While I recommend this book to anyone, potential readers should know it spends a lot of time adjacent to Catholic practices and explores the relevance of concepts (especially forgiveness) traditionally found in Christian theology for contemporary life. It explores what it means to lead a spiritual life, or a life of devotion, but doesn't necessarily evangelize for Christianity per se. You could argue that Christianity is only the vehicle for that narrative.
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sociodicy reviewed Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Outstanding
5 stars
While I recommend this book to anyone, potential readers should know it spends a lot of time adjacent to Catholic practices and explores the relevance of concepts (especially forgiveness) traditionally found in Christian theology for contemporary life. It explores what it means to lead a spiritual life, or a life of devotion, but doesn't necessarily evangelize for Christianity per se. You could argue that Christianity is only the vehicle for that narrative.
sociodicy finished reading Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …
sociodicy reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our …
Lecturing
3 stars
I surprised myself as a former academic how little time I had for this books lecture-like detours. Palmer's informational tangents on historic European personages out of the 18th century began to grate. Then there was the (granted, imaginative) construction of a future society that basically was a compare & contrast of that time. Is it fun think up a hybrid scifi that incorporates something new with your research? Sure, for a time. I found my patience ran thin quickly. It's an achievement nonetheless.
I surprised myself as a former academic how little time I had for this books lecture-like detours. Palmer's informational tangents on historic European personages out of the 18th century began to grate. Then there was the (granted, imaginative) construction of a future society that basically was a compare & contrast of that time. Is it fun think up a hybrid scifi that incorporates something new with your research? Sure, for a time. I found my patience ran thin quickly. It's an achievement nonetheless.
sociodicy rated Stone Yard Devotional: 5 stars
sociodicy rated Beekeeper's Apprentice: 4 stars
Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King
In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman …
sociodicy rated Joe Country (Slough House, #6): 3 stars
sociodicy rated Light of the Jedi: 3 stars
Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule (The High Republic, Star Wars)
"Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before even The Phantom Menace . . . Jedi lit the way …
sociodicy rated A Study in Scarlet Women: 3 stars
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas (Lady Sherlock series -- bk.1)
"USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down... With her inquisitive mind, …
sociodicy rated Last One at the Wedding: 3 stars
sociodicy rated The Pretender: 3 stars
sociodicy rated Battlefront: Twilight Company: 4 stars
Battlefront: Twilight Company by Alexander Freed (Battlefront)
The bravest soldiers. The toughest warriors. The ultimate survivors.
Among the stars and across the vast expanses of space, …
sociodicy rated The Mask of Fear: 4 stars
The Mask of Fear by Alexander Freed (Reign of the Empire, #1)
Before the Rebellion, the Empire reigns, in book one of a trilogy told through the eyes of Mon Mothma, Bail …
sociodicy rated Alphabet Squadron: 4 stars
Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed
On the verge of victory in a brutal war, five New Republic pilots transform from hunted to hunters in this …
Star Wars by Alexander Freed
Alphabet Squadron's hunt for the deadliest TIE fighters in the galaxy continues in this Star Wars adventure!
News of …