Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de for now everything I post here is automatically "re-tooted" there.
What the award-winning Boundaries has done for adult relationships, Boundaries with Kids will do for …
If you never disagree witlh the person you love, something is terbly wrong.
Some people are afraid to be themselves with another person. Such fear negates love. The Bible says that perfect love drives out fear" (1 John 4:18). You can't really love someone with whom you can't be separate. That is, love does not mean losing yourself, but rather frees you and empowers you
to be yourself.
As a follow up to his autobiography, Paddle Your Own Canoe, the star of Parks …
I'm only on disc 2 but so far I'm pretty disappointed. He's an atheist jerk. Offerman is pretty adamant that angels are mythical creatures like faires and Pegasus, that those who evangalize (he says try to convince people to join their religion) are breaking the spirit, though not the law, of the first amendment, and that Jesus hangs his head (when doing what he commissioned us to do as his last action in Matthew). Also he seems to be of the option the 2nd amendment is for protecting the right of hunting, like the right to keep and bare a fishing pole.
Good but not great novel of one man's small part in revolutionary Russia.
3 stars
This book was pretty good, but one thing it is not is juvenile fiction: sex, murder, adultery, orgy, I don't want to expose my young adult to any of that. Thankfully it wasn't too graphic, though the description of the Tsar's son's hemophilia was more than enough to make me quesey and put the book down more than once.
The first part is told like a fairy tale. I'm usually not too big on symbolism, to the point I argued with my hush school English teacher that it didn't exist. Regardless it's quite clear the bear is the Russian people and Vlad and Leo are Trotsky and Lenin.
I almost thought that part was actually more interesting than the actual historical fiction part with English author Arthur Ransom and his Russian mistress. I was surprised that Ransom returned to England to be with his daughter for a time as in …
This book was pretty good, but one thing it is not is juvenile fiction: sex, murder, adultery, orgy, I don't want to expose my young adult to any of that. Thankfully it wasn't too graphic, though the description of the Tsar's son's hemophilia was more than enough to make me quesey and put the book down more than once.
The first part is told like a fairy tale. I'm usually not too big on symbolism, to the point I argued with my hush school English teacher that it didn't exist. Regardless it's quite clear the bear is the Russian people and Vlad and Leo are Trotsky and Lenin.
I almost thought that part was actually more interesting than the actual historical fiction part with English author Arthur Ransom and his Russian mistress. I was surprised that Ransom returned to England to be with his daughter for a time as in the fairy tale we are told of the foreigner with the briefcase having Russian air in his lungs for the rest of his life.
I still don't understand why he wanted to leave his wife Ivy, and I couldn't imagine my wife making my life so miserable that I would be willing to live thousands of miles from my daughter.
All in all it was a nice quick read before bed a few nights and I would be willing to pick up a couple of the real Ransom's books.
I was disappointed in how little of the actual October revolution there was in almost 300 pages.
The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel by American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in …
Not very good
2 stars
I went into listening to this audiobook not really knowing a lot about it save its title and that it was popular enough to have been made into a movie.
This is not really a science fiction book at all, even though the title would lead you to believe. The Time Travel of the title is no Jules Verne character but a 21st century heart throb who has some kind of disease that forces him into other points in time without his ability to anything about. He can't take anything with him, so he always shows up naked, so he spends most of his time running and trying to find clothes. Somehow one of those naked adventures was to meet a 7 year old girl who would end up being his wife.
At the begining they author made it very clear that there are no multiverses, there is no possibility …
I went into listening to this audiobook not really knowing a lot about it save its title and that it was popular enough to have been made into a movie.
This is not really a science fiction book at all, even though the title would lead you to believe. The Time Travel of the title is no Jules Verne character but a 21st century heart throb who has some kind of disease that forces him into other points in time without his ability to anything about. He can't take anything with him, so he always shows up naked, so he spends most of his time running and trying to find clothes. Somehow one of those naked adventures was to meet a 7 year old girl who would end up being his wife.
At the begining they author made it very clear that there are no multiverses, there is no possibility of screwing up the past or the future, stuff just happens.
The worst part of it, however, is the overly descriptive passages about dead babies. Clair and Henry loose something like 5 different kids, eventually learning that they are time traveling out of Clair's womb without the needed connection to mom to survive. This is the main reason it took me months to finish it, because I kept having to turn it off due to how nauseated it made my stomach.
