books to end with
well, one of my goals was to finish a book (by michael pollan) i have been working through all year. i didn't do it. i guess it will make a great goal for next year....i just hope it does not actually take me all of 2009.
here is what i did get to read as i finished up finals for one of my classes.... they wrote - i read. now i have to grade...yipee!!!
sidewalks in the kingdom. a good read about why it is a good thing that christians live in cities. i loved how he talked about how we have to bump shoulders with our neighbors because of the culture of the city. i could relate to many of his examples as i have often gotten help on and off the subway, buses, out of the grocery store, etc. i did appreciate his discussion of how the american love of their automobiles has replaced our love of community and that sub-urban sparwl has evoked individualism at the cost of corporate identity within the church. at some point, i thought he was long winded but still found it to be an encouraging read while at the same time pinpointing some of the things that really are hard about city living... or at least some of the things that i think are hard about city living.
the septembers of shiraz. a good first novel. i picked it up because it was on display at the library. not the most amazing book i have ever read, but i was interested in the time frame of post shah iran. i appreciated the different points of view through out the novel, but the end fell a bit flat. i think the parts that were the most interesting were probably autobiographical. i think i also liked it more because we happen to watch the kite runner movie as the time lines overlap (not countries, but timelines).... as does charlie wilson's war, which we just watch as well.
i have to start working on my 2009 reading list.... i have to get cracking on my january book club book. i can finally go because NO MORE TEACHING ON SATURDAYS!!
oh and by the way.... 10 weeks till baby girl sweets due date! not that i am counting.
here is what i did get to read as i finished up finals for one of my classes.... they wrote - i read. now i have to grade...yipee!!!
sidewalks in the kingdom. a good read about why it is a good thing that christians live in cities. i loved how he talked about how we have to bump shoulders with our neighbors because of the culture of the city. i could relate to many of his examples as i have often gotten help on and off the subway, buses, out of the grocery store, etc. i did appreciate his discussion of how the american love of their automobiles has replaced our love of community and that sub-urban sparwl has evoked individualism at the cost of corporate identity within the church. at some point, i thought he was long winded but still found it to be an encouraging read while at the same time pinpointing some of the things that really are hard about city living... or at least some of the things that i think are hard about city living.
the septembers of shiraz. a good first novel. i picked it up because it was on display at the library. not the most amazing book i have ever read, but i was interested in the time frame of post shah iran. i appreciated the different points of view through out the novel, but the end fell a bit flat. i think the parts that were the most interesting were probably autobiographical. i think i also liked it more because we happen to watch the kite runner movie as the time lines overlap (not countries, but timelines).... as does charlie wilson's war, which we just watch as well.i have to start working on my 2009 reading list.... i have to get cracking on my january book club book. i can finally go because NO MORE TEACHING ON SATURDAYS!!
oh and by the way.... 10 weeks till baby girl sweets due date! not that i am counting.
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and keep on with the pollan book! so good.