The Zahir by Paul Coelho
A novel about obsession.
A story about a man obsessed with finding the wife who left him without an explanation.
Friday
Conversations on Books...
Second Glance by Jodie Picoult
Raises questions about integrity, respect, prejudice, memory, medical ethics and things that go bump in the night.
My Sister's Keeper by Jodie Picoult
Story of a child that was born in order to be a bone marrow match for her sister. In her teenage years she refuses to continue to go through transfusions and surgeries that help combat her sisters leukemia.
Available at Alice Springs Public Library
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
Story that focuses around the issues of abortion and child raising.
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices that Create Miracles by Caroline Myss
Generosity is a biological and spiritual neccessity.
The Shady Tree by Bill Harney and Douglas Lockwood
Life in the Territory of old.
Prayer Tree by Leunig
Love is born
With a dark and troubled face
When hope is dead
And in the most unlikely place
Love is born:
Love is always born.
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic
A collection of essays that discuss aspects of life under Communism - including religion, political change and access to consumer goods - and looks at the reasons for its failure.
Rosa Parks Biography
The woman who refused to give up her seat.
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
The Game of Life
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Flying Hero Class by Thomas Keneally
Story of Palestinians hijacking a planeload of passengers who include an Aboriginal dance troupe on a world tour.
Raises questions about integrity, respect, prejudice, memory, medical ethics and things that go bump in the night.
My Sister's Keeper by Jodie Picoult
Story of a child that was born in order to be a bone marrow match for her sister. In her teenage years she refuses to continue to go through transfusions and surgeries that help combat her sisters leukemia.
Available at Alice Springs Public Library
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
Story that focuses around the issues of abortion and child raising.
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices that Create Miracles by Caroline Myss
Generosity is a biological and spiritual neccessity.
The Shady Tree by Bill Harney and Douglas Lockwood
Life in the Territory of old.
Prayer Tree by Leunig
Love is born
With a dark and troubled face
When hope is dead
And in the most unlikely place
Love is born:
Love is always born.
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic
A collection of essays that discuss aspects of life under Communism - including religion, political change and access to consumer goods - and looks at the reasons for its failure.
Rosa Parks Biography
The woman who refused to give up her seat.
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
The Game of Life
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Flying Hero Class by Thomas Keneally
Story of Palestinians hijacking a planeload of passengers who include an Aboriginal dance troupe on a world tour.
Book Crossing
Want to leave your used books for the general public to pick up on a park bench?
If so, go here:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
If so, go here:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
Sunday
Why Warriors Lie Down and Die
Richard Trudgen will be doing a seminar in Alice Springs on August 1-2.
Link here: http://www.ards.com.au/wstopics.htm
Why Warriors Lie Down and Die by Richard Trudgen and Djambati Mala
Addressing the causes or the symptoms? “Why Warriors” goes on to analyse the primary causes of “this crisis” and the symptoms that stem from them. Through this analysis it seems that most of the present programs are designed to deal with the symptoms not the underlying causes.
Link here: http://www.ards.com.au/wstopics.htm
Why Warriors Lie Down and Die by Richard Trudgen and Djambati Mala
Addressing the causes or the symptoms? “Why Warriors” goes on to analyse the primary causes of “this crisis” and the symptoms that stem from them. Through this analysis it seems that most of the present programs are designed to deal with the symptoms not the underlying causes.
Saturday
The Shady Tree
"What you want to go away from your country?" Djewarri demanded. "You gone silly along head or somethin'? That proper rubbish-country long way away. This country knows you, now you want to go along country that doesn't know you. You die there."
He was emphatic about that. "When man leaves the country that knows him, soon he die," he said.
I tried to explain to him the beauties of Mooloolaba. I told him about the surf, and the people swimming, and the fishing trawlers, and the pineapples and the bananas, but he was unimpressed.
"They got fat kangaroo there?" he asked.
"No Kangaroos," I admitted.
"Plenty lizards?"
"I didn;t see any lizards."
"Well that must be rubbish-country all right," he said.
Taken from: The Shady Tree by Bill Harney and Douglas Lockwood
He was emphatic about that. "When man leaves the country that knows him, soon he die," he said.
I tried to explain to him the beauties of Mooloolaba. I told him about the surf, and the people swimming, and the fishing trawlers, and the pineapples and the bananas, but he was unimpressed.
"They got fat kangaroo there?" he asked.
"No Kangaroos," I admitted.
"Plenty lizards?"
"I didn;t see any lizards."
"Well that must be rubbish-country all right," he said.
Taken from: The Shady Tree by Bill Harney and Douglas Lockwood
Friday
Wednesday
The Thirteenth Tribe
This was mentioned by a Book Grouper some weeks ago.
The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler.
Koestler wrote an intriguing, popularized account of the theory that many of today's Jews (mostly those of Eastern European descent) are of non-Semitic origin. Essentially the book recounts the tale of the Khazars, a middle Asian Turkic tribe, or tribal group, which settled in the southern steppes of what is today's Russia, during the seventh and eighth centuries, and adopted Judaism (in reaction to the conflicting demands of nearby 'great powers' espousing Christianity and Islam).
Adam Said:
This post reminds me of the story of the Bnei Menashe from North Eastern India who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Link here http://www.bnei-menashe.org/
The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler.
Koestler wrote an intriguing, popularized account of the theory that many of today's Jews (mostly those of Eastern European descent) are of non-Semitic origin. Essentially the book recounts the tale of the Khazars, a middle Asian Turkic tribe, or tribal group, which settled in the southern steppes of what is today's Russia, during the seventh and eighth centuries, and adopted Judaism (in reaction to the conflicting demands of nearby 'great powers' espousing Christianity and Islam).
Adam Said:
This post reminds me of the story of the Bnei Menashe from North Eastern India who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Link here http://www.bnei-menashe.org/
Tuesday
The purpose of life
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(my first post here. I just love this quote.)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(my first post here. I just love this quote.)
Friday
Conference of the Birds
Come, you lost atoms, to your Center draw
And be the eternal mirror you saw;
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide
Return and back your sun subside.
— Farid ud-Din Attar
Conference of the Birds
Poetry as Topic..
Yeh yeh. Okay.
Book Groupers, focus on the poetry square.
Reading around the topic of poetry.
Good, I will drag Leunig out again.
And Omar Khayyam and Gibran.
Book Groupers, focus on the poetry square.
Reading around the topic of poetry.
Good, I will drag Leunig out again.
And Omar Khayyam and Gibran.
Conversations On Books...
Click on bold type for more info:
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices that Create Miracles - Caroline Myss
The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex - Warren Farrell
Manhood - Steve Biddulph
7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Steven Covey
The Shady Tree - Bill Harney and Douglas Lockwood
The Chill Factor - Sandra Brown
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices that Create Miracles - Caroline Myss
The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex - Warren Farrell
Manhood - Steve Biddulph
7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Steven Covey
The Shady Tree - Bill Harney and Douglas Lockwood
The Chill Factor - Sandra Brown
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