Ji FU started reading Mayor Kane by Glenn Jacobs
The surprising story of how wrestling superstar Glenn "Kane" Jacobs beat all the odds to …
I miss having a CD player built into my car.
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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.
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Ji FU wants to read Selections from Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion" is the world-changing book of Christian theology by John Calvin, …
I don't understand the idea of predestination, I figured who better to learn from than Calvin himself. @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world @robin1@diaspora.psyco.fr
Ji FU reviewed On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
Good high level but not the meat & potatoes
3 stars
On Anarchism was a collection of short essay that wasn't really what I was expecting. I was hoping for examples, or at least ideas, of how anarchism would actually work in the real world. How we'd get from an idea to a product without a profit motive. What I got instead was basically a label for my wife. She doesn't think governments should exist but while they do she supports a large welfare state to take care of the people. Chomsky appears to be the same. It was well written and well cited, and otherwise awesome if I had gone in with different expectations it might be getting a 5 instead of a three.
If someone has a recommendation for a different book on anarchism that actually answers my questions I would appreciate it.
Ji FU wants to read Raise the Dawn (DS9-Relaunch #27) by David R. George III
The second novel in a two-part Typhon Pact adventure set in the universe of Star …
Next one up in the DS9 Relaunch
The first novel in a two-part Typhon Pact adventure set in the universe of Star …
The second half was great
4 stars
I really felt this was a book of two halves. The first half just didn't keep my interest. Lots of set-up of characters, new ones we haven't met and some new ones just being introduced now. The middle we get a meeting of the Typhon Pact presidents and those of the Khitomer accords, including the newly added Cardassians and Ferengi. Only then does it start to get adventurous and good like a Star Trek Novel should.
The Enterprise, still captained by Jean-Luc now married to Beverly Crusher, who is only mentioned & not seen, goes to the Gamma Quadrent with a Romulan Warbird to explore space together as a sign of peace. U.S.S. Robinson, now captained by Ben Sisko, is doing routine star mapping in the Quadrent including a diplomatic rendezvous with the Vahni Vahltupal, who I personally had been wondering about whatever happened to them just days before I …
I really felt this was a book of two halves. The first half just didn't keep my interest. Lots of set-up of characters, new ones we haven't met and some new ones just being introduced now. The middle we get a meeting of the Typhon Pact presidents and those of the Khitomer accords, including the newly added Cardassians and Ferengi. Only then does it start to get adventurous and good like a Star Trek Novel should.
The Enterprise, still captained by Jean-Luc now married to Beverly Crusher, who is only mentioned & not seen, goes to the Gamma Quadrent with a Romulan Warbird to explore space together as a sign of peace. U.S.S. Robinson, now captained by Ben Sisko, is doing routine star mapping in the Quadrent including a diplomatic rendezvous with the Vahni Vahltupal, who I personally had been wondering about whatever happened to them just days before I happened to read that part. All while back on DS9 Ro and her crew investigate some strange feelings, hunches, readings, etc. which may be all made up, or may be a terrorist plot to destroy the station by the Andorians, or maybe someone else making it look like the Andorians.
David George is one of the best Star Trek authors eloquently putting together scene by scene unrelated characters just like an episode with several plots. If I know George, I suspect the setup he did will eventually be revealed as non-superfioulous I'm not sure how it could have been made exciting.
Ji FU started reading The Pipe and Christ by William Stolzman
This book is the result of a six-year dialogue between Sioux medicine men and Christian …
Was sitting in my pipe cabinet with a bookmark at chapter 2.
Ji FU started reading Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best …
Picked up from the Library today. Appears as if I'm the first guy to borrow it in 100 years.
Ji FU wants to read Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling
A collection of short stories originally published in 1909.
I wanted to read "through the night mail" and this was the collection my local library had that contained it.
Ji FU wants to read Independence! by Dana Fuller Ross
The year is 1837. The American West is untamed, uncivilized, and largely unclaimed. U.S. President …
I bought this for my dad for Christmas a few years ago because I saw it at the bookstore and I know he likes cowboys. He got into it so much it read practically the whole series from the public library, until he eventually decided it was trashy romance novels in chaps. Now I want to see what all the fuss was about.
Ji FU wants to read Christians at the Border by M. Daniel Carroll R.
Immigration is one of the most pressing issues on the national agenda. In this accessible …
I'm hoping to get a new perspective on why loving our neighbor and open borders are intertwined. In particular I'm hoping for new apologia to convince my fellow Christians of the need for open borders and there having been drawn into closed border xenophobia by fear and the devil.
Ji FU started reading The American Zone by L. Neil Smith
In the North American Confederacy . . . People are free—really free. Free to do …
The Final book the North American Confederacy Series. Finally back to Win Bear and where it all began
Ji FU stopped reading A Little God Time for Couples by Michelle Winger
Spending quality time together as a couple can be difficult, but it's incredibly important for …
Unfortunatley the Mrs. and I have fell off of this.
Ji FU wants to read On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
I have had a hard time explaining to my friend and neighbors how libertarian socialism goes from an idea to reality. How products are made and market demands met. I'm hoping Chomsky will help me with that.
Ji FU reviewed Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and …
A childhood favorite
3 stars
I wanted to buy a copy of one of my children favorites. It wasn't quite as entertaining as I remember, but the pictures where better, I was pleasantly surprised to find they were done by Robert Lawson
Ji FU started reading A Little God Time for Couples by Michelle Winger
Spending quality time together as a couple can be difficult, but it's incredibly important for …
My wife brought this home from Ollie's Discount store a couple of weeks ago, and we are actually reading it!