Ji FU wants to read The Life of Saint Macrina by Gregorius Nyssenus (Peregrina translations series -- 10 (Matrologia graeca))
On hold at the public library
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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
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Ji FU commented on Sword of Damocles by Geoffrey Thorne (Star Trek: Titan, #4)
Fate: It is an idea as old as life itself. Do our choices shape the …
On hold at the public library.
Ji FU quoted Common Prayer by Shane Claiborne
Common Prayer helps today's diverse church pray together across traditions and denominations. With an ear …
Catholics have often overemphasized singleness and the religious vocation of celibacy to the point that folks feel defeated if they don't end up being a nun, a priest, or a monk. And Protestants have nearly forgotten the gift that singleness is. Many singles groups end up being little more than opportunities to meet a spouse. Pastors pray that every kid will find the mate that God has chosen for them, forgetting the gift of singleness that Paul spoke of so highly and because of the kindom of heaven ... Our deepest longing is not for sex but for love. We can live without sex, but we cannot live without love.
— Common Prayer by Shane Claiborne (Page 166)
This is still a lesson I need to learn after 31 years of being a new creation in Christ.
Ji FU quoted Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad)
Rich Dad Poor Dad... * Explodes the myth that you need to earn a high …
Robert says real assets fall into the following categories:
- Businesses that do not require his presence: He owns them, but they are managed or run by other people. If he has to work there, its' not a business. It becomes his job.
- Stocks
- Bonds
- Income-generating real estate
- Notes (IOUs)
- Royalties from intellectual property such as music, scripts, and patents
- Anything else that has value, produces income or appreciates, and has a ready market
Acquire assets that you love.
— Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad) (Page 141)
But I don't love any of these, in fact I think most of them are evil.
But I don't love any of these, in fact I think most of them are evil.
Marcus Griffin’s Fall Guys (1937) was the best book available on the history of professional …
[Wrestlers'] ring pirouetting not only indicate a more than slight cerebral selling and concussions, but without question prove to the mothers of the world that birth control should be vested in the Margaret Sangers of the Universe.
— Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin (Page 109)
absolutely savage
Ji FU wants to read The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the …
Ji FU reviewed Valhalla by Tim Waggoner (Stargate: SG-1, #14)
Upon the legendary fields of Valhalla, the spirts of Viking warriors do eternal battle in …
A great stand-alone Stargate story
5 stars
I loved this book. One of the best SG-1 novels. Disappointed to learn this was the only won that Waggoner wrote. Jonas Quinn shows up for the first time in years. He's been working on a planetary defense system to protect Langara from the System Lords and wants Carters help reviewing their work. Carter is called away with Danniel Jackson and the rest to a planet known as Valhalla. They meet Vikings who after death on Earth have ended up here and each day battle each other and go home to get drunk and start again the next day with their comrades returning from the dead.
Quins story continues separately with their government forcing them to test the system way too early, and that goes about how you expect.
Meanwhile giant Vikings are attacking SG-1 when they find out what's really gong on after 500 years of fighting …
I loved this book. One of the best SG-1 novels. Disappointed to learn this was the only won that Waggoner wrote. Jonas Quinn shows up for the first time in years. He's been working on a planetary defense system to protect Langara from the System Lords and wants Carters help reviewing their work. Carter is called away with Danniel Jackson and the rest to a planet known as Valhalla. They meet Vikings who after death on Earth have ended up here and each day battle each other and go home to get drunk and start again the next day with their comrades returning from the dead.
Quins story continues separately with their government forcing them to test the system way too early, and that goes about how you expect.
Meanwhile giant Vikings are attacking SG-1 when they find out what's really gong on after 500 years of fighting for Odin. T'ealc and O'Neal head to Langara to get Quinn's new Naquadrium battery to fix the problem on Valhalla, just in time to get trapped.
It's really a great ending that needs to read to believe. I usually only read books I own in between waiting for inter-library loan books to get transferred between libraries, but this one I kept going back to even when I had a book with a due date to finish.
As with every other book in the Fandomonium series there is no need to have read any other ones as it is a self-contained story.
Adjusting for inflation $125/wk in 1937 works out to $175,566.08/year in 2026. Not a fortune, but as good as most of the guys in WWE are doing these days.
Marcus Griffin’s Fall Guys (1937) was the best book available on the history of professional …
It is not uncommon for a run of the mine neckbender to average one hundred and fifty dollars weekly over a period of twenty-five years. And because they wrestle so often and must be reasonable shape, matmen drop very little of this long green along Heart-break Boulevard.
— Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin (Page 18)
Oh man, I'm already loving this old-timey writing style.
Oh man, I'm already loving this old-timey writing style.
Ji FU started reading Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin
Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin
Marcus Griffin’s Fall Guys (1937) was the best book available on the history of professional wrestling in America. Griffin’s book …
Ji FU started reading Orion's Hounds by Christopher L. Bennett (Star Trek: Titan, #3)
Orion's Hounds by Christopher L. Bennett (Star Trek: Titan, #3)
As the USS Titan ventures beyond the outermost reaches of known space, the telepaths in her crew—including Diplomatic Officer Deanna …
@sifuCJC@bookwyrm.social "but at the end there was a cliff-hanger of a meta-plot. And dammit, I have to try one more..." that's how they get ya ;-)
@sifuCJC@bookwyrm.social "but at the end there was a cliff-hanger of a meta-plot. And dammit, I have to try one more..." that's how they get ya ;-)
Ji FU quoted Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad)
Rich Dad Poor Dad... * Explodes the myth that you need to earn a high …
It's fear that keeps people at a job: the fear of not paying their bills, the fear of being fired; the fear of not having enough money and the fear of starting over.
— Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad) (Page 72)
Ji FU quoted The Bible and Borders by M. Daniel Carroll R.
With so many people around the globe migrating, how should Christians and the church respond? …
The first and most important is to grasp that migration is an important metaphor of what it means to be Christian ... The early Christan knew what it means to be different within their imperial context, and they readily embraced the label "foreigner," "sojourner," or "stranger." ... Sadly, many Christians today no longer feel like "strangers in a strange land." For these Christians, this country and its culture have lost their strangeness, and they join others in wanting to keep strangers out. Perhaps it is needful to understand anew the strangeness that should mark Christian identity in the world.
— The Bible and Borders by M. Daniel Carroll R. (Page 102 - 103)
Word!