Hello Everyone,
Just wanted to update you on the status of our book group. I am half-way through The Devil We Knew, and it will probably take another week (at least) for me to get done and all the words I didn't know looked up. :) So far I have really enjoyed it and learned a lot. Are either of you two reading it? Just want to know about when we will be moving on. No rush.
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Little Britches
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Little Britches
Profundities--Eve
Brian Sykes (geneticist who studies Mitochondrial Eve): "I have in my hand the end of the thread which connects me to my ancestral mother way at the back. I pull on the thread and one woman's face in every generation, feeling the tug, looks up at me. Their faces stand out from the crowd, and they are illuminated by a strange light. These are my ancestors. I recognize my grandmother in the front row, but in the generations behind her the faces are unfamiliar to me.
There are all my mothers who passed this precious messenger [mitochondrial DNA] from one to another through a thousand births, a thousand screams, a thousand embraces of a thousand newborn babies. The thread becomes an umbilical cord." pgs. 47-48
Satan wishes to blur our knowledge of the absolutes of good and evil. The power inherent in that knowledge makes us like God. It is our choice of good over evil which makes us godlike.
The ultimate reality for women rests on the truth that our lives are embedded in relationships. Our identities are tied up with other people. pg. 172
President Hinckley: "Your potential is limitless. You are daughters of God, endowed by inheritance with marvelous gifts and immeasurable potential. Accept the challenge. Go forward with confidence." pg. 161
There are all my mothers who passed this precious messenger [mitochondrial DNA] from one to another through a thousand births, a thousand screams, a thousand embraces of a thousand newborn babies. The thread becomes an umbilical cord." pgs. 47-48
Satan wishes to blur our knowledge of the absolutes of good and evil. The power inherent in that knowledge makes us like God. It is our choice of good over evil which makes us godlike.
The ultimate reality for women rests on the truth that our lives are embedded in relationships. Our identities are tied up with other people. pg. 172
President Hinckley: "Your potential is limitless. You are daughters of God, endowed by inheritance with marvelous gifts and immeasurable potential. Accept the challenge. Go forward with confidence." pg. 161
Future Readings
- **Little Britches / Ralph Moody
- **1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus / Charles Mann
- **The Whipping Boy / Sid Fleischman
- **Notwithstanding My Weakness / Neal A. Maxwell
- **Cranford / Elizabeth Gaskell
- **Carry On, Mr. Bowditch / Jean Lee Latham
- **Man's Search for Meaning / Viktor E. Frankl
- **The Scarlet Pimpernel / Emmuska Orczy
- **Surviving Jamestown / Gail Karwoski
- **The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe / Stephen Hawking
- **Anahita's Woven Riddle / Meghan Nuttall Sayres
- **Walk Two Moons / Sharon Creech
- The Gate of Heaven / Mark. B. Brown
- **Onion John / Joseph Krumgold
- **The House of Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- **Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded / Thomas Sowell
- How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present / Thomas J. Dilorenzo
- **The Post-American World / Fareed Zakaria
- **Midnight's Children / Salman Rushdie
- **Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe
- **I am the Clay / Chaim Potok
- **Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China / Jung Chang
- **Understanding the Process of Economic Change / Douglass C. North
Commentary
Past Readings
- **The Federalist Papers / Alexander Hamilton
- A Passion for the Impossible / Miriam Huffman Rockness
- A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century / Oliver Van DeMille
- Around the World in Eighty Days / Jules Verne
- Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America / Daniel J. Tichenor
- Eve and the Choice Made in Eden / BeverlyBeverly Campbell
- Fermat's Enigma:The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem / Simon Singh
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies / Jared Diamond
- Hamlet / William Shakespeare
- In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms / Laura C. Schlessinger
- Kim / Rudyard Kipling
- Life of Pi / Yann Martel
- Milkweed / Jerry Spinelli
- On the Wings of Heroes / Richard Peck
- The Bronze Bow / Elizabeth George Speare
- The Devil We Knew:Americans and the Cold War / H. W. Brands
- The Little Prince / Antoine de Saint Exupéry
- The Screwtape Letters / C.S. Lewis
- The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd
- Their Finest Hour / Winston Churchill
- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze / Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
5 comments:
I have finished it. I haven't started on any sort of essay/discussion. Coincidentally, I was reading a book on a similar topic concurrently so I'm afraid I may get confused between the two books. I have to go back and review and make sure I have my thoughts straight!
Great! We are excited to hear what you have to say. Kami and I have to remember to POST instead of call on the PHONE when we want to discuss the books! It will be fun to have your input.
uh - - yeah, no private discussions allowed!!
Okay - So we've been out of town and I totally forgot about that book. So, I'm guessing they returned it back through the interloan library because it's been on hold for me for longer than a week. So - count me out on this one. I have finished Milkweed already and started Little Prince but decided to shelve that while I read The King of Attolia instead. :-)
Okay, so that is where I stand.
JULIA
Good choice with the King of Attolia. LOVE IT! Just thought I'd add my two bits. Maybe I'll get in on some of these since I'm not taking any classes and just working this summer.
Lindsay, totally do--I'll send you an author invite so you don't have to limit yourself to comments. The next one is a Spinelli--I have it from the library already so we could easily share. Congrats on being done with the semester!
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