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Ali Miller is currently reading:

The Name of the Star (Shades of London, #1)

by Maureen Johnson (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 06, 2012 09:01am

Ali Miller is currently reading:

Les Miserables

by Victor Hugo

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Ali Miller said: "Book-clubbin' this one with Kris - reading a section and discussing it at the end of each week - so it'll be slow going for now. But I'm so glad I'm finally tackling the whole thing."

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— Feb 05, 2012 11:40am

Jan 09, 2012 10:56am · see review

Ali Miller is currently reading:

Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade--And How We Can Fight It

by David Batstone

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Feb 02, 2012 07:08am

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Ali's Recent Updates

Ali Miller gave to: Insurrection: To Believe Is Human, To Doubt Is Divine by Peter Rollins read in February, 2012	My rating:
UPDATE: One of my favorite theology bloggers, Richard Beck, wrote up a great critique of Insurrection here. Well worth the read. I agree that Bonhoeffer presents a more consummate vision of etsi deus non daretur (living as if there was no God) than R...more
Feb 09, 2012 09:26am · see review
Ali Miller marked as to-read: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker	My rating:
Feb 07, 2012 01:23pm
Ali Miller is currently reading: The Name of the Star (Shades of London, #1) by Maureen Johnson (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Feb 06, 2012 09:01am
Ali Miller marked as to-read: Silence by Shusaku Endo	My rating:
Jan 29, 2012 01:37pm
Ali Miller marked as to-read: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green	My rating:
Jan 27, 2012 02:11pm
Ali Miller marked as to-read: The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey	My rating:
Jan 25, 2012 09:48pm
Ali Miller gave to: A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking read in January, 2012	My rating:
The perfect primer for non-scientists (like me) who want to get their physics straight. I especially appreciated how older ideas about time, light, etc were chronologically summarized, so I felt like I got a history lesson as well as a thorough break...more
Jan 23, 2012 08:31pm · see review
Ali Miller marked as to-read: Theology After Wittgenstein by Fergus Kerr	My rating:
Jan 23, 2012 12:21pm
Ali Miller marked as to-read: Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2) by Melina Marchetta (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Jan 21, 2012 11:01am
Ali Miller marked as to-read: Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality by Richard Beck	My rating:
Jan 19, 2012 05:52pm

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Quotes Ali Likes

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: courage , inspirational

706 people liked it

“Love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: love

1,146 people liked it

“He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

8 people liked it

“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: literature , novels , reading

134 people liked it