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It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

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http://bookjourney.wordpress.com This week I finished Citizen by Rob Peabody. This book is Christian non-fiction. I'm still reading and enjoying Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good by Jan Karon. I am also reading The Girl Who Came Back To Life by Craig Staufenberg. This one is for a blog tour.  This one is called A FairyTale.

Citizen by Rob Peabody

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  This is a thought provoking nonfiction Christian book. From the very beginning the book took me down a new path because I had no idea what the author, Rob Peabody, meant by an "Alternative Kingdom. Citizen by Rob Peabody goes into great detail about the life of a true Christian. If you expect an exciting life as a Christian, your role will  go farther  beyond sitting in a pew on a chosen worship day. It goes beyond a moral compass of striving to keep the law in a lawless society. It's more than not stealing, not killing, not coveting your neighbor's belongings or not ever have cursed out your neighbor's dog for parking too loudly on the week night before you have to go to work. Also, it's more than saying "yes, I'm saved. My everlasting home is in Heaven with Jesus. Amen. Rob Peabody gives himself and his family as a concrete example. They left all their material possessions and went to London to do Missionary work. Examples of the people Rob

Wondrous Words

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http://bermudaonion.net "They can write and talk all they like about Chartres Cathedral's high-flying feats of Gothic - the rib vaults, the gravity, the fenestration - but what caught my delight that morning was the peace of the youthful day, the blue hues of semi-darkness, the sound of our footsteps on the original medieval floor." 1. Fenestration the arrangement, proportioning, and design of windows and doors in a building. http://merriam-webster.com 2. Gothic Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period . It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture . Originating in 12th-century France and lasting into the 16th century, Gothic architecture was known during the period as Opus Francigenum ("French work") with the term Gothic first appearing during the latter part of the Renaissance . Its characteristics include the pointed arch , the ribbed vault an

Teaser Tuesday

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http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com "She didn't see him, so he let her browse. Book browsing had its own set of rules, of course. It was a contemplative pursuit, and he was trying to learn when to reel in a paying customer and when to reel out...Two hours later, Irene McGraw was still sitting on the floor in the Children's section, books strewn about in a bright sea of color. For the first time since he'd known her, she appeared...what? Relaxed. Comfortable."

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

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I finished The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man by John Weldon Johnson. Also finished Jasmine Skies by Sita Brahmachari. Now, I want to get well into Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good by Jan Karon. Also, want to continue with What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey. It has one of those pretty silken marks. Mine is like golden bronze. I wish all books had those pretty attached bookmarks. http://bookjourney.wordpress.com

Jasmine Skies by Sita Brahmachari

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No matter how far away people live or travel from one another they remain connected to one another. Our past, our present and our future seem to fight against the idea that people should remain apart from one another to build a tiny more personal world with people like themselves. When Mira travels from America to India to visit her Indian relatives, she feels an immediate connection. She feels the keen desire to flow backward into the pasts of her loved ones who seem no longer close to one another. So she secretly takes a bundle of her mother's letters from a relative, Anjali., all the way to India with her. Although she stays with her super energetic cousin, Priya, she feels an immediate moment by moment connection to Janu. He seems her soul mate. Janu seems more like the old India while Priya is definitely a part of modern India with her short, pink spiked hair and her lack of desire to wear a sari. Priya kept me grounded through the novel. Perhaps, she kept Mira grounded

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

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This is a Negro man's narrative. It's about his desire to succeed in a society where the color of the skin is more important than honesty or any other character value of life. As he journeys through life from the North to the South in the United States, he faces a hard dilemma. Should he choose to help his Negro brother fight a struggle to prove himself human and intelligent, or should he fight only for himself by making money, owning power and societal connections? He can always say the choice was made for the good of his family. When he sees a man burnt alive, he changes his name and grows a mustache. Then, he goes back to New York. to make his living. The autobiography is brilliantly put together whether you choose to despise this man or choose to believe he was what he was, a flawed man who made decisions that seemed right at the time for him. In the end, it's a whole society being examined on the glass slide under the microscope and not the