tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post6244216684795258726..comments2023-12-25T00:38:19.500-08:00Comments on Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog (archive): Bridging the Bookish and Mr. KJVSarah Stevensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-11673915689262613592008-12-08T05:43:00.000-08:002008-12-08T05:43:00.000-08:00Yes, Sara's right: dead-on lovely, Tanita! How abo...Yes, Sara's right: dead-on lovely, Tanita! How about one of Bruce Feiler's books about walking the Holy Land? My church-going, insisting-on-Sunday-School parents LOVE them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-7261132225347810592008-12-04T20:22:00.000-08:002008-12-04T20:22:00.000-08:00This IS an amazing post. The guilt feelings about ...This IS an amazing post. The guilt feelings about writing--I can certainly relate, for different reasons, but equally fatherly. <BR/><BR/><I>Get Thee to a Punnery</I> is a great one, as is <I>Galileo's Daughter</I>. Perhaps, eventually, a book about what it's like to be a writer might be a good way to build a bridge, too...Sarah Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-60507938692620440882008-12-04T19:25:00.000-08:002008-12-04T19:25:00.000-08:00Does it enjoy wordplay and/or grammar? Try GET THE...Does it enjoy wordplay and/or grammar? Try GET THEE TO A PUNNERY and other such titles for the former, THINGS THAT MAKE US [SIC] for the latter.Little Willowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17058463472836988047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-35202575624730818342008-12-04T13:47:00.000-08:002008-12-04T13:47:00.000-08:00Hmmm. Maybe a book about words? I get Word a Day ...Hmmm. Maybe a book about words? I get Word a Day emails from Anu Garg at wordsmith, and his book The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two sounds interesting, although I can't vouch since I haven't actually read it.<BR/><BR/>Would he enjoy a Christian classic such as Mere Christianity by Lewis or Orthodoxy by Chesterton, or are those too outside the KJV boundaries?<BR/><BR/>I really like WORLD magazine, a news magazine from a Christian perspective, and some men would rather read magazines than books.<BR/><BR/>I do hope you find exactly the right thing to build that bridge.Sherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04664642293286996220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-8430722347850364492008-12-04T05:21:00.000-08:002008-12-04T05:21:00.000-08:00:)Common ground, indeed.Thanks for all the suggest...:)<BR/>Common ground, indeed.<BR/>Thanks for all the suggestions, you guys; I'm still just feeling my way on this...tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-47397272588726053092008-12-03T20:48:00.000-08:002008-12-03T20:48:00.000-08:00Dang! This is a thing of beauty. A manifesto of lo...Dang! This is a thing of beauty. A manifesto of love and risk and surprise. It reminds me of the Sara Vowel piece about her dad building a homemade cannon. Did you guys listen to that??? It's amazing the common ground under each of our feet. Anyway, I'm wandering here. But sheesh. I'm just so struck and weepy over this...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-36894910519547417162008-12-03T18:42:00.000-08:002008-12-03T18:42:00.000-08:00LOL - Colleen, you are too funny! I've heard many ...LOL - Colleen, you are too funny! I've heard many people say that!<BR/><BR/>Okay, instead of Krakauer, how about Matthiessen? <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Leopard-Penguin-Nature-Classics/dp/0140255087/" REL="nofollow">Snow Leopard</A> is the story of Matthiessen's trek through Nepal with the zooologist in search of snow leopards.Triciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-65027636724985042362008-12-03T16:21:00.000-08:002008-12-03T16:21:00.000-08:00While I can certainly appreciate all of Tricia's s...While I can certainly appreciate all of Tricia's suggestions I loathe Krakauer so much that I beg you not to buy that book.<BR/><BR/>The man just...ugh.<BR/><BR/>Does your father like baseball? I used to buy my father baseball history books as he was a fan of the game but not fanatical. If he does then I strongly recommend Roger Kahn's "Boys of Summer" about Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers. It's a wonderful piece of writing and if he has any interest in Robinson at all he will love this.<BR/><BR/>Also I seem to recall that your father was in the military - I may be way wrong on this (hard to keep all my online friends straight sometimes! :) but if that's the case then the James McBride WWII novel "Miracle at St Anna" might appeal to him as well. It's a novel but about the real racial situation in the army in 1944 so it might click for him.Colleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18380722344521975869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-42739318482775795672008-12-03T13:51:00.000-08:002008-12-03T13:51:00.000-08:00I wonder, would he consider something like The Pil...I wonder, would he consider something like <I>The Pilgrim's Progress</I> or (to suggest something in more genuinely novelistic form) <I>Robinson Crusoe</I> as worthless use of the imagination? (I actually found <I>Crusoe</I> boring for the most part, but nobody ever told me that it contains one of the most unapologetically forthright Christian conversion scenes ever written in the English language. I was positively stunned when I read it.)<BR/><BR/>On the historical non-fiction side, <I>Galileo's Daughter</I> by Dava Sobel is an interesting read in that it not only tells a lot about Galileo's life and work, but also about his devout faith -- something which is often overlooked by people who like to claim it was Galileo vs. the Church, Science vs. Ignorance, and never the twain shall meet.R.J. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503519800068573393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-37448334183071290702008-12-03T08:44:00.000-08:002008-12-03T08:44:00.000-08:00The one book I recommend to nearly everyone I know...The one book I recommend to nearly everyone I know in your position is Bill Bryson's <A HREF="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/bb_title/display.pperl?isbn=9780767908184" REL="nofollow">A Short History of Nearly Everything</A>. It is a remarkable piece of work, and contains everything from history to science.<BR/><BR/>The other books I highly recommend if you have a reader interested survival and testing the human spirit are these (all good stories for men, but I loved them too):<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Harms-Way-Indianapolis-Extraordinary-Survivors/dp/0805073663/" REL="nofollow">In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors</A> by Doug Stanton<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfred-Lansing/dp/078670621X/" REL="nofollow">Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage</A> by Alfred Lansing<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/0613663616/" REL="nofollow">Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster</A> by Jon Krakauer<BR/><BR/>Good luck with this! I'm going to keep checking back to see what others recommend. I may find a title to use myself!Triciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-24566775281753559702008-12-03T07:51:00.000-08:002008-12-03T07:51:00.000-08:00Tanita. Let me give it to you straight: this post ...Tanita. Let me give it to you straight: this post is dead-on lovely. I want to run to the editors of The Atlantic or somewhere and say, "Publish this for Father's Day!" Or any day. It reminds me of the humor and truth of Pat Conroy.<BR/><BR/>I'm thinking about giving my dad <I>Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . : Understanding Philosophy through Jokes</I>, by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. (saw it at GuysLitWire.) That says a lot about him...and me.Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225998457253574928noreply@blogger.com