What are you reading?

[bèlla]

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[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

Calvin Miller - Guardians of the Singreale

 

[LadyOfMystery]

I'm currently going between 12 different books:

The Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Game of Thrones book 1 by George R R Martin


Whew! lol

 

[Sif]

Quickly finished 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. I am going to read the sequel, 2010: Odyssey Two. It is more of a sequel to the film as the Monolith is near the Io Lagrange point in the Jupiter system as opposed to Iapetus in the Saturn system.

 

[public hermit]

From Plato to Platonism by Lloyd P. Gerson

 

[.Mikha'el.]

I've just started

 

[worshipjunkie]

The Life of Christ by Fulton Sheen, and The Way of Divine Love.

 

[bèlla]

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[High Fidelity]

Dialogues and Essays by Seneca
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holliday
Enchiridion by Epictetus
Sixteenth Watch by Myke Cole
The Republic and the Laws by Cicero
On Obligations by Cicero
The Faber Book of Beasts by Paul Muldoon

 

[LadyOfMystery]

Finished Little Women.

Updated list of books Im going between:

Brooklyn
Catching Fire
Cole & Sav (Bio/Non Fiction)
The Escape Room
A Game of Thrones (almost done with book 1!)
The Horse & His Boy
The Kind Worth Killing
The Silent Patient
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Watership Down
The Woman in White
The Woman on the Edge

 

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Well, I picked up Hillbilly Elegy today at the library and am halfway thru it. Still waiting for the part where his life was turned around despite the family dysfunction and he goes to Yale.

It's going to be interesting to read the aftermath of his life considering his history. Is he going to be just an educated person that's severely warped by his surroundings? Or does God make a genuine healing and deliverance story from this? Yes, Yale is an impressive feat but not impossible.

Another thing I've noted is what he had to say regarding his biological dad's Christian background and its legalism. That part really made me thankful. I'm grateful I escaped the rigors of religious bindings when I first came to Christ. A lot of new found believers give up when that stuff hits them. And sadly, many perpetuate the same kind of stuff he talks about in his book. On this forum even. Not much in Singles. But definitely in other parts.

 

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Just finished Hillbilly Elegy. And I have to say..A tinge of anger rose up in me after reading it. Here is a guy that overcame tremendous obstacles to get where he's at, yet I didn't read a single line in that book where he gave any credit to God for his accomplishments. The man is definitely a lost soul. Moreover, I just pray for him. What advantages it for a man to gain the whole world but forfeit his soul?

 

[kittysbecute]

Finished Little Women.

ooh I need to catch up on Little Women!

A few of the books I’m reading currently:
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- What Are You Afraid of? by Dr. David Jeremiah
- The bible

I’m reading/wanting to read a couple others but this week I’m focusing on those ones.

 

[LadyOfMystery]

ooh I need to catch up on Little Women!

A few of the books I’m reading currently:
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- What Are You Afraid of? by Dr. David Jeremiah
- The bible

I’m reading/wanting to read a couple others but this week I’m focusing on those ones.

How is "What Are You Afraid Of?" I should read that as well.

 

[bèlla]

Just finished Hillbilly Elegy. And I have to say..A tinge of anger rose up in me after reading it. Here is a guy that overcame tremendous obstacles to get where he's at, yet I didn't read a single line in that book where he gave any credit to God for his accomplishments. The man is definitely a lost soul. Moreover, I just pray for him. What advantages it for a man to gain the whole world but forfeit his soul?

Why are you angry? Given the degree of serial dysfunction he experienced you’re lucky he isn’t a meth addict, locked up or dead. The compassion he showed his mother and value for family while determined to take a different course isn’t easy.

It isn’t a Christian book. It’s a socioeconomic memoir about a group left behind in today’s economy. The mainstream doesn’t report stories like his because it doesn’t fit the narrative and no one cares.

I read books like that to gain perspective on different cultures whose lives aren’t like mine. If you understood the world he stepped into at Yale you’d grasp the unlikeness of that story coming to light. Most would embrace the change and never look back. It’s in reflection the author sees the difference others made in his ending. Who’s to say what God has in store.

~Bella

 

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Why are you angry? Who’s to say what God has in store.

~Bella

The same reason God would be for someone robbing Him of the glory that He deserves. I say this as someone who knows God's heart. There's no reason for me to stay that way though. I can't properly pray for someone in that state can I?

 

[bèlla]

The same reason God would be for someone robbing Him of the glory that He deserves. I say this as someone who knows God's heart. There's no reason for me to stay that way though. I can't properly pray for someone in that state can I?

Anger serves no purpose. I suspect the book is part of the healing process. The laundry list of men he was subjected to and all he didn’t admit is disturbing.

When you father children you’ll understand the preciousness of their innocence and trust. And view situations like these through different eyes. A lot of the dysfunction we see in society began with incompetency at home. Flattening the curve would go a long way in restoring compassion in our culture.

For the record, most children with that degree of strangers in the homes are often molested.

~Bella

 

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On a scale from 1 to 5 in terms of the degree of abuse and dysfunction someone can suffer in childhood/life I'd rank his experience (at least from what he revealed) at a 3.5. I've known people with more severe horror stories than his. And FTR: My childhood was just as bad as his. (no worse or better) The difference is I accepted the call of Christ and am HIs chosen. Can I take claim or credit for that? Not hardly. It's His grace that worked in me very extensively and still does to this day. You're right. The anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
It does have it's place though if we funnel it toward the positive rather than the negative.
I'm talking about human terms, however. Because the kind of judgment the people of the world are under is in God's hands; not ours. Our job is just to love them and tell them the truth.