Derek Emerson's Profile

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Derek is Currently Reading

Derek Emerson is currently reading:

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Feb 01, 2012 07:18pm

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The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

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Jan 14, 2012 07:19pm

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Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

by Frederick Buechner

bookshelves: kindle, christian, currently-reading

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Dec 27, 2011 07:08pm

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Derek Emerson gave to: Emma by Jane Austen	My rating:
Feb 11, 2012 07:27pm
Derek Emerson gave to: Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen	My rating:
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Derek Emerson gave to: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen	My rating:
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Derek Emerson gave to: Conversing with God in Scripture: A Contemporary Approach to Lectio Divina by Stephen J. Binz read in February, 2012	My rating:
Feb 07, 2012 05:56pm
Derek Emerson is currently reading: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer	My rating:
Feb 01, 2012 07:18pm
Derek Emerson gave to: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien recommended for: everyone read in March, 2011	My rating:
I've read this book several times and teach it in a freshman college writing/literature class. It drives my students up a wall and then they love it. O'Brien does a great job of showing the confusion of war in general and Vietnam in particular. But t...more
Feb 01, 2012 07:17pm · see review
Derek Emerson is currently reading: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton	My rating:
Jan 14, 2012 07:19pm
Derek Emerson gave to: Everything Beautiful Began After: A Novel by Simon Van Booy read in January, 2012	My rating:
This is Van Booy's first novel after two excellent short story collections. While it starts strong, a daring change in the plot (no spoilers here!) fails to carry the momentum and the books disintegrates about 3/4 of the way through. Van Booy is a ra...more
Jan 14, 2012 07:16pm · see review
Derek Emerson has challenged himself to read 40 books in the 2012 Reading Challenge He has read 2 books toward his goal of 40 books. 2 of 40 (5%) Create your own 2012 Reading Challenge »
Jan 02, 2012 05:21pm · view books

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Quotes Derek Likes

“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!”
― William Shakespeare

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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem For A Nun

tags: past

237 people liked it

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband , marriage , opening-lines , wife

2,289 people liked it

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

tags: achievements

152 people liked it