Books books books..
At Barnes and Noble on monday, I found several interesting books.
One was a book I had heard of on Mars Hill Audio (they had an interview with the author), called something like "The degradation of language in music and speech and why we should like care." It looks like a very good book, definitely an area I need to improve on.
Another interesting book was Winston Churchill: His Life and Paintings. Churchill was a prolific painter, which is something I had never known till watching the BBC documentary on him. On that note, at Half Price they had JRR Tolkien: Illustrator (or something like that), which contains just about every painting, drawing, and sketch that is available. Turns out Tolkien was a very skilled artist too. Apparently he designed many of the elvish crests that they used in the movies. For 1$ at Half price I got a large book on Norman Rockwell. This is the first time in a while that I've been to Half price to buy books for myself in a while.(as opposed to buying them to resell on the Amazon.com) I also got a Leonardo da Vinci day calendar, a Book of essays on literature and Film, a book on Drawing, and a book on American inventors all for about 10 bucks.
For Christmas, I got my mother Miniatures and Morals: the Christian Novels of Jane Austin by Peter J Liethart. But she lets me read it too. ;) It's really fascinating, Liethart is becoming one of my favorite Authors (after A House for My Name, Against Christianity, his Blog and a few lectures) I've only read one Austin book so far, Pride and Prejudice, but she is now on my list of Authors that I want read all their books. I've also just ordered Wise Words by Leithart, which is a bunch of Fairy Tales based on the Proverbs. I'll probably read it aloud to by little brother and sisters. I also started reading another Canon Press book, Fidelity by Doug Wilson, a very frank look at sex from a biblical perspective.
I'm about a quarter of the way through the fifth Harry Potter book, which is of course good. Its funny though, because I am both listening to the Audiobook, and reading it (not the same chapters of course)
I just checked out 3 books from the A&M Corpus Library, which is not nearly as good as the real A&M library. One is called Utopias, Dolphins, and Computers by Mary Midgly (another author interviewed on mars hill) who is a conservative (possibly Christian?) British philosopher. I've only read a few pages, but its really interesting, in her words it's a book on Philosophical pluming. I also checked out Painters of Faith by Gene Edward Veith, another one of my fav. Authors; and Bright Colors Seen Falsely, a profoundly interesting book on Synesthesia, Which I will post on next.
One was a book I had heard of on Mars Hill Audio (they had an interview with the author), called something like "The degradation of language in music and speech and why we should like care." It looks like a very good book, definitely an area I need to improve on.
Another interesting book was Winston Churchill: His Life and Paintings. Churchill was a prolific painter, which is something I had never known till watching the BBC documentary on him. On that note, at Half Price they had JRR Tolkien: Illustrator (or something like that), which contains just about every painting, drawing, and sketch that is available. Turns out Tolkien was a very skilled artist too. Apparently he designed many of the elvish crests that they used in the movies. For 1$ at Half price I got a large book on Norman Rockwell. This is the first time in a while that I've been to Half price to buy books for myself in a while.(as opposed to buying them to resell on the Amazon.com) I also got a Leonardo da Vinci day calendar, a Book of essays on literature and Film, a book on Drawing, and a book on American inventors all for about 10 bucks.
For Christmas, I got my mother Miniatures and Morals: the Christian Novels of Jane Austin by Peter J Liethart. But she lets me read it too. ;) It's really fascinating, Liethart is becoming one of my favorite Authors (after A House for My Name, Against Christianity, his Blog and a few lectures) I've only read one Austin book so far, Pride and Prejudice, but she is now on my list of Authors that I want read all their books. I've also just ordered Wise Words by Leithart, which is a bunch of Fairy Tales based on the Proverbs. I'll probably read it aloud to by little brother and sisters. I also started reading another Canon Press book, Fidelity by Doug Wilson, a very frank look at sex from a biblical perspective.
I'm about a quarter of the way through the fifth Harry Potter book, which is of course good. Its funny though, because I am both listening to the Audiobook, and reading it (not the same chapters of course)
I just checked out 3 books from the A&M Corpus Library, which is not nearly as good as the real A&M library. One is called Utopias, Dolphins, and Computers by Mary Midgly (another author interviewed on mars hill) who is a conservative (possibly Christian?) British philosopher. I've only read a few pages, but its really interesting, in her words it's a book on Philosophical pluming. I also checked out Painters of Faith by Gene Edward Veith, another one of my fav. Authors; and Bright Colors Seen Falsely, a profoundly interesting book on Synesthesia, Which I will post on next.
posted by Stejahen at 10:21 PM
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Hey!
Where are you at and why? You sound like you are stationary in Rockport. Am I missing something? E-mail!
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