Takeaway: Everything we do changes our brains. The repetitive action of computer and internet work is very effective at changing our brains. This has implications for everything.
The Shallows is not a new book. It has been out for about two years and many people, much smarter than I have had their take at it. My short review, Carr has lots of good points, which tend to be lost amidst his hyperbole and cherry picked stats.
At the center of this argument is that people are reading books less. And he has some statistics from the Bureau of Labor to show this. But as I talked about on this blog the National Endowment for the Arts study shows the largest increase in reading in decades (in all types of reading except poetry). Right off the bat, this severely undercuts his argument. The Library of Congress study came out after the book, so I don’t blame him for not using it. But even if it had come out I think he would have disputed it. Because in that study a novel is counted as reading a novel no matter what format you read it in. But Carr does not believe that.
“An ebook is no more related to a book than an online newspaper is related to a print newspaper.” (By which, he means that they are not hardly related at all in the context of the quote.)






Takeaway: The Reformation is very important to the history of Christianity and Europe, but the mythology of the Reformation is often overplayed and detrimental to understanding modern history.
Takeaway: The Gospel needs to be understood and Explicit.
Takeaway: In spite of the fact that some Christians misuse scripture about giving, those portions of scripture are still there and we need to focus on the right meaning, not avoid them.
Summary: Very practical and biblical look at the way we are to handle the everyday small and large conflicts in our lives.
Summary: A classic young adult quest novel based in 2044, but built on 1980s culture. A fun book for both adults that lived the 1980s and teens that were years from being born.









Summary: A wide ranging book on communication in marriage.