Archive for January, 2010
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Friends tend to hook you up with friends that they don’t know very well. Your friends’ closest friends (besides you) are all married or live too far away or are reading “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” and are otherwise “undateable”. So – in order to play matchmaker – your friends have to scrape the bottom of the “friend pot” to find a romantic candidate. If your friends don’t want to hang out with these people on a regular basis, what makes them think that YOU would want to be with them on a regular basis?
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Friends have such high expectations when they match you up with a date. It’s nice that they have great intentions and are thinking about your future, but don’t they know that all matches made by friends typically end tragically? Isn’t that common knowledge? I’m sure there’s a Wikipedia entry on it.
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Last year I re-discovered my love of reading, and I think I read more books in 2009 than I had read in the few years preceding it. My Christmas list included several books that I want to read in 2010, and I was fortunate enough to be hooked up with some paperbacks that I’m pretty psyched to start reading. Here are the books I’ve got sitting in the living room waiting to be read:
- Winesburg, OH by Sherwood Anderson: My high-school English teacher’s husband wrote a book called Knockemstiff which was published a couple years ago. It’s a great book made up of short stories about a small community not far from where I live in Southern Ohio. The book has been compared to Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, OH, which also contains several inter-related short stories about a tiny town in Ohio. I’m pretty psyched to start this one.
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac: I worked with a guy last year in a retail store who wouldn’t shut up about this book. The dude in question was rather annoying and I didn’t look forward to seeing him on the days we worked together, but during our conversations he always made this book sound so interesting. Not sure if I’ll like it, but I’m looking forward to reading it just the same.
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding: I’ve started this book three times and I keep getting sidetracked by something else. I need to pick a rainy day, brew some coffee, and sit down on the couch and try to get a chunk of this book read (if not all of it).
- How to Be Filled With the Holy Spirit by A.W. Tozer: For years I’ve been intrigued by the debate between Reformed and Wesleyan thinkers. I haven’t made up my mind and I’m not sure that I ever will, but I love reading about Christian doctrine and philosophy. I’ve read plenty of books and articles discussing Reformed theology, but I haven’t read a lot about Arminianism. My girlfriend’s dad (who is a pastor) gave me this book along with a transcript of a debate between a Calvinist and an Arminian. I hope to have both read in the very near future.
- How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer: Francis Schaeffer was one of the most renowned Christian thinkers of the 20th century, and this is his most famous book. I think this one will be fun.
- The Old Testament: The OT is hard to read. I’ve read the New Testament several times, but I’ve only read large chunks of the OT. My goal last year was to read the entire Bible, and that has spilled into this year. Time to jump back in the saddle and get it done.
So what do you guys think about my list? Any suggestions or criticisms? Do any of you have a reading list for the year?
- Wes
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