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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What the award-winning Boundaries has done for adult relationships, Boundaries with Kids will do for …
If parents give without boundaries, children learm to feel entitled and become self-centered and demanding.
— Boundaries with Kids by Henry Cloud (Page 21)
I don't know about this. I certainly fall into these character defects, but my parents where NOT ones to give freely without boundaries.
What the award-winning Boundaries has done for adult relationships, Boundaries with Kids will do for you and your children. Here …
@Tellington as a veteran myself, I concur this is very true.
Revolution is brewing on twenty-first-century Luna, a moon-based penal colony where oppressed "Loonies" are being …
On Hold at the public library
As a follow up to his autobiography, Paddle Your Own Canoe, the star of Parks and Recreation now focuses on …
The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel by American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in …
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.
The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel by American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in 2003. It is a love …
The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel by American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in 2003. It is a love …
This book is perhaps one of the most misunderstood works of Catholic theology of our …
I don't know why I keep reading these heavy theology books. Well I do know why, I'm hoping to learn more about my own faith so that I can better communicate to those who need more "there" there than I do in order to believe. Yet I went away from this not really learning anymore than I did from reading discririptions of this work and the author's Wikipedia page.
Basically, we know hell is a real place. Jesus made this quite clear. The Church can verify if someone is in heaven (the Saints who have been beatified) but we have no way of verifying for certain that someone is in hell. The Bible teaches that God desires that all men be saved, so who are we to claim that God does not save all men?
Personally I am not a universalist (someone who believes everyone will go to heaven) but …
I don't know why I keep reading these heavy theology books. Well I do know why, I'm hoping to learn more about my own faith so that I can better communicate to those who need more "there" there than I do in order to believe. Yet I went away from this not really learning anymore than I did from reading discririptions of this work and the author's Wikipedia page.
Basically, we know hell is a real place. Jesus made this quite clear. The Church can verify if someone is in heaven (the Saints who have been beatified) but we have no way of verifying for certain that someone is in hell. The Bible teaches that God desires that all men be saved, so who are we to claim that God does not save all men?
Personally I am not a universalist (someone who believes everyone will go to heaven) but I hope and pray that God is.
This book is perhaps one of the most misunderstood works of Catholic theology of our time. Critics contend that von …
@john@books.paladyn.org Yeah, for years I've felt the idea the best way to split up people to be represented by is by geographical region is kind of laughable.
Especially if you are going to have two houses are having them both by region is silly there are so many other ways, by industry, or Party, or age, or religion, etc.
@john@books.paladyn.org what's wrong with living where you grew up? If I could have found a job I would have stayed. And after we had kids we sure wish we had grandparents near by.
I've tried to pick it up several times since then. I want to know how it ends, but the blood and gore is too much for my stomach. Maybe I'll just watch the movie.
The definitive and official biography of one of the 20th century's most important and beloved …
Resuming from several years ago
