Category: Books
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Flight 7 is out.
Flight 7 is here. Well, I guess I know what I’m spending my allowance on this month. That and a $20 set of Sony headphones. (Great sound & value, by the way.)
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Made to Stick, by the brothers Heath
Do you want to read something amazing? [Â Â ] Yes [ Â ] No If you checked yes, immediately obtain a copy of Made to Stick, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. This intellectual brother act did extensive research into the techniques of the most successful teachers, leaders, and communicators they could find, and came…
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The Liberated Imagination, by Leland Ryken
The Liberated Imagination, by Ryken, warrants close study. Originally recommended to me by Connie Z., whose review is one of two on Amazon, I was flipping through this again last night, and was encouraged and provoked by it. If I were going to get together with other Christians to talk about art and God, I…
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Sometimes I have good problems…
Like, do I read Fahrenheit 451 or keep working away at War & Peace tonight? Decisions, decisions… [EDIT: I read Fahrenheit 451.]
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“The novel is a Christian form of writing.”
Here’s a fascinating thought I came across today. It was a small step from Puritan journal writing to John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Both are interior adventure stories that paved the way for character development in the novel. Edward Said, a leading Palestinian scholar, pointed out that “the novel is…