dear bloggers,
wow! i count up five full weeks of school left – so can’t be more than four more blogs, maybe less…

“eat this book” by eugene peterson – about how to read the Bible – like about the fourth-ish book i’ve read in the series that he did about the words of Christ – as was the case with the other three books, i enjoyed the book thoroughly – in this volume, what i found most interesting was about translation – how translations come to us and what we do with them – he talked about how the Bible was written, for the most part, in very common language – there wasn’t a newly-invented vocabularly that the writers used, and most of the words describe very common, ordinary things

“the grim grotto” – book 11 in unfortunate events – the baudelaires go underwater in this episode – ironically enough, i read the book saturday while most of alabama was under water… 🙂 i enjoyed most the captain and his motto that “he who hesitates is lost” – rather absurd – a good running motto though…

additionally, there was a good article about exercise in the ny times magazine (run now, benefit later), a rather disturbing article about cell phones and their harmful radiation, and i’m now into late 1 corinthians in my quest to finish the new testament

your readings???

maf

hey, happy wednesday:)

read two books that i can immediate recall last week – one, mental math strategies, was a book on tricks one can learn to do math tricks – really, they’re not tricks, but you appear to be a genius – i’d say 90 percent of the book was a bit too technical for every day use, but there was 10 percent that was cool – like how to remember every mulitple of 11 (add the two numbers that are being multipled by 11 and then stick that number in the middle – so 23 x 11 is 253)

second book i read was on stopping readicide – death of reading – the author, an english teacher i’ve read books from before – thinks that testing is killing reading – and i would agree – he also thought that overteaching and underteaching a book can kill the joy of reading – again, i would agree – and that books at home should be read for fun – lots of good points in the book that i’m going to try and work into the classroom

i’m rereading the new testament so when i was out awaiting the start of the 114th boston marathon, i read almost the entire book of acts and most of romans – i had to check that book before i ran – i figured no one would steal my new testament in my bag – and they didn’t:)

read adverbs by daniel handler – clever writing at parts – definitely not a middle school book:)

guess those are the highlights – remember, you only have to write two journals this week since i was lazy in getting this one up

sincerely,
mafeld

dearest of the dearly gifted,
i hope this blog finds you enjoying your monday night – and that you have a happy week of reading – i was pretty productive last week…

book two of the five-part series on Christ by eugene peterson – i forget the specific name – it was on the language of Christ – relied a bunch on luke 11-19 – a period where Jesus spoke in parables – was worthwhile read on many levels – by far the best book i read over the week – i’ve now read three of the five books – all really good

series of unfortunate events, books like nine and ten last week – got the baudelaires up to – or rather down the stream – to the ocean where they search for the sugar bowl – if i remember book 11 right – book eight or nine has my favorite line – which i completely didn’t get or remember from years before – “there are many things that are unpleasant in life – finding yourself in a grocery store with distance runners is one of them” – love, love, love that introduction to the chapter – although my above was a paraphrase

read also “dreams of my father” by president obama – written when he was like 33 and in the mid-1990s – sort of autobiography/analysis of race relations in the world – rather long, like 440 pages – i got it along with the snicket book thursday at the public library – perhaps the oddest combo check out ever:)

finished runners world – started running times-  finished christianity today, history channel magazine – the economist – oh, and sports illustrated – suppose what i remember most was the running stuff – the articles about the mix of faith and training were inspiring

on tap for this week is a book by the snicket author – daniel handler – called “adverbs” – i probably will reread some of my boston things as well – hope your reading goes well – and best wishes to BOB people

maf

hey,
welcome back ye bloggers – oh, how i have missed the insightful comments you leave…

as for me, i finished a few things last week…

a series of unfortunate events, book six – one of my favorite ones in the early part of the series – love esme squalor – just love saying that name – esme squalor – anyway, the triplet twins are further involved in the baudelaire’s woes in the book – enjoyed the elevator humor

willie mays biography – really enjoyed it – i like a good baseball book this time of year – and mays was an incredible athlete that i didn’t know much about – ironically enough, he grew up in fairfield, alabama – and yet the state pretty well shunned him until the 1970s because of his race – sad – mays was certainly gifted – and yet a very hard worker to stay in the big leagues for close to 23 years

read sports illustrated’s baseball preview – they like the phillies over the rays in the world series – they don’t like my cubs, white sox and only showed a mild interest in the braves – sad…

i think i’ve mentioned it, but i finished the bible a month ago – and then started re-reading the new testament – so i’m back to luke 19-ish – read about the lost things in luke 15 today – sheep, coin, son

do hope your reading is enjoyable this week

sincerely,
maf