All Star Superman, Vol. 1 and All Star Superman, Vol. 2 I don’t often read graphic novels anymore, and much less Superman (a friend once said that the main challenges that Superman face boil down to his “lifting things”), but my brother gave me these to read, and so – with no exams in the …
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book: the hungry cat
I’m not citing this as a book I’ve only recently read – I haven’t seen it around in years. Phyllis King’s The Hungry Cat is a book that teaches counting in an unorthodox way. The cat goes to a restaurant, eats the entire menu, in increasing quantity, and then feels sick, and rids himself of …
book: Counterfeit Gods
Book: Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters I somehow managed to read this in 24 hours, as part of preparing a sermon on how we make money into an idol. In just a few chapters – the book is 178 small-ish pages long – Keller …
Book: The Last Word and the Word After That
Book: The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity The third book in the New Kind of Christian trilogy (I’ve already read A New Kind of Christian and The Story We Find Ourselves In) takes an odd turn – it changes the name of …
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Book: The Story We Find Ourselves In
Book: The Story We Find Ourselves In. The second book in the “New Kind of Christian” trilogy by Brian McLaren. The first book – A New Kind of Christian – introduces the characters, and delivers a stack of different doctrinal ideas, many of which have been picked up by a range of people who have …
Book: A New Kind of Christian
Book: A New Kind of Christian In response to the recent article and blog posts about author Brian McLaren, a friend of mine who I respect (but often disagree with) recommended that I read one of McLaren’s earlier, but highly influential works: A New Kind of Christian. The book is a highly readable story about …
Book: Religion Saves: and nine other misconceptions
Audio Book: Religion Saves: and nine other misconceptions Mark Driscoll is the lead pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, and this book was based on a sermon series that Mark preached at his church. Each chapter is devoted to answering a question that was crowd-sourced from visitors to the Mars Hill Church website. …
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Book: The Paradox of Choice
Book: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less Jordan blogged a while back about the nature of choices, and I mentioned in a comment there that I was wanting to read this book. Of course, the book goes into a lot more detail than a blog post could: in this review I’ll try and …
Book: Blue Ocean Strategy
Book: Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant It’s been a while since I’ve read something that was so obviously a business book, but this was recommended by someone whose opinion I trust, and subsequently backed up by other recommendations. My initial plan was to skim read it, but …
Book: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Book: Me Talk Pretty One Day Popular writer David Sedaris (we actually went to see him at the State Theatre a couple of weeks ago) put together this New York Times bestseller; it’s a range of short essays, based on observations from his life and childhood, and – in the second half – from his …