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JIm FUlner

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I'm trying to get this Bookwyrm thing right. I wish I could just edit the database directly, because trying to add over 1,000 books to my library through the web interface is a pain in the butt.

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Peggy Levitt: God Needs No Passport (Paperback, 2009, New Press) No rating

A provocative examination of how new realities of religion and migration are subtly challenging the …

When I picked this out I thought it was going to be diversity of Christianity but it's diversity of "all" regions. Should be interesting.

C. S. Lewis, Joss Ackland: The Screwtape Letters (AudiobookFormat, 2002, HarperAudio) No rating

A milestone in the history of popular theology, The Screwtape Letters is an iconic classic …

This CD collection is too quiet to hear on the lawnmower at max volume. So I'm going to have to pause it and either take it up after I get it repaired, perhaps it will be quieter, otherwise wait until I'm done with Making it So so I can listen in the Van.

commented on M*A*S*H Mania by Richard hooker

Richard hooker: M*A*S*H Mania (Hardcover, 1977, Dodd, Mead and Company)

The Third MASH book written by Hooker. Ignores the previous 12 with his name on …

I don't think I have ever read the N word so many times. I don't recall this in his earlier works.

commented on Over a Torrent Sea by Christopher L. Bennett

Christopher L. Bennett: Over a Torrent Sea (Paperback, 2009, Pocket Books) No rating

As the Federation recovers from the devastating events of Star Trek: Destiny, Captain William Riker …

So, while this is the next one in the Titan series, I feel like I should have read the Destiny trilogy before this. Clearly some major things happened in the meantime that are only mentioned in manner-of-fact ways, including, so far in Chapter 2: Troi got pregnant, and miscarried, troi is pregnant again, The Borg attacked the UFP in a wide scale assault, many of the crew are no longer with us, Titan was forced to end her exploration to fight the borg, and probably more.