I am an autodidact always looking for new things to learn. I teach high school literature. My main bookish interests are theology, philosophy, poetry, and science fiction/fantasy
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"While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko …
One of the worst plot wise but with some great 5 star moments.
"Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. As they visit …
"New parents Marko and Alana travel to an alien world to visit their hero, while the family's pursuers finally close …
The smash-hit ongoing epic continues! Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal …
When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a …
In Thinking Being, Eric Perl articulates central ideas and arguments regarding the nature of reality in Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, …
Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian origin Jhumpa Lahiri published …
To a God Unknown is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1933. The book was Steinbeck's third novel …
W. W. Jacobs: The monkey's paw (2010, Creative Education)
A mummified monkey's paw carrying a spell grants three wishes to each of its owners and fulfills them in unexpected …
Overall helpful. Alice von Hildebrand's two essays were phenomenal and worth the price of the book. I will be seeking out her work elsewhere. Dietrich was much more analytical, dry, and in my view arbitrary, descending almost to the level of a Sunday School scolding. But there were moments where he shined as well, correcting abuses and tempering with love which is normally found in Catholic ethics.
Join Coco as she continues her spellbinding journey of magic and discovery! After traveling to the mystical township of Kalhn …
3.5, I did like the book and I learned a lot from it but you can tell its the author's first novel. The first half of the novel is a classic coming-of-age tale with a practical realism meeting the magical memory of the Kenyan hilllands. It plays out important issues for Africans under colonialism, dealing very directly with the complex issue of female circumcision. But the second half of the book is too burdened by repetitive exposition, and morality play style allusions for it to really shine, although certainly, the potential is there. The book is worth reading and I look forward to reading other of Thiong'o's works.
A lot of latent wisdom here in a Pastor's struggle to remain real and authentic in his approach to God in an American culture that valued the individual and the superfluous above all. Very touching and overall helpful in visualizing the vocation of pastor.
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked …
Read this book with my ninth-grade literature class. My students were initially intrigued, often times baffled by the character of Chris McCandless and his story. Jon Krakauer goes into painstaking detail, and the book catalogs the effort to find that painstaking detail. But this is largely where to book goes wrong. It doesn't feel cohesive and it often lost us as readers. McCandless' story can be inspiring but bogged down by pages of minuscule detail, loose conjecture, and stories of different adventurers that don't relate to McCandless' own, the power of witnessing McCandless' short but passionate life is all but snuffed out. You can tell that the book is not Krakauer's preferred form. As one of my students said, "this is why no one reads magazines anymore."
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