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Ji FU

fu@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 1 year, 1 month ago

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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The Charismatic Century (2006, Warner Faith) 4 stars

It's been 100 years since William Seymour, an African-American Christian revivalist, guided his small Los …

A history of 20th Century Pentecostalism

4 stars

Not quite what I was expecting. I had hoped for more details on the original Azusa Street Revival, but what was there was about what I had already read on Wikipedia. That being said the rest of the book was still good. In fact I read it more quickly than I have much non-fiction the last several years. The rest was about what happened since then, from the racial split in classical pentacostolism, to the global south growth of Christianity thru the spirit filled belivers. The establishment of charismatics who chose to stay in their old churches and renew them rather than leaving to form new ones.

What I found most mighty and surprising was Pope John praying in the 20th century on 1-1-1901 & dedicating the new century to the holy spirit and man the latter rain came down.

The Complete MAUS 4 stars

A banned book worth reading

4 stars

Significantly better than I expected. Like many I first came to know of this book a number of years ago when it was "banned" for having nudity. Like so many "banned" books I feel its often a ploy by the publishing company to sell more books, particularly when they are books like this that have been in publicization for a long time.

I expected it to need the help because it wasn't that great. However I found it a pleasant read, granted you probably aren't supposed to get a pleasant read out of a holocaust book but I digress. I really appreciated the Vladek character when is so much a character of a miserly Jewish American that even the author notes he isn't sure he should include it because of how stereotypical it is.

A good look at the insight of a particularly family and there making, and no so …

Sonic the Hedgehog Encyclo-Speed-ia (Hardcover, 2021, Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse Books) 4 stars

Celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog's 30th anniversary with a full-color historical retrospective that explores nearly every …

Good coffee table book for your sega fan.

4 stars

Fun reference of all the Sonic games from the.90s-20s. Not something you'll read all the way through, but certainly fun to flip through. Even learned of a number of 90s arcade games I never heard of before.

Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi (Paperback, 2008, Bantam) 4 stars

For sixteen centuries the Order of Pythia has awaited the reappearance of the ancient oracle …

Suggestive Teen novel

4 stars

I first read this during summer vacation as a teenager. it was the first book I eve read that described lustful thoughts directed at a naked woman. This teenage hornball was enthralled.

I recently reread it, the story was good, and i found in the 5th chapter the particular passage I had read over and over in the 90s. All that was there was the few details I remembered and no reason to actually go to town.

Stargate SG-1 : Sunrise (Paperback, 2011, Fandemonium Books) 5 stars

A good quick read

5 stars

A very good read. light and fast. I did have to re watch SG-1 S04E10 "Beneth the Surface" to get some of the subtext of the immediate previous mission.

While still recovering from memories of someone else living in their head, SG-1 advances to a new planet in search of the "Shield of the gods" hoping that its a defense mechanism against the Go'ahuld.

They find another very clean happy advanced city protected from the sun that would otherwise burn them to death, think climate change 40000 years from now. They all have accepted the same religion, which is lived out through the daytime soap opera of Sunrise teaching the beatitudes of their sun god.

They find the daughter of the pastor knows of a whole beyond their ark. They meet people who are barley surviving and have mixed feelings about sun rise.

The sun god they worship and fear …

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Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants (Paperback, 2008, Bantam Dell) 5 stars

Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants is the second of 12 Indiana Jones …

I couldn't pit it down

5 stars

I don't remember the last time i fished a book in less than week, and i would have been two days if I had more time. I had to keep turning the page to see what happens next.A brilliant story even better than some of Lucasfilm. After getting his PhD in France Indy gets his first teaching job in London by the help of Marcus Brody. He teaches an intro class that most kids gloss over but the one egg head is also the deans daughter. Shes smaet young beautiful what every young American dreams a Scottish lass may be, but he's too scared.

Then crazy men start following him, eventually figuring their employees of this girl's ex..omg. Her term paper makes some pretty bold claims that Merlin was a historical figure, and she can prove it, as her mom just happened to br heading a dig this summer in …

Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants (Paperback, 2008, Bantam Dell) 5 stars

Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants is the second of 12 Indiana Jones …

I couldn't pit it down

5 stars

I don't remember the last time i fished a book in less than week, and i would have been two days if I had more time. I had to keep turning the page to see what happens next.A brilliant story even better than some of Lucasfilm. After getting his PhD in France Indy gets his first teaching job in London by the help of Marcus Brody. He teaches an intro class that most kids gloss over but the one egg head is also the deans daughter. Shes smaet young beautiful what every young American dreams a Scottish lass may be, but he's too scared.

Then crazy men start following him, eventually figuring their employees of this girl's ex..omg. Her term paper makes some pretty bold claims that Merlin was a historical figure, and she can prove it, as her mom just happened to br heading a dig this summer in …