I haven't seen the movie. I just saw it on the library shelf and figured I should read it
Fair warning though, there is a lot of language in it that's considered offensive in modern times. In context it makes perfect sense to use it, but it's there.
Yeah I know! And what is weird about it to me is that Scout is the one who uses a lot of language. I really enjoy the movie though. Gregory Peck stars as Atticus.
Well, I am going to start Der König von Narnia, or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which, translated is "The King of Narnia". It's part of the German homework I made for myself.
You'll let us know how it goes, yes?
I suppose your knowing the story before and recalling many passages will help you with German.
I got into English that way, after a reading in Swedish. BUT, "gay" meant one thing when CSL put the word in Puddleglum's mouth and another thing since 1970's, I found out.
Yeah, it does.
I've been reading the "Heroines Behind the Lines" series. I got them for Christmas, and I've already read books 1-3 and am working on the fourth. They're about women during the American Civil War. They're pretty good, but they deal with themes inappropriate for younger readers, if you catch my drift.
Over the course of yesterday and today I read "Unwrapping the Pharaohs". I haven't read it since I was, oh, eight or nine I guess. It's not what could be called a storybook, exactly, but definitely cool. And I actually understood what they were talking about this time! 😀 😆
That sounds cool, hobbit. I have been reading Chuck Black's books. Nothing I recommend more at the moment. They start with the Kingdom Series. It is the Bible, but in a midevil setting through the lifetime of one character, if you get that. Very good. Next after in the storyline is The Knights of Arethtrae. Very very very good. More stories of knights fighting for the good side in the same world as the kingdom series. The next series is not even close in style, but almost as awesome as the previously mentioned series. It is placed in our modern world, and the character doesn't even start out to be a christian at first. Highly recommended all of it. Warning. Intense sword fights and shooting and some creepyness.
Yes! I love Kingdom and Knights! Haven't read the others, but those are great!
@ Pev: Ooh, those sound awesome! I'll have to check those out sometime and see if I can read them.
I read The Great Gatsby [disclaimer for content on this one] and Number the Stars on the way to uni in the past couple days.
Buses are good places to read. 🙂
I'm going to start on The Giver tomorrow and pick up German LWW again.
"Heroines Behind the Lines" series. [...] They're about women during the American Civil War.
North, South, both sides same book, both sides different books?
"Unwrapping the Pharaohs".
Unpacking mummies?
Could you try to look up, if so, which ones have been carbon dated? I'd love to know exactly what pieces of Egyptian chronology depend on carbon dating, since I think the present level of C14 is pretty recent (like 500 BC or so).
What is compressed by recalibrating carbon dates should be the carbon dated things, the pharaos attached to others as "253 years after pharao so and so" or "160 years before pharao so and so" are another kettle of fish. And Egyptologists are not very informative to a known creationist like me, when I mail them.
It is the Bible, but in a midevil setting through the lifetime of one character, if you get that.
Christ is set in Medieval society? - Who are the Pharisees (etc.)?
Both sides, same book, for two, three, and four.
The Pharisees in Kingdom are called...Knights of the Code or something like that, right, Pev?
Ah, ok, not very "Medieval" except scenery.
Thanks for info!
Unpacking mummies?
It's about where the different dynasties might fit in with other events in history, based on their records. The title is more metaphoric than literal, like unwrapping the mysteries surrounding them.
Could you try to look up, if so, which ones have been carbon dated? I'd love to know exactly what pieces of Egyptian chronology depend on carbon dating, since I think the present level of C14 is pretty recent (like 500 BC or so).
That's part of what they were talking about in the book. Sometimes, because of some trick of nature, when they carbon-date some mummies they turn up as 2026, or something obnoxious like that. And some times they end up with different dates from a sample taken from the finger and a sample taken from the head. So they've largely stopped trying to date mummies by carbon dating.
