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Sep 08, 2008 - 04:11 PM |
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 Topic: Books ‘n Brew (NCLC Book Club)The new items published under this topic are as follows.
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The last Books “n” Brew meeting at Becky and Jay's home was a lively raucous meeting. People were having such a great time discussing the book and other things that that meeting ran an hour longer than our normal ending time of 9:00 pm. If you want to join in the fun, the next meeting will be at the home Glenda and Rick Voss on Friday, February 22 at 7:30 pm. We will be discussing Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.
Order Now: "Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen"
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Books ‘n Brew will be meeting September 21 at 7:30 pm at the home of Anne and Jim Carlson to discuss the book “Misquoting Jesus” by Bart Ehrman. Please join us.
Order Now: "Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why" By Bart D. Ehrman"
“The popular perception of the Bible as a divinely perfect book receives scant support from Ehrman, who sees in Holy Writ ample evidence of human fallibility and ecclesiastical politics. Though himself schooled in evangelical literalism, Ehrman has come to regard his earlier faith in the inerrant inspiration of the Bible as misguided, given that the original texts have disappeared and that the extant texts available do not agree with one another. Most of the textual discrepancies, Ehrman acknowledges, matter little, but some do profoundly affect religious doctrine. To assess how ignorant or theologically manipulative scribes may have changed the biblical text, modern scholars have developed procedures for comparing diverging texts. And in language accessible to nonspecialists, Ehrman explains these procedures and their results.” From Booklist.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
Order Now: "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" By Terry Jared Diamond "
In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life.
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The next "Books & Brew" meeting details are still pending. The current book is "Small Gods" By Terry Pratchett . All are welcome -- whether you've read all or part of the book, or not! If you don't join us at the meeting, consider reading the book anyway.
Order Now: "Small Gods" By Terry Pratchett"
Discworld is an extragavanza--among much else, it has billions of gods. "They swarm as thick as herring roe," writes Terry Pratchett in Small Gods, the 13th book in the series. Where there are gods galore, there are priests, high and low, and... there are novices. Brutha is a novice with little chance to become a priest--thinking does not come easily to him, although believing does. But it is to Brutha that the great god Om manifests, in the lowly form of a tortoise. --Blaise Selby
While this is the 13th book in the series, it is really a stand alone story that is only casually made reference to in some of the other books. The Discworld series started out as a parody of all the fantasy that was around in the big boom of the early '80s, then turned into a satire on just about everything. Small Gods is the story of the once great god Om who, despite having thousands of followers, finds that he has only one true believer. While full of humor and satire about “the church” and its history, I think that it reflects many of the opinions of a lot of current day “non-religious” folks.
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The next "Books & Brew" meeting has been set for 7:30 on Feb. 10th at the Vosses' house. The current book is "The Heart of Christianity" by Marcus J. Borg. All are welcome -- whether you've read all or part of the book, or not! If you don't join us at the meeting, consider reading the book anyway.
Order Now: The Heart of Christianity : Rediscovering a Life of Faith 
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My Sister’s Keeper , by Jodi Picoult will be discussed on Friday August 19, 7:30pm at the church.
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate – a life and role she has never challenged – until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister – and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister that she loves.
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