Ebenezer Stone » Books http://ebenezerstone.org A collection of observations and memories Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A List for Rick Bennett (and friends) http://ebenezerstone.org/2006/08/24/a-list-for-rick-bennett-and-friends/ http://ebenezerstone.org/2006/08/24/a-list-for-rick-bennett-and-friends/#comments Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:26:42 +0000 Mike http://www.ebenezerstone.org/2006/08/24/a-list-for-rick-bennett-and-friends/ Continue reading →]]>
  • One book that changed your life:
    Lord of the Flies by William Golding
    The Florida State University Student Bulletin
    Barney: I see Barney! by Quinlan B. Lee
  • One book that you’ve read more than once:
    Don’t Make Me Think! by Steve Krug (note: it’s an interface design book, sorry.)
  • One book you’d want on a desert island:
    How to Survive on a Desert Island
  • One book that made you laugh:
    Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
  • One book that made you cry:
    Silence by Shusaku Endo
  • One book you wish had been written:
    My Life by Abraham Lincoln
  • One book you wish had never been written:
    Barney: I see Barney! by Quinlan B. Lee
  • One book you’re currently reading:
    Simply Christian by N.T. Wright
  • One book you’ve been meaning to read:
    The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Tag 5 others: Mark Houghton, and… uh… I guess I need to get out more.

    • All done, Rick. Now I don’t have to write again for another six months or so.

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    • “Silence” by Shusaku Endo
    • “The Power and the Glory” by Graham Greene
    • “The Diary of a Country Priest” by Georges Bernanos
    • “For the Time Being” by Annie Dillard
    • “Godric” by Frederick Buechner
    • “Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace” by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
    • “Till We Have Faces” by C.S. Lewis
    • “A Severe Mercy” by Sheldon Vanauken
    • “Traveling Mercies” by Anne Lamott
    • “Blue Like Jazz” by Donald Miller
    • “Irresistable Revolution” by Shane Claiborne
    • “Salvation on Sand Mountain” by Dennis Covington

    That’ll do for now.

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