What Are You Reading?

[Suesumba]

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Fall on Your Knees. i can't believe i paid almost $25 for a flipping book

but it's good reading.

[Compry]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Fall on Your Knees. i can't believe i paid almost $25 for a flipping book

but it's good reading. </div></div>

What is it about Sue?

[Diplomat]

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&quot;The Paradox of Pain&quot; ~ A.E. Wilder Smith

From the back cover: &quot;In a world given over to despair of the irrational and the absurd, man needs to find intellectually satisfying answers to the paradox of pain. This book searches out meaning in the abyss of suffering, evil, injustice, blood and anguish in which the human race finds itself. The author discovers that love is the great producer of meaning even in suffering.&quot;

[loops]

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The Septembers of Shiraz~by Dalia Sofer

From Publishers Weekly
Sofer's family escaped from Iran in 1982 when she was 10, an experience that may explain the intense detail of this unnerving debut. On a September day in 1981, gem trader Isaac Amin is accosted by Revolutionary Guards at his Tehran office and imprisoned for no other crime than being Jewish in a country where Muslim fanaticism is growing daily. Being rich and having had slender ties to the Shah's regime magnify his peril. In anguish over what might be happening to his family, Isaac watches the brutal mutilation and executions of prisoners around him. His wife, Farnaz, struggles to keep from slipping into despair, while his young daughter, Shirin, steals files from the home of a playmate whose father is in charge of the prison that holds her father. Far away in Brooklyn, Isaac's nonreligious son, Parviz, struggles without his family's money and falls for the pious daughter of his Hasidic landlord. Nicely layered, the story shimmers with past secrets and hidden motivations. The dialogue, while stiff, allows the various characters to come through. Sofer's dramatization of just-post-revolutionary Iran captures its small tensions and larger brutalities, which play vividly upon a family that cannot, even if it wishes to, conform.

it's a very good book...similar to Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

[Stormmey]

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For a breath of life...by Laila Kayum

The true story of a boy's resilience and his family's determination. A riveting book about a family's ordeal in nurturing a child with an exceptionally rare disorder. A must read emotional account about trials, tribulations and most of all triumphs, endurance and spirit. Most important though is that they dared to step outside the box that the medical profession wanted them to stay in. A true testimony of a parents love and persistence.

[Stormmey]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CEW</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stormmey1</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">CEW</span> which book would you recommend to someone like me, weak in the Faith. Not really a disbeliever and not really a believer. I find the bible <span style="font-weight: bold">extremely boring</span>, but then I have a different spin on religion One of these days I will send you a PM </div></div>
<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="color: #000099">The *real* CEW standing up and clearing throat...cough, cough, ahem...</span></span>

That would be a bit difficult without knowing what books fit your reading genre, but feel free to PM me and we can continue this discussion </div></div>

<span style="font-weight: bold">CEW </span>I will PM you...one day I do stuff when the spirit touches me.

[Stormmey]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Silent_River</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stormmey1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

<span style="font-weight: bold">CEW</span> which book would you recommend to someone like me, weak in the Faith. Not really a disbeliever and not really a believer. I find the bible <span style="font-weight: bold">extremely boring</span> , but then I have a different spin on religion One of these days I will send you a PM </div></div>

((((Stormmey))))), you made me DWL..I love your honesty..Once upon time it became boring to me too..So I can relate..Back then I could, not at this present time however..... </div></div>

SR

[Stormmey]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CEW</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">The Art of Forgiving: When You Need to Forgive &amp; Don't Know How</span> - Lewis B. Smedes

From the back cover: &quot;Using many dramatic examples drawn from life, this wise author illuminates, step by step, the healing path to peace.&quot;

I've read Smedes before and consider him a terrific writer. The first paragraph reaffirms my opinion, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the book.

<span style="font-weight: bold">ETA:</span> Excellent read with very practical and challenging insights, some of which will definitely squeeze your comfort zone. </div></div>

<span style="font-weight: bold">CEW</span>

I went out and got this book, and like you said it squeeze your comfort zone. The need for me to forgive is paramount for me right now but....you know human nature. I have put it aside (the book)for now as I am missing that crucial piece of equipment. The will to forgive her I guess everything in life comes gradually, I will not force it <span style="font-weight: bold">will</span> come one day.

[Diplomat]

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Recently completed Reginald Stackhouse's &quot;How Can I Believe When I Live In A World Like This?&quot;

Excellent - and relatively old - little book on theodicy (the problem of pain and suffering and the justice of God) that gives a reasoned response to the title-question.