CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Well, now that I am taking a break (sort of), I have just started reading a compilation of essays by C.S. Lewis called, "God in the Dock."

today I started to read C. S. Lewis book, Mere Christianity

I'm reading "Mariel of Redwall" by Brian Jacques.

Dante's Inferno

I'll be taking the train to Montreal in a few days, so I picked up some books to pass the time:

"The New Life" by Orhan Pamuk
and "NP" by Banana Yoshimoto

"Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation" by K. Eric Drexler

I'm about halfway through the "Nibelungenlied."

So far, it is a very interesting book that shows the dark side of chivalry.

HALO: The Flood

pretty self explanatery

The Merchant of Vengeance by Simon Hawke, one of four similiarly titled historical fiction/mysteries (the others are the Slaying of the Shrew, A Mystery of Errors, and Much Ado About Murder) following young William Shakespeare and his friend Tuck Smythe as they find themseves "up to their jerkins in murder". Really great series for anyone who likes historical fiction, or who knows anything about Shakesperean plays. See also the Julian Kestrel Mystery series.

'Tis a good read, friends!

"Dragon's Dawn" by Anne McAffrey.

"The Halfing's Gem" by R.A. Salvatore

"The Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties," by Gleason Archer.

"A Call to Spiritual Reformation" by D.A. Carson, which is an analysis of Paul's prayers throughout his letters to the churches

"The Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis, which explains how education develops man's sense of morality

The Decameron by Giovanni Bocaccio
The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel (I've actually read this before, but I'm reading it again because many of the objections adressed in this book are the same ones I had when I was suffering from skepticism).
Jesus Among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias

I just finished reading most of Dante's Inferno, and the final portions of the same author's Purgatory and Paradise.

I was on a trip, so...

Basic Writings of Nietzsche (by the same, translated by Walter Kaufmann)
Five Dialogues (Plato, translated by GMA Grube)
Quite a bit of manga

...from even a cursory reading, I already dislike Nietzsche quite strongly.

>...from even a cursory reading, I already dislike Nietzsche quite strongly.
Why?

Are you biased? Then again, it is necessary, once you have a firm Foundation, that you keep it. If you dislike him for his atheism, I do not blame you. Or is there another reason?

My reasons would be his writing style (as much as can be properly translated, that is) and his methods of logic. I will admit I am biased, as I did not enjoy what I saw of his work before I seriously read it (primarily quoted by obnoxious atheists). However, I do not feel it was a severe enough bias to have prevented me from enjoying a potentially interesting author. But to each his own.

Deliver Us From Evil by Cindy Jacobs. It's a book for Christians to learn about the occult influences invading our society and home, and them putting a stop to it.

I just started "Small Wars: There Principles and Practice" by C.E. Callwell. It is an interesting book on military strategy from the early 20th century that is becoming much more relevant now than it was in its own day.

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

... Well, I saw the movie, so I figure I'll read the book.

Mr. Nash is an interesting man, indeed.

Just finished "The Piano Shop on the Left Bank," by Thad Carhart, and it has gotten me back into loving piano enough to practice on my weak points after a long absence from the instrument in any kind of serious aspect.

I am currently reading "A Distant Grief," by F. Kefa Sempangi, about Christian martyrdom in Uganda, and also O. Palmer Robertson's "Christ and the Covenants." A good change of pace from all the fiction and manga I've been reading.

Side note: after about a month or two of sitting on the line, with this post I hit the 500 mark.

Everworld, K.A. Applegate. I adored Animorphs, so I went for this.

Now that I am done listening to OotP, I'm gonna pick up where I left off in "Fellowship of the Ring" which would be the Council of Elrond. I think I will be able to sit through his grandiose language this time...

"To the white Sea" by James Dicky, a rather disturbing story of a US airman, indifferent to life and death, making his way through WW2 Tokyo after being shot down. So far one of the best written books I've read in my whole life...but the character's world view is deplorable.

Finished Haruki Murakami's After the Quake.

Currently - The Sandman: Book of Dreams.

Not the actual graphic novel. It's a published collection of Sandman fanfics written by "mainstream" authors, edited by Gaiman. XD Lucky people.

From the back: There is a dark king who rules our dreams from a place of shadows and fantastic things. He is Morpheus, the lord of dreams. Older than humankind itself, he inhabits - along with Destniy, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium, his Endless sisters and brothers - the realm of human consciousness. His powers are myth and nightmare - inspiration, pleasures, and punishments manifested beneath the blanketing mist of sleep. Surrender to him now.

All of The Sandman series is pretty interesting. Some of them I really liked, in that they're full of allusions to dozens of literary works and require actual intelligence to read. Others, however, bored me rather quickly due to the nature of that within. They are definitely strange cases.

I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for the fourth time! Gosh...I love those books! Now I'm reading If I Pay Thee Not in Gold by Piers Anthony and Mercedes Lackey...my friend, who's a big Anthony fan, suggested it to me and let me borrow his copy...

I'm re-reading through parts of the 5th Harry Potter book.. <3<3 Harry Potter ^_^

In my spare time I read through the current volumes of Scion and Sojourn. Good books but quick reads.

Socrates Meets Jesus by Peter Kreeft