I was searching through the blog looking for something and ran across this old post from Feb 2005 - Book Meme. It was interesting and fun reading the responses last time, so thought I’d post it again. Let’s see what you all have this time around!

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page [...]

How exciting is this! A friend of mine from waaay back in the day wrote a book and got published!
Emy Hancock and I grew up, for a few years at least, in the same church. Her dad was the pastor of my childhood church, Latonia Baptist, but her family moved to central KY [...]

Well, I’m on the Harry Potter band wagon now. It took me a while to get around to it (and you may remember me writing a post about it a couple years ago), but now I’m in the Potter-verse. Over the past week, I’ve read the first book, made it half way through [...]

Coming recommended from my friend James, I decided to read Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. It was an okay book, a little slow at times, but still a good read.
One of the major themes of the book involves The Way of the Pilgrim and The Jesus Prayer -
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of [...]

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell was an okay book, not as great as I was anticipating it do be. It started slow, but picked up about a hundred pages in. There were some interesting points made throughout the book, interesting insights into the way certain things caught fire and snowballed from a [...]

Here’s a new tidbit that may interest some of you:
Unfinished Tolkien work to be published in 2007
An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers announced Monday.
Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on “The [...]

Quote from: In the Meantime: The Practice of Proactive Waiting by Rob Brendle.
Over the past several years, I have come to believe that the sincerely meant and dramatically expressed petitions of my early adulthood were entirely off the mark. In fact, it’s clear to me now that my pleas for God to use me [...]

Here’s an article from Guardian Unlimited concerning “Which book should every adult read before they die?”

It was published over 40 years ago and its American author has lived as a virtual recluse ever since, but according to Britain’s librarians, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird is the book that everyone should read.
The Pulitzer prize-winning [...]

Snippet from God’s Blog that should really make you think…
It might be fun to just everyone on pause for a bit like in that old Twilight Zone episode with the stopwatch. Only I’d be holding the stopwatch, so it wouldn’t break with everyone frozen in time. I’d put everyone on pause, download some [...]

I haven’t looked at this site in much detail yet, but from what I have read, it sounds interesting, so I’ll pass it along.
BookCrossing.com
What is BookCrossing?
bookcrossing
n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do [...]