Amazon always overestimate their delivery dates by at least a few weeks. This wasn’t supposed to be here till March 23, and all my other purchases have arrived early. It’s such a sneaky tactic. They’re toying with me. I should know by now this would happen, yet to see that box with that logo sitting on the bench a month early still results in delightful surprise. Now I just want to buy more to do it all over again. Bravo, Amazon, bravo. (perhaps a little too emotionally attached? nah)
Also - perfect timing in another sense. Turning twenty tomorrow, I can now read “Speaking to Teenagers” much more objectively.
For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others.
I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.
C. S. Lewis
You certainly have that right, Clive Staples. (Although I’ve never tried it with a pipe in my teeth)
Latest Amazon delivery!
Books are essential to Christian growth. And, if there is one disappointment I have as I reflect on over three decades of Christian ministry, it is the declining appetite among Christians for good Christian literature. As a consequence, today’s Christianity is less robust.
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -CS Lewis
(via jasminecrystal)
Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories. People who don’t understand books don’t understand this. They learn from TV shows about organizing that you should get rid of the books that you aren’t reading, but everyone who loves books believes the opposite. People who love books keep them around, like photos, to remind them of a great experience and so they can revisit and say, “Wow, this is a really great book.
(via rivkaishere)
As I lay down my pen for the last time (literally, since I confess I am not computerized) at the age of eighty-eight, I venture to send this valedictory message to my readers. I am grateful for your encouragement, for many of you have written to me. Looking ahead, none of us of course knows what the future of printing and publishing may be. But I myself am confident that the future of books is assured and that, though they will be complemented, they will never be altogether replaced. For there is something unique about books. Our favorite books become very precious to us and we even develop with them an almost living and affectionate relationship. Is it an altogether fanciful fact that we handle, stroke and even smell them as tokens of our esteem and affection? I am not referring only to an author’s feeling for what he has written, but to all readers and their library. I have made it a rule not to quote from any book unless I have first handled it. So let me urge you to keep reading, and encourage your relatives and friends to do the same. For this is a much neglected means of grace… . Once again, farewell!
My latest delivery of Amazon books have arrived! This time with two cheap textbooks thrown in for good measure. A month before they were due!
Again, the dilemma is which to read first!
new books for the pile. thanks amazon.
disclaimer #1: i’m a bit nerdy this way. don’t judge. or else.
disclaimer #2: i really just wanted to take photos of stuff. hence this primarily unexciting image.
disclaimer #3: i was getting annoyed at the number of posts on tumblr these days. and now i’m just being a hypocrite.
My current “to-read” pile.
what’s on yours?
