So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson was moving. Taking the very real examples of individuals in the past decade who’ve been shamed using social media and exploring the rise of shame culture due to social media and the internet and the effects on our psyche and society, Mr. Ronson brings what can be a distant experience and makes it personal. I had to flinch a few times considering some of the comments I made about people on Twitter or Facebook. Granted, I’ve never […]
Is it Valuable or Merely a Model?
Some of you may remember in the early 2000’s when a book called The Prayer of Jabez stormed onto the Christian literary scene. Taken from an obscure verse in the Old Testament the author explicated each portion of the prayer in order to motivate the praying lives of readers. Following up on this idea of taking examples of prayers from the Bible to serve as teaching us how to have better prayer lives, Hank Hanegraaf wrote, The Prayer of Jesus which takes the Lord’s prayer […]
How to Bore Readers and Lose Their Interest
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a classic. At least that’s what many people told me as I slogged through this tome. It’s particularly poignant to the business/sales world where apparently a lot of people don’t know how to relate to other people. The book is a compilation of lectures that Mr. Carnegie delivered at seminars he would give around the country in the 1930’s and 40’s. There are a few updates in the latest edition but those were few […]
Am I a Man of a Beetle or a Beetle of a Man?
I’ve used the opening line from The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka in writing exercises, but I’ve never actually read the novella. Well karma caught up to me. I’ve made some changes to my AP English course and the new anthology includes The Metamorphosis. So it was time for me to read it. Wow. I think what got me through the novella was pure fascination with the point-of-view that Kafka so adroitly develops over the course of the work. While I don’t understand the point of […]
So What Do I Eat?
Last year I read Clean by Dr. Alejandro Junger. Recently, Dr. Junger has added another element to his ideas on diet and healthy living and that relates to the gut. Clean Gut focuses on the digestive track itself and how certain foods affect the digestive track. Special focus is given to probiotics and foods that contribute to the intestinal flora’s good health. While I don’t disagree with Dr. Junger, I feel like his diet recommendations for Clean Gut are a bit extreme. He wants individuals […]
A Brief Look at Purposeful Living
12 Things to Try While You’re Still Mortal by Roy Ice is a book about living a more purposeful life, i.e. making your life count for something. Mr. Ice was my college chaplain and the book came out the year I graduated so I felt it was something I should purchase and take with me into grad school. Sad to say it’s taken almost nine years for me to crack the cover and actually read what he had to say. Based on Christian principles of […]
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