague rustling sounds from the nearby woods came to me as though muffled and filtered.”

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Musing Mondays 12/19/11

Hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading, this week’s musing asks… What’s one book you always recommend to just about anyone?

I have to break this up into fiction and non-fiction… believe me, it’s hard enough doing it this way. To pick just one altogether would be impossible.

 For fiction, it would have to be Black by Ted Dekker. When I first read this I was already a fan of Ted Dekker having read three or four other books by him, but Black is the first of four novels in his Circle series. In my opinion it comes close to The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings. This was the one that blew me out of the water and turned me into a true Dekkie.

 

 

 For non-fiction, it’s definitely C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. And yes, I do suggest this book to everyone, not just Christians. In this book Lewis explains what drew him, an atheist, to Christianity. He lays out the basic beliefs and explains them as he understands them and, in some instances, how he viewed them before. For a non-Christian, especially an atheist, this could be an interesting read. Maybe it could help them understand why people are drawn to Jesus. For the Christian reader, there is definite encouragement and edification in this book. I highly recommend it.

Teaser Tuesday 12/6/11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read •Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser

“I felt sorry when I came to the last page. I wanted to crawl in between those back lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig tree.”

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Teaser Tuesday 8/23/11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 

My Teaser

If anything happened to this kid, the professor would never forgive himself. The young man was more than just a brilliant protege; he was like a son.

False Witness
by Randy Singer

Teaser Tuesday 8/16/11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

“I got your note, and I cannot agree with what you have to say. A letter like that can be seen as nothing but a threat – and a threat to commit murder – if I don’t comply.”

The Dopple Ganger Chronicles: The Great Mogul Diamond
by G.P. Taylor

Teaser Tuesday 7/12/11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My teaser:
The wizard blew puffs of cloud out of his mouth like smoke rings. They formed into letters spelling plague and floated above his librarian’s head.

The Dragons of Chiril
by Donita K. Paul

Friday Finds 6/24/11

Friday Finds is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just share the new-to-you books you found during the week — books you either want to add to your TBR (to be read) list, or that you just heard about that sounded interesting. If you’ve discovered them this week, share them with us  in the comments or post the link to your blog post where you shared them.

              
Theology in the Context of World Christianity by Timothy C. Tennent – CBD | Amazon | B&N | Zondervan

Why God Won’t Go Away by Alister McGrath – CBD | Amazon | B&N | Thomas Nelson

Four Views on the Book of Revelation by C. Marvin Pate - CBD | Amazon | B&N | Zondervan

Three Views on Creation and Evolution by J. P. Moreland – CBD | Amazon | B&N | Zondervan

Teaser Tuesday 6/21/11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My teaser:
There were other memories, so distant the girl couldn’t be sure they weren’t imagined. A “before” time and place that held painted walls and smooth tile beaneath her feet.

Freedom’s Stand
by J. M. Windle

Teaser Tuesday 6/14/11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My teaser:
I lied just now when I said I had been a mean official. I lied out of sheer spite.

Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky