http://www.goodreads.com/user/updates_rss/710201 en-US Thu, 08 May 2008 08:27:52 -0700 60 http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 24413460 Thu, 08 May 2008 08:27:52 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21851937 Going Out (Sign About)
by Anthony Lewis
bookshelves: childrens
This can be used to teach your kid 30+ signs for common things. ]]> 24413307 Thu, 08 May 2008 08:25:51 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21851822 to: Myrtle (Hardcover)
by Tracey Campbell Pearson
bookshelves: childrens
The illustrations are a bit overly busy, but my daughter seems to have enjoyed the story. It's a good lesson in ignoring mean people and going on with your business instead of allowing them to ruin your day or your mood. ]]> 24413157 Thu, 08 May 2008 08:24:37 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21851692 to: Leo's Tree (Paperback)
by Debora Pearson
bookshelves: childrens
This book has attractive illustrations, and the story is written as a halfway decent poem. It's about a little boy and the tree that is planted when he is born. My daughter enjoyed it. ]]> 24399997 Thu, 08 May 2008 04:33:00 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21841963 There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind (Hardcover)
by Antony Flew
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]]> 24252496 Tue, 06 May 2008 14:20:41 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21725007 The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Paperback)
by Bjorn Lomborg
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]]> 24214077 Tue, 06 May 2008 07:36:10 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21694504 A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
bookshelves: currently-reading
]]> 24116225 Mon, 05 May 2008 04:45:46 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21621872 to: The Kissing Hand (Hardcover)
by Audrey Penn
bookshelves: childrens
A sweet story about a little racoon on his first day of school, and how his mom's love goes with him. My daughter didn't relate much to this story because she's never been the least bit concerned about running off into any new social situation, but it's well told. ]]> 24116192 Mon, 05 May 2008 04:44:12 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21621847 to: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Paperback)
by Mem Fox
bookshelves: childrens
This is a sad and simultaneously sweet children's story about a boy who helps an old woman "find her memory." For some reason, it really captured my daughter's attention. The illustrations are not particularly attractive, but they are unique. ]]> 24116189 Mon, 05 May 2008 04:42:31 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21621844 to: Tiger and the New Baby (Tiger)
by Vivian French
bookshelves: childrens
]]> 24116126 Mon, 05 May 2008 04:38:57 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21421534 Keely's review of Mere Christianity
by C.S. Lewis

I don't really disagree with anything you've said in the comment above. I was being too flip. We arrive at our opinions not because we think they are "right" in an absolute sense, but because we think they are "more right" than something else. And when we find something that seems "more right" than that, we change the opinion. (If we are thinking creatures, that is.) I just find it amusing in debate when, if I defend a position, someone will fling back, "You think you're right about everything, don't you?" Well, I'm defending this position, because it seems more defensible to me than your position at this time. It doesn't mean I can't change it one day if I'm confronted with more convincing arguments on behalf of some other position, but I don't spend any amount of time defending positions I believe to be wrong. ]]>