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The Money Culture by Michael Lewis
The Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, the Bible, and Jacob 5 by Stephen D. Ricks
Discourses Of President Gordon B. Hinckley, Volume 1: 1995 - 1999 by Gordon B. Hinckley
The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008 by Bob Woodward
Robert F. Kennedy: The Myth and the Man by Victor Lasky
BYU Studies Vol. 37 No. 3, 1997-1998 by John W. Welch (ed.)
Two Years Before the Mast, Dana (Harvard Classics Deluxe Edition, 23) by Charles W. (editor) Eliot
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Favorite authorsHarold Bloom, Don DeLillo, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Lewis, John McPhee, Vladimir Nabokov, Elaine Pagels, D. Michael Quinn, David Remnick, B.H. Roberts, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, J.D. Salinger, David Sedaris, David Foster Wallace (Shared favorites)
About meBeautiful wife, wonderful kids, flexible job, terrible health, too much TV, too little time.
About my libraryOk, so I'll start with a couple random quotes about books and reading in general that approximate my reason for buying, keeping, and/or reading good books:
"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." ~P.J. O'Rourke
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." ~Oscar Wilde
"I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget." ~William Lyon Phelps
"An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy." ~Augustine Birrell
About my library in particular:
I have three large shelves in my office/library/study packed with a majority of my books. The far right is my "Celestial" shelf with my religous books mainly. The middle is my "Terrestrial" shelf with my History, Journalism, Philosophy, Science, and some fiction. The far left is my "Telestial" shelf with all my favorite fiction.
I've also got two medium shelves at work that house some books on finance and my Library of America collection.
I go back and forth between wanting to buy hardcover and paperback books.
I love the beauty of, and resolve it takes, reading a hardcover. However, the pragmatist and cheapskate in me gravitates to a book I can fold into my pocket and read until it falls apart without the feeling I tortured and killed kinfolk.
I generally avoid reading too much dime store trash, but occasionally a popular book or author comes out and I feel the need to just relax and play. It is the same impulse as comics on Sunday.
My simple tag tree:
1st: Hardcover/Paperback/Mass-market Paperback
2nd: Fiction/Non-fiction/Religion.
3rd A: >> if Fiction then century? then Type of Lit (aka African-American Lit, etc.)
3rd B: >> if Non-fiction then type (History, Biography, etc.) then other modifier.
3rd C: >> if Religion then area (LDS, Gnosticism, etc.) then other modifier.
4th: Condition (Lost, Loaned, etc) or other.
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Currently readingThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer
The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass
Oranges by John McPhee
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I saw you had read "Bonds that Make Us Free" and was wondering if you would be willing to help us with a project we are doing.
Stories are a powerful part of Arbinger. Often, in reading the story of another, we are able to identify ourselves. Although the details vary, the emotions and the symptoms are sometimes painfully, sometimes joyfully, similar. And, it is often through the honest evaluation of our own stories that we are able to grow and develop in unexpected ways.
Arbinger, now a world-wide organization, seeks to harness this catalyst for change that we find in the sharing of stories. We are in the process of creating an online and interactive story bank. Here, you will be able to read the stories written by others who share your desire to improve their lives and their relationships. If you would be willing to share your story, we welcome your contribution. With your permission, your story may be used in other projects we are doing as well. Please email it to me at kwilstead@arbinger.com. Thank you!
If you would like me to send you some examples of stories that have already been submitted, send me a request at kwilstead@arbinger.com.
Thank you, again!
-Katie
posted by MamaKates at 6:03 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2009
posted by ForrestFamily at 6:25 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2007