I like your Avatar! :) I saw it today in 3D. It's an awesome movie.
Thank you!
It's kinda funny, recently I read in one of your posts that you explained your avatar's nickname on twilight (also my favorite time of the day). However, all this time I thought you were using a play on words - naive!!!
Hello! No, I did not take that photo. I live in Melbourne. Surprisingly we lack a Sydney Harbour Bridge. I'm thinking they should install one soon. It's a great tourist attraction and it can only help us Melburnians. Did you hear they closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge for a day to have a giant picnic? They closed it off at night, installed some fake turf, and the next day families and others enjoyed a nice picnic on the bridge. So cool even though it must have caused havoc with the traffic. It'll probably become an annual event like the dust storms.
Thank you for your friendship ^_^
Due to my sojourn in academics I'm only up to 24 years myself. But my general perspective on life probably comes from previous training in philosophy of science, i.e., Karl Popper.
Hi NighEve,Last night I began a book that I'm only 72 pages into (out of 373). As I read on, I kept thinking, "I must tell Linda about this book. I know she'd like it." It's a memoir (copyright 2004) by Monique Madd. The title is Learning To Love Africa~My Journey from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back. I'm sure your TBR list is ever growing, but this is a must read.Karen
Tough times to be looking for work! I wish him all the luck (and you, lots of patience and little worry). I've been on FB for awhile, but have only recently connected there w/ some Shelfarians--I thought I searched for you a while back, but never found you. The browser we use at work doesn't display FB correctly, so I can't scroll down at all and I can't see comments : (We're trying to get the Dorothy Parker discussion started up again next week. I've been reading a lot of disappointing books lately. Did you ever read that Barth book? That's the first book I ever recycled (literally, I put it out with the recycling).What good books have been distracting you?
Thanks for the b-day wishes--I just finished my 3rd meeting of the day--yahoo. But I do have a bike ride to look forward to after work, cake & dinner by the fam, and then Krista is taking me out for dinner & dancing Saturday! How's life treating you?
Thanks for the kind birthday wishes, NighEve/Linda. I clearly see your point about the sterotyping. One of the many things I like about being your virtual friend is that you let me see things from a perspective I do not nor ever will have.Maybe someday we'll meet. That would be exciting. (BTW, I am going to meet a Shelfari friend next month. I met a young Belgian university student on Shelfari. We have been e-mailing for a couple of years now. She is coming to NY for a week. My husband and I are taking the bus to NY for two days while she is there so we can meet her. :-)
Afterthought: You said you were highly offended that the author portrayed God as a black woman. This surprised me. Don't you wonder why the author, a white man, chose this personification for God the Father? Perhaps, (of course, I can't speak for him, I realize I am making an assumption and that that is always, for me, dangerous waters) he did so out of respect for all races and both sexes.
Hi NighEve,I think the reason The Shack is so popular is because it is reaching a group of Christian people who have never or seldom questioned their religious beliefs. The ones, who are ready for change, like it because it is a mild introduction into seeing God as a loving being not as a dogmatic ruler. The Christians who read (or begin to read and then stop) and reject it are the ones who can’t live without the dogma; they need the structure. They refuse to think for themselves (and probably don't even realize this).We are all at different points on the spectrum of belief and of seeking. This books appeals to those who are at the beginning of doubting the dogmatic Christian beliefs. They are coming to realize that Christ was not a Christian.I think the book is popular because it is reaching a huge population of Christian church goers who are beginning to question; they are taking their first steps in thinking for themselves.
Nana Nana Poo Poo! Ha! So, I see that you have Race, Crime and the Law by Randall Kennedy on your to-read list. i wrote a scathing book review for this book while in college. I remember Kennedy as being very conservative. Anyhoo, girl I ended up having nightmares about Randall Kennedy. I don't remember them, but he was in em, so I automatically called them nightmares. How did you enjoy Women Who Run Wit Wolves? Someone loaned it to me, but I have not yet read it. Ok, I've visited DW and Women Read. I've got insomnia like a mug!
Hi NighEve, I just read your comments in the Alex. Forum about having read The Shack and refusing to discuss it with your rdg. groups due to their dogmatic religious beliefs. I read the book recently and thought it was a good read. The author is definitely a Christian in that he believes in Trinity, but he does reject dogmatism and espouses love is the lesson and nature is to be appreciated. I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall to hear how the book club readers reacted to his statement that laws (e.g. The Ten Commandments) are unnecessary. I am also curious as to what you thought of the book.
Anyway, the conversation between you and aimeesue got a bit out of hand, and I am sorry she got upset. She is always good to have around.
High there! is there something wrong with our page? I can't seem to post.
hey, just saw the zora langston comments between you and sweet. if i may, i think langston was a bit of a sexist pig and didint like that zora was prepared to be his equal. she is the dream! oh lord, what a writer. i generally hate dialect, even by black writers, but i can always forgive her, because she writes with so much power, she blows me right past all her little contractions. i mean, i know the harlem rennisance was a big deal, and maybe without it she wouldnt have gotten out of the logging camps of florida, but she is the shakespeare, the twain, the faulkner, when her sweet lover dies, part of me dies with her and for her. what essays are y'all trading? i would love a peek...ok, i'll butt back out now.....
Hey Nigh! Girl, I couldn't take any more of Bonfire. I couldn't get past the chapter describing Sherman McCoy's life as a bond trader! Ughhhh. My eyes glazed over. At least that chapter reminded me of you! lol. I've been on a J. California Cooper reading frenzy lately. Thank you for the French movie suggestions and the travel site!:)
Yes, my dear I found you there- I am playingwhile in class. I loved your family photos. check out mystrolling heiffers in Vermont..that's where Iam from...he he
