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2012 Reading Priorities

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English: beginning of the Gospel of John

I am mostly a ‘Read by Whim‘ reader.  But that does not mean that I do not make plans about what I want to read.  While I may change my mind, these are my plans over the next six months or so.

I have really enjoyed my six months just reading Luke.   I have read about 8 books that have been directly or indirectly on the book of Luke.  When I finish up my current commentary I will be moving on to six months on John.  I am still looking for books, but I have already picked up (or had) RC Sproul’s commentary on John, The Historical Reliability of John’s Gospel by Craig Blomberg, Metzger’s commentary When Love Comes to Town: The Gospel of John and NT Wright’s two volume John for Everyone

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Complete 2011 Books of the Year List

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Here is the Complete Books of the Year 2011 List (with Honorable Mentions).  In reverse alphabetical order by name of author.

Surprised by Oxford: A Memoir
Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber

I read a number of good memoirs this year (Brennan Manning, Eugene Peterson, Ian Cron, etc.) but Surprised by Oxford was my favorite.  A beautifully written book about a student finding God while studying literature in Oxford.  If you like books about books and memoirs that are as much about ideas as timeline, than you will like this.  I also highly recommend Ian Cron’s Jesus, My Father, The CIA and Me.  I had a hard time deciding which I liked better.  Cron’s book was very good and I really recommend it as well.

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Merry Christmas!

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This is a scan of our actual Christmas card (I need a new scanner).  I really do hope you have a very nice Christmas. We have received more positive comments from this card than any we have ever done. It was my wife’s idea and I think people enjoy it so much because it is … Read more

How Many Kindles is Amazon Selling?

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Amazon is the king of not actually saying anything in a press release.  According to this Press Release these things are true: 1) Amazon has sold more than 1 million kindle per week for the last three weeks (all models combined). 2) Kindle Fire has been the best selling product on Amazon for 11 weeks straight … Read more

Most Read Book Reviews of Nov 2011

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Here are the most read book reviews of November 2011.  For the first time I am looked at both the RSS and the website views.  It seems that RSS readers and website visitors read very different reviews.  Also it is interesting that RSS readers read reviews much more than website visitors, website visitors are much … Read more

Semi-Vacation

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Today starts a semi-vacation at my Mother in Law’s cabin for the next 10 days. We are going to have Thanksgiving first with my side of the family and then with my wife’s side of the family. I will have internet, but the amount of time I have for posting and reading is unknown. I … Read more

Most Read Reviews in October

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A few days late, but these are the most read Book Reviews in October. Against Calvinism by Roger Olson The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo Luke’s Gospel From Scratch by Donald Griggs and Paul Walaskay Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Noll The Night of the Living Dead Christian by Matt Mikalatos

Short Break

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I have been kind of fried lately.  I have kept up a 4 or 5 book a week posting schedule much of the year and posted 141 book reviews so far this year personally.  I am out of reviews.  So I am going to take the week off from book reviews and only post free kindle … Read more

Advertising

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Over the past two years of Bookwi.se (and the previous MrShields.com) I have messed around with advertising but I have not actually made any money except from Amazon affiliate links. Today I am going to try again with Google Adsense.  I am not trying to make a lot of money with Bookwi.se, simply pay for … Read more

Updated About Page and the BlogX Challenge

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I am participating in Tentblogger BlogX Challenge (modeled after the P90X).  John has been incredibly helpful in giving suggestions and helping me make Bookwi.se a better blog.  (He and Chris Ames even came up with the name.) Todays challenge was to update the About Page.  Since I will hit 700 posts very soon (probably Thursday), … Read more