| Basic Christianity |
John R. W. Stott |
Print |
Purchased |
160 |
02-15-2008 |
06-01-2009 |
8 |
great basic primer everyone should read. |
| The Shack |
William P. Young |
Print |
Purchased |
255 |
07-26-2008 |
03-14-2009 |
6 |
still not sure |
| Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling |
David Wolman |
Print |
Library |
190 |
10-28-2008 |
02-21-2009 |
8 |
A really interesting and informative survey of English orthography. |
| Small Miracles of the Holocaust: Extraordinary Coincidences of Faith, Hope, and Survival |
Yitta Halberstam |
Print |
Library |
272 |
12-11-2008 |
02-28-2009 |
9 |
wonderful and inspiring stories of survival and faith. |
| Heaven |
Randy Alcorn |
Print |
Purchased |
533 |
12-16-2008 |
08-03-2009 |
7 |
Very well done, if a bit overdone. |
| The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again |
J.R.R. Tolkein |
Print |
Purchased |
370 |
12-19-2008 |
01-23-2009 |
7 |
I enjoyed it, but Tolkien just really fails to engage me very much. |
| Halley's Bible Handbook |
Henry H. Halley |
Print |
Purchased |
860 |
12-19-2008 |
12-31-2009 |
8 |
very good resource! |
| Is Believing in God Irrational? |
Amy Orr-Ewing |
Print |
Borrowed |
142 |
12-29-2008 |
01-02-2009 |
7 |
A good follow-up to The Impossible Faith |
| NLT Study Bible: New Living Translation |
God |
Print |
Received as Gift |
2275 |
12-30-2008 |
12-14-2009 |
10 |
Definitely a good resource to have, and I liked the translation. |
| NLT Study Bible: New Testament |
God |
Print |
Owned |
430 |
01-03-2009 |
07-05-2009 |
9 |
I've enjoyed the translation and the study notes. |
| The Inimitable Jeeves |
P. G. Wodehouse |
Print |
Library |
225 |
01-04-2009 |
01-11-2009 |
8 |
simply delightful! |
| Star Wars: The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi |
Ryder Windham |
Print |
Borrowed |
215 |
01-14-2009 |
01-26-2009 |
7 |
Just plain fun, borrowed from Ethan's friend. |
| Your Heart Belongs to Me |
Dean Koontz |
Print |
Library |
352 |
01-24-2009 |
01-31-2009 |
7 |
I may upgrade this to an 8 after I think about it for awhile. |
| The House at Pooh Corner |
A. A. Milne |
Print |
Owned |
180 |
01-27-2009 |
02-07-2009 |
8 |
wonderful stories with simply delightful language. |
| The Revelation of Jesus Christ: An Open Letter to the Church from a Modern Perspective of the Book of Revelation |
Lynn Hiles |
Print |
Library |
261 |
01-31-2009 |
02-13-2009 |
6 |
Some thought-provoking stuff. Unfortunately, it's mixed together quite thoroughly with a lot childish rubbish. |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Oscar Wilde |
Audio |
Library |
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02-02-2009 |
02-09-2009 |
8 |
great, classic work, and a great reading by Simon Vance. |
| Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits |
David Denby |
Print |
Library |
128 |
02-06-2009 |
02-19-2009 |
7 |
Interesting, but the underlying bias was distracting. |
| Grammar Snobs are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language For Fun & Spite |
June Casagrande |
Audio |
Library |
|
02-16-2009 |
02-19-2009 |
7 |
Still interesting in audio, and the bonus articles were good, too. |
| The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony Th |
Russell Shorto |
Audio |
Library |
|
02-19-2009 |
03-26-2009 |
8 |
Riveting and fascinating. |
| Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's 'Band of Brothers' |
Don Malarky |
Print |
Library |
288 |
02-23-2009 |
02-27-2009 |
8 |
Inspiring and gripping. A good companion to Band of Brothers. |
| The Hardy Boys: The Tower Treasure |
Franklin W. Dixon |
Print |
Library |
180 |
02-26-2009 |
03-19-2009 |
7 |
I was surprised how much Ethan was into it! |
| The Tales of Beedle the Bard |
J. K. Rowling |
Print |
Library |
125 |
02-27-2009 |
03-01-2009 |
7 |
Entertaining but not up to the HP books. |
| Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans are Looking Forward to the End of the World |
Nicholas Guyatt |
Print |
Library |
300 |
03-01-2009 |
03-03-2009 |
8 |
Astonishingly well-written and readable. And well-balanced. |
| Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ |
Richard Dooling |
Print |
Library |
251 |
03-03-2009 |
03-09-2009 |
8 |
Very entertaining and somewhat chilling. |
| Coaching Youth Baseball |
ASEP |
Print |
Library |
179 |
03-19-2009 |
03-30-2009 |
7 |
Finished just in time for First Practice! |
| Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity |
David Bodanis |
Print |
Library |
308 |
03-22-2009 |
05-10-2009 |
7 |
Not as good as e=mc^2, but still worth a read. |
| The Hardy Boys: The House on the Cliff |
Franklin W. Dixon |
Print |
Library |
180 |
03-24-2009 |
04-04-2009 |
8 |
Ethan's still really into them. |
| Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) |
Tom Vanderbilt |
Print |
Library |
383 |
03-25-2009 |
11-04-2009 |
7 |
some very good stuff, just not very easy reading. |
| Flashforward |
Robert J. Sawyer |
Print |
Library |
319 |
03-27-2009 |
04-12-2009 |
8 |
very enjoyable, although a bit weird at the end. |
| Ender in Exile |
Orson Scott Card |
Audio |
Library |
|
03-27-2009 |
04-09-2009 |
8 |
Oddly, I preferred it in print. Stefan Rudniki was great as always, but some of the other performances were just average. |
| The Associate |
John Grisham |
Print |
Library |
373 |
03-30-2009 |
04-04-2009 |
7 |
Easy read, but somewhat of an anticlimax. |
| Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Grievous attacks! |
Rob Valois |
Print |
Library |
160 |
04-05-2009 |
04-19-2009 |
7 |
Good clean fun, adapted from the Clone Wars tv show. |
| The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread |
Kate DiCamillo |
Print |
Library |
172 |
04-20-2009 |
05-03-2009 |
8 |
Lots of fun for a read-aloud with Ethan. |
| The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century |
George Friedman |
Print |
Library |
255 |
04-22-2009 |
05-09-2009 |
8 |
fascinating! |
| The Hardy Boys: The Secret of the Old Mill |
Franklin W. Dixon |
Print |
Library |
192 |
05-04-2009 |
05-18-2009 |
7 |
another fun one. |
| AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War |
Tom McNichol |
Print |
Library |
198 |
05-12-2009 |
05-22-2009 |
9 |
Utterly fascinating. |
| The Story of Doctor Doolittle |
Hugh Lofting |
Print |
Owned |
176 |
05-18-2009 |
05-27-2009 |
7 |
Interesting but not as engaging as Pooh. |
| Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English |
John McWhorter |
Print |
Purchased |
230 |
05-22-2009 |
07-15-2009 |
8 |
Good stuff, but not necessarily for everyone. |
| The Hardy Boys: The Missing Chums |
Franklin W. Dixon |
Print |
Library |
175 |
05-28-2009 |
06-10-2009 |
7 |
another solid mystery from Mr. Dixon. |
| Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World |
Tom Zoellner |
Audio |
Library |
|
05-30-2009 |
06-17-2009 |
7 |
Interesting stuff, not the greatest audio production. |
| Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Book Two: City of Night |
Dean Koontz |
Audio |
Library |
|
06-02-2009 |
06-19-2009 |
8 |
Excellent continuation. Curious how it'll come out. |
| Escape From the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew |
Alex Kershaw |
Print |
Library |
248 |
06-10-2009 |
06-15-2009 |
9 |
Couldn't put it down. Just a fantastic, riveting read. |
| Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! |
Jonathan Goldstein |
Print |
Library |
239 |
06-22-2009 |
07-12-2009 |
2 |
I doubt I'll ever read as bad a book. |
| The Hardy Boys: Hunting for Hidden Gold |
Franklin W. Dixon |
Print |
Library |
192 |
06-24-2009 |
07-09-2009 |
7 |
last one of these for a while, but Ethan's still loving them. |
| Relentless |
Dean Koontz |
Print |
Library |
356 |
06-25-2009 |
06-30-2009 |
8 |
another great page-turner from Koontz. |
| Catcher in the Wry |
Bob Uecker |
Print |
Library |
222 |
06-26-2009 |
07-06-2009 |
7 |
fun and inane, but it's about baseball, and that's all that really matters. |
| Logan's Run |
William F. Nolan |
Print |
Library |
148 |
07-06-2009 |
07-08-2009 |
7 |
definitely better than the movie, but still a bit strange. |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
L. Frank Baum |
Print |
Library |
320 |
07-10-2009 |
07-23-2009 |
8 |
Ethan really enjoyed it, even though it was a bit violent and the illustrations distracted from the text a bit. |
| Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus |
Orson Scott Card |
Print |
Purchased |
351 |
07-15-2009 |
07-23-2009 |
8 |
Great book! Half historical fiction, half alternate history, and half sci-fi. |
| Blindness |
Jose Saramago |
Print |
Library |
294 |
07-17-2009 |
08-02-2009 |
10 |
Incredible book. Just gripping and engrossing, and totally unique. |
| Charlotte's Web |
E. B. White |
Print |
Library |
184 |
08-01-2009 |
08-20-2009 |
8 |
Very fun read; Ethan enjoyed it very much. |
| Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language |
Richard Lederer |
Print |
Library |
117 |
08-02-2009 |
08-06-2009 |
7 |
Entertaining fluff. |
| Holes |
Louis Sachar |
Print |
Purchased |
233 |
08-03-2009 |
08-29-2009 |
8 |
Very fun and easy to read. |
| A Treasury of Children's Literature |
Armand Eisen |
Print |
Owned |
303 |
08-04-2009 |
09-11-2009 |
7 |
A fun collection to read to Ethan, though the excerpts from larger works were basically worthless. |
| Fight Club |
Chuck Palahniuk |
Print |
Library |
208 |
08-06-2009 |
08-08-2009 |
7 |
quirky and entertaining, if vulgar. |
| Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life |
Len Fisher |
Print |
Library |
256 |
08-10-2009 |
08-22-2009 |
7 |
interesting and informative |
| Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus |
Orson Scott Card |
Audio |
Library |
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08-10-2009 |
09-02-2009 |
8 |
A good audiobook, not perhaps up to the Ender series' quality. |
| Speaker for the Dead |
Orson Scott Card |
Audio |
Library |
|
08-25-2009 |
09-03-2009 |
10 |
still my favorite! |
| Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Book Three: Dead and Alive |
Dean Koontz |
Print |
Library |
352 |
08-31-2009 |
09-04-2009 |
8 |
Good wrapup to a fascinating series. |
| I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay |
Harlan Ellison |
Print |
Library |
278 |
09-01-2009 |
09-08-2009 |
8 |
A great adaptation that should've been filmed. Alas, we're stuck with that other version. |
| Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem |
Amir D. Aczel |
Print |
Library |
146 |
09-08-2009 |
09-24-2009 |
7 |
Very interesting history of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. |
| The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
Print |
Library |
374 |
09-10-2009 |
09-14-2009 |
9 |
Terrific book. Looking forward to the rest of the series. |
| The Boys' Book of Survival: How to Survive Anything, Anywhere |
Guy Campbell |
Print |
Library |
125 |
09-16-2009 |
09-16-2009 |
7 |
entertaining light reading. |
| Colossus |
D.F. Jones |
Print |
Library |
256 |
09-17-2009 |
09-21-2009 |
9 |
Loved it! |
| Slan |
A. E. Van Vogt |
Print |
Library |
255 |
09-24-2009 |
10-04-2009 |
7 |
solid, entertaining stuff. Good to read a science fiction classic. |
| The Indian in the Cupboard |
Lynne Reid Banks |
Print |
Library |
184 |
09-28-2009 |
10-08-2009 |
8 |
a classic from my childhood, and Ethan loved it! |
| Vanished |
Joseph Finder |
Print |
Library |
388 |
10-04-2009 |
10-13-2009 |
7 |
Good solid thriller. |
| The Bourne Identity |
Robert Ludlum |
Audio |
Library |
|
10-05-2009 |
11-15-2009 |
8 |
great rendition of a great thriller. |
| Naya Nuki: Shoshoni Girl Who Ran |
Kenneth Thomasma |
Print |
Library |
175 |
10-10-2009 |
10-18-2009 |
7 |
Very interesting story! |
| The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment |
A.J. Jacobs |
Print |
Library |
236 |
10-16-2009 |
10-20-2009 |
8 |
Fun stuff, but not up to The Year of Living Biblically. |
| Button, Button: Uncanny Stories |
Richard Matheson |
Print |
Library |
205 |
10-26-2009 |
10-28-2009 |
8 |
A couple of great stories, a couple of so-so ones. Overall, good stuff. |
| Brighty of the Grand Canyon |
Marguerite Henry |
Print |
Received as Gift |
224 |
10-29-2009 |
11-25-2009 |
7 |
Fun stuff. |
| The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide |
Sally C. Pipes |
Print |
Library |
182 |
10-29-2009 |
11-12-2009 |
8 |
Very good stuff. Unfortunately, I think it's all for naught. |
| A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life |
Donald Miller |
Print |
Library |
255 |
11-04-2009 |
11-06-2009 |
10 |
I'm actually going to plan on re-reading this one soon. |
| Letter to a Christian Nation |
Sam Harris |
Print |
Purchased |
104 |
11-12-2009 |
11-14-2009 |
5 |
Tired, old, standard atheist claptrap. |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey |
Arthur C. Clarke |
Print |
Purchased |
222 |
11-14-2009 |
11-27-2009 |
8 |
Certainly much better than the movie. |
| Pirate Latitudes |
Michael Crichton |
Print |
Library |
312 |
11-26-2009 |
12-02-2009 |
8 |
good, capery action, with piratey things thrown in and some serious buckling of swashes. Or swashing of buckles. |
| Because of Winn-Dixie |
Kate DiCamillo |
Print |
Purchased |
182 |
11-28-2009 |
12-06-2009 |
8 |
Another enjoyable read from Ms. DiCamillo. Ethan's a sucker for a book about a dog. |
| Breathless |
Dean Koontz |
Print |
Library |
337 |
12-03-2009 |
12-09-2009 |
7 |
Good clean Koontzy fun. |
| James and the Giant Peach |
Roald Dahl |
Print |
Purchased |
126 |
12-07-2009 |
12-19-2009 |
7 |
A fun blast from the past. |
| Catching Fire |
Suzanne Collins |
Print |
Library |
391 |
12-09-2009 |
12-14-2009 |
9 |
Excellent follow-up to The Hunger Games. I'm very much looking forward to the next book. |