Just For Fun

[Messerve]

Pick up the book closest to where you are right now. What is the title?

For myself, the closest published book is surprisingly two rooms away and it is Snoopy and "It was a Dark and Stormy Night"

However, the closest non-published book would be a beat up little notebook where I keep internet passwords and random phone call jottings.

 

[Messerve]

It's really a very odd but creative book...

 

[.Mikha'el.]

Learn Library of Congress Subject Headings.

 

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

Gordon MacDonald - Ordering Your Private World

Closest thing to a non-published book I have are papers I've collected with notes for a novella I'm going to put together based on the life of Gamaliel.

 

[Messerve]

Learn Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Sounds exciting...

 

[Messerve]

Gordon MacDonald - Ordering Your Private World

Closest thing to a non-published book I have are papers I've collected with notes for a novella I'm going to put together based on the life of Gamaliel.

I hope your book about Gamaliel works out. It's sounds very interesting!

 

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

I hope your book about Gamaliel works out. It's sounds very interesting!

Yeah, I'm taking many instances where the lives of the Pharisees and religious leaders intersect with Jesus Christ. Some of it will be conjecture, but I'm hoping for a good story. Thanks!

 

[Joined2krist]

One minute millionaire

 

[Messerve]

One minute millionaire

Interesting... I assume you're either a millionaire or you haven't finished reading the book yet.

 

[Sif]

Lord of the Rings

 

[Messerve]

Lord of the Rings

But which one?

 

[Joined2krist]

Interesting... I assume you're either a millionaire or you haven't finished reading the book yet.

I'm getting there

 

[Sif]

But which one?

The particular copy I am referring to is a single volume (all three books in one).
Apparently that was how Tolkien originally intended to have it published, as a single volume, not three separate but his publisher requested it be written as a trilogy

 

[kittysbecute]

Troubling A Star by Madeleine L'Engle
I haven't read it and I'm not sure what it is about. But I found it for $1 at a library book sale and since I like other books by that author I thought I'd buy it.

The particular copy I am referring to is a single volume (all three books in one).
Apparently that was how Tolkien originally intended to have it published, as a single volume, not three separate but his publisher requested it be written as a trilogy

It definitely makes the most sense as a single volume. I found it interesting that they are actually separated into 6 "books". Two per each title. I should definitely reread LotR this summer. It's been a very long while since I've read it all the way through.

 

[JAM2b]

The Lion of Judah: How Jesus Completes Biblical Judaism and Why Judaism and Christianity Separated
By: Rabbi Kirt A Schneider

 

[High Fidelity]

Practical Computer Vision Applications Using Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks.

In my defence I've never been known for exciting bedtime reading lol.

 

[JAM2b]

I have the outline of several books next to me at my desk, none of them finished. Nothing I have finished has been picked up by a publisher or agent. I keep plugging along though.

My latest thing I'm trying, along with continuing on my works in progress, is to start a memoir and family history writing business. I'm also wanting to transcribe cursive writing into print for all these youngsters who never got taught how to write it or how to spell (don't get me started on what the school system did to my kid!)

 

[Messerve]

The particular copy I am referring to is a single volume (all three books in one).
Apparently that was how Tolkien originally intended to have it published, as a single volume, not three separate but his publisher requested it be written as a trilogy

Interesting! I didn't know. I probably never would have tried to read it, though, if it had been all one book...

 

[Messerve]

Troubling A Star by Madeleine L'Engle
I haven't read it and I'm not sure what it is about. But I found it for $1 at a library book sale and since I like other books by that author I thought I'd buy it.



It definitely makes the most sense as a single volume. I found it interesting that they are actually separated into 6 "books". Two per each title. I should definitely reread LotR this summer. It's been a very long while since I've read it all the way through.

Troubling a Star is the last full-length novel in the Austin family series by Madeleine L'Engle. The young adult suspense thriller, published in 1994, reunites L'Engle's most frequent protagonist, Vicky Austin, with Adam Eddington, both of whom become enmeshed in international intrigue as they travel separately to Antarctica.
That actually sounds really exciting. You should read it!

 

[Messerve]

The Lion of Judah: How Jesus Completes Biblical Judaism and Why Judaism and Christianity Separated
By: Rabbi Kirt A Schneider

So is the author not a Messianic Jew?