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.
Blendin Blandin is searching for the legendary Time Pirates' Treasure, and he needs Dipper and …
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2 stars
The illustrations were great. I liked that unlike traditional "Choose your own adventure" they weren't written in some weird second person perspective (e.g. "you took a step to the right and found a rock") and instead allowed you to make the decision of a particular third person the person of whom changes throughout the book depending on what makes sense for the story.
I found the story itself was kind of lame and I still couldn't get my 12-year-old interested in reading even though she's a huge Gravity Falls fan.
The second novel in a two-part Typhon Pact adventure set in the universe of Star …
The new Deep Space Nine you didn't know you needed
5 stars
Wow! George has always been one of my favorite Star Trek authors but this blew me away.
The book begins seconds before the previous novel ended. U.S.S. Robinson exits the worm whole to find explosions galore and Sisko may never be the same again.
It's certainly an odd story though. 400 pages, only 24 chapters, but a prologue and an epilogue that make up 100 of those pages.
The Romulan praetor is committed to peace even when everything the Romulans have been doing leads the rest of the universe to believe otherwise, but she goes to great lengths to make it reality.
The leaps between the real world, the past, the wormhole are written so amazingly that something that should be incredibly confusing is even easier to follow than if it was in front of your face, and I have never had so may out loud physical emotional responses to …
Wow! George has always been one of my favorite Star Trek authors but this blew me away.
The book begins seconds before the previous novel ended. U.S.S. Robinson exits the worm whole to find explosions galore and Sisko may never be the same again.
It's certainly an odd story though. 400 pages, only 24 chapters, but a prologue and an epilogue that make up 100 of those pages.
The Romulan praetor is committed to peace even when everything the Romulans have been doing leads the rest of the universe to believe otherwise, but she goes to great lengths to make it reality.
The leaps between the real world, the past, the wormhole are written so amazingly that something that should be incredibly confusing is even easier to follow than if it was in front of your face, and I have never had so may out loud physical emotional responses to ANY book, let alone any Star Trek book.
They arrived - tens of thousands of extraterrestrial beings - in huge …
First devoured the NBC Mini-Series/Mini-Series Sequel/V The Series on NEtflix like 10 years ago, watched the ABC Re-boot TV Series in less than 2 days last week on Tubi. Can't get my fix, so time to start on the books, was going to start on Book 2, but now that I've seen the reboot, I need a reminder of the OG so the novelization it is.
A priest with a lightsaber?
With these adventures and anecdotes, Fr. Roderick Vönhogen shares his …
Much better than I expected.
5 stars
If you are a Catholic, a Star Wars fan, a runner, someone concerned about mental health or a podcaster, I recommend this book.
Geekpriest is about the adventures of an unexpected priest from a rural town in the Netherlands. He tells the story of how he grew up a Catholic, and even most people in his Catholic school thought the church teachings where dumb, he wanted to become a comic book artist, but was drawn to the priesthood, against his parents' wishes.
He wrote a hand coded website about the rumors surrounding " Star Wars The Phantom Menace" even though his bishop didn't think it was something a good priest should be doing. Along the way he was able to make references to the Catholic faith seen in the Star Wars universe, and unbeknownst to himself later when attending a Star Wars release received reports from multiple people that he …
If you are a Catholic, a Star Wars fan, a runner, someone concerned about mental health or a podcaster, I recommend this book.
Geekpriest is about the adventures of an unexpected priest from a rural town in the Netherlands. He tells the story of how he grew up a Catholic, and even most people in his Catholic school thought the church teachings where dumb, he wanted to become a comic book artist, but was drawn to the priesthood, against his parents' wishes.
He wrote a hand coded website about the rumors surrounding " Star Wars The Phantom Menace" even though his bishop didn't think it was something a good priest should be doing. Along the way he was able to make references to the Catholic faith seen in the Star Wars universe, and unbeknownst to himself later when attending a Star Wars release received reports from multiple people that he had led them (back) to the Church.
He shared his exercise podcasting, starting a podcasting network, blogs, all while struggling with the needs of his parish. I was most touched by this part. While in the 21st century most all of us now see our priests are fallen human than same as us, it's still a mystery that to too many looks like a super easy job they only work a few days a week. I was flabbergasted at his experience having to fight with the members of his parish council for the right to use the approved liturgical texts. I know Holland is known for some of the most disbelieving believers, home of the infamous "atheist priest" of the Dutch Reformed Church who "believers in a God that does not exist" but to see such inside the Catholic Church is still mind shattering to me. And he shares his struggles with mental health, and his recovery journey, related to him not meeting up to his own standards of what he should be as a "super priest."
After seeing the poverty in Uganda, he changed his lifestyle, stopped eating junk food, became a marathon runner and gave more to the global poor.
This book will give the non-technical reader a general idea of what electricity is, how …
Not what I was hoping for
3 stars
I received this book for free in return for an honest review through LibraryThings early review program. It was pretty OK. Nothing particularly insightful, I was hoping to be able to use it as a reference for my kids' 4-H project, but not really going to work for us.
This book is the result of a six-year dialogue between Sioux medicine men and Christian …
The Lakota carry not only their own problems but also the problems of their relatives into the sweatlodge. While the Christian Church is gradually moving toward an awareness of 'social sin,' the emphasis is still upon the sins of one's deepest heart. The Lakota sweatbath usually takes place with several and only occasionally with one; for Christian confessions, the reverse is usually true. But in communal penance ceremonies, the emphasis is moving away from forgiveness of my sins toward the forgiveness of our sins, for we in corporate groups make decisions and carry out actions which hurt others.
