Hi, hello and what a pile! You made me look like a slacker for sure in October haha. I keep hearing the same thing about the Great Bridge that it's such a good book but so hard to read! So dense and full of information that it's like a college textbook My book of the month was Character Limit, the story of how Elon bought and ruined Twitter sorry X. It goes into some of the history of the people involved and the company's history and has so much behind the scenes stuff. Very interesting read for sure if you're interested in that topic Take care and see ya on the next one!
I haven't had a lot of time to read lately. Life, you know? But, I've started Nonfiction November already with 2 autobiographies: Benjamin Franklin (This is a re-read) and Teddy Roosevelt (I know some about him, but not a lot). I can't wait to keep reading Trollope's books and have a friend who says she has all of them, but I don't know when I can get to her place to borrow them or IF she will let me borrow them. It was her husband's library and he passed. He's a good clean writer so I would like to have my own copies someday. Have a blessed day!
show off! Life . . . oh my goodness don't I know it. We are getting our rears kicked this week. Yes, I noticed that about Can You Forgive Her. I wish he didn't include the curse word "d...." but he even said "G--" instead of writing it all out. I hope you're able to find his books. I'd like to get them all as well. Happy reading my friend~
Me either. I wish more book reviews would give details like this, because I could save the money. I don't have money to throw away on garbage like that, you know?
I read Parable of the Sower in 2021, and I didn't interpret that section as witchcraft. It's more along the lines of lucid dreaming. It's just as well you stopped at page 2, because I don't think you would have enjoyed the rest of the book any better.
Hey John~ Good to see you. I think you're right. I don't think I would have like the book at all. I'm very glad I recognized what was happening on page 2. Astral projection does seem like lucid dreaming. It's a shame I wasted money on it, but I absolutely will never read anything else by this author. I hope you're doing well.
Great wrap up video. I completely agree with your Octavia Butler rant. I haven't read that book nor plan ever to, but as soon as you said Octavia Butler, I knew the book was garbage. Years ago, I came across her book Fledging I believe it was called and the content was disgusting. There were many people who loved that book too and raved about it. I couldn't stomach it. Witchcraft in that one, that doesn't surprise me one bit. I am extremely, extremely picky with secular authors, especially in fiction. The content nowadays is so depraved.
Hello~ You are way ahead of the average Christian woman. I haven't heard of the book Fledging. Thank you for sharing that info. I will be sure to avoid this author from here on. I'm reading more classics now, because finding decent fiction is becoming more challenging. In the Trollope book, he didn't even fill in G-- and I respect that. There is a character that curses the "d----" word. It would be better had it not been in there at all, but compared to modern writing, it's much better. I agree with you 100%, the content today is depraved! Excellent word choice.
Re: the Octavia Butler book... I can take some magical realism in my novels (flying, fantasy, etc.) but that particular book, Parable of the Sower, was terribly violent and I did not like it at all. I'm sure you didn't hear a rave review from me, but I didn't identify it as witchcraft... just as a terrible, horrible and violent novel. You didn't get to the violent parts. That's good.
I remember you telling me recently about the violence, but I don't recall you having a review. There are far too many women who call themselves Christian, but don't recognize full fledged witchcraft and I'm just flabbergasted. Nope, I didn't get past page 2. Prometheus showed me a few pages that validated the occultism in the book and we will be burning it.
@@BookZealots Aside from the violence what I didn't like about the book was that it was about a preacher's daughter who was trying to create her own religion called Earthseed, while living in a disintegrating post-apocalyptic society. I usually like post-apocalyptic novels, but this one was beyond extremely violent. As for dreams of flying, I think that happens naturally for some people. I've had flying dreams in the past. I wouldn't consider that the same as astral projection.
@@BookZealots - You wrote, "There are far too many women who call themselves Christian, but don't recognize full fledged witchcraft...." - so do you think I just "call myself Christian" and in your opinion I'm not one because I have a different definition of what witchcraft is? Please clarify because I thought only the Lord knows who the true Christians are.
@@Eldertalk Linda, with full solicitude, my comment was collective and not directed to you specifically. I have no idea what your definition of what witchcraft is. How could I? We’ve never had this conversation. It sounds like God is convicting you though, and that’s between you and God. As to your comment about “I thought only the Lord knows who the true Christians are;” we cannot condemn (final judgment), only God can do that, but there are many verses that let us know who people are and how we can tell whether we’re being obedient, being separate from the world, by living a biblical/scriptural life, or whether we’re living like the world. We cannot have two masters. Christians are to judge righteously and we’re also to sharpen each other. How else can we recognize/discern who the wolves are? How else are we to discern false teachers? Every Christian is at different levels in our relationship with God, but we should all be on the same path. And that path should align with God’s word. We should be living through a biblical lens. I hope this helps answer your question.
@@BookZealots I don't find witchcraft to be an explanation for every new-age type thing that happens in literature, often in the form of magical realism or fantasy. Mentions of new age type things don't make me abandon books. For one thing, we're dealing with fiction and with author imaginations. However the general plot of The Parable of the Sower was to subvert Christianity replacing it with something called Earthseed. It put me on notice that the author had religious/faith issues I no longer wanted to read about. Another author who did frequently bring up the topic of witchcraft in her later books: Mary Stewart. Her protagonists weren't witches but they encountered witches in all her final novels and even in her children's novels. It was disturbing how attracted she was to the topic later in her writing career. Her first novels weren't like that.
I enjoyed your rant. Dont necessarily agree with you, but thats why I like your videos! If you dont mind my asking, What denomination are you in and which one (if any) were you raised in?
LOL Thank you. And ditto. I was raised in a heathen household; witchcraft and new age mix of everything, which is why I'm able to recognize it fairly well. The name of Jesus was literally a cussword in my household and we observed all of the traditional holidays that people think are Christian. I am not in a denomination. There aren't any in the Bible.
@BookZealots that's right I remember you telling me your parents were hippys. I'm not brining this up to challenge you, I don't think of myself as Christian so it's more of something interesting to talk about than anything. what is your approach to all the witchcraft in the Bible? When Balaam prophesied the greatness of Israel for example. He speaks with his donkey as well. Or new testament. Matthew 4:8 When Satan takes Jesus to the top of a mountain. And I would "argue" (that's a bad word for what I'm trying to say) that there were many denominations in the old and new testaments. The epistles are all addressing different groups of Christians and the old testament.... well there were Many different sects of Judaism. Not trying to pick on you, if this is something that is best not talked about I would rather talk about something else. Biblical Literacy is interesting to me.
Love your channel 😊
Thank you for the sweet compliment. I hope you're having a beautiful day and blessed life. 💗
OMG, I bought “Team Of Rivals “ in 2013, and haven’t read it yet, blushing ☺️
No shame! I've had books longer than that. You're fine! 🤗📚📚
Hi, hello and what a pile! You made me look like a slacker for sure in October haha. I keep hearing the same thing about the Great Bridge that it's such a good book but so hard to read! So dense and full of information that it's like a college textbook
My book of the month was Character Limit, the story of how Elon bought and ruined Twitter sorry X. It goes into some of the history of the people involved and the company's history and has so much behind the scenes stuff. Very interesting read for sure if you're interested in that topic
Take care and see ya on the next one!
I plan on continuing the McCullough read along even though I dnf’d the bridge
Hi Vickie~ I understand. It was a challenging read. I hope the rest of the books are more to your taste. I think John Adams for sure. 🤗📚
I haven't had a lot of time to read lately. Life, you know? But, I've started Nonfiction November already with 2 autobiographies: Benjamin Franklin (This is a re-read) and Teddy Roosevelt (I know some about him, but not a lot).
I can't wait to keep reading Trollope's books and have a friend who says she has all of them, but I don't know when I can get to her place to borrow them or IF she will let me borrow them. It was her husband's library and he passed. He's a good clean writer so I would like to have my own copies someday.
Have a blessed day!
show off! Life . . . oh my goodness don't I know it. We are getting our rears kicked this week. Yes, I noticed that about Can You Forgive Her. I wish he didn't include the curse word "d...." but he even said "G--" instead of writing it all out. I hope you're able to find his books. I'd like to get them all as well. Happy reading my friend~
I haven’t read Tess yet, but have enjoyed other books by him, so it is on my list to read!
I hope you enjoy Tess. It's definitely worth the time.
I've still got about 100 pages to go! Well done on getting through so much. Always appreciate a good honest rant! Vic tober for victory?
What do you think of it? Who is your least favorite character?
I had no idea that book was like that. 😮
Me either. I wish more book reviews would give details like this, because I could save the money. I don't have money to throw away on garbage like that, you know?
I read 4 books this month
Well done! Did you enjoy them?
Entertaining video!!! ❤
😂 Please give little Junie B a hug for me.
@BookZealots I will in the morning. She is in bed now. Long day being a trouble maker.
I read Parable of the Sower in 2021, and I didn't interpret that section as witchcraft. It's more along the lines of lucid dreaming. It's just as well you stopped at page 2, because I don't think you would have enjoyed the rest of the book any better.
Hey John~ Good to see you. I think you're right. I don't think I would have like the book at all.
I'm very glad I recognized what was happening on page 2. Astral projection does seem like lucid dreaming.
It's a shame I wasted money on it, but I absolutely will never read anything else by this author.
I hope you're doing well.
Great wrap up video. I completely agree with your Octavia Butler rant. I haven't read that book nor plan ever to, but as soon as you said Octavia Butler, I knew the book was garbage. Years ago, I came across her book Fledging I believe it was called and the content was disgusting. There were many people who loved that book too and raved about it. I couldn't stomach it. Witchcraft in that one, that doesn't surprise me one bit. I am extremely, extremely picky with secular authors, especially in fiction. The content nowadays is so depraved.
Hello~ You are way ahead of the average Christian woman. I haven't heard of the book Fledging. Thank you for sharing that info. I will be sure to avoid this author from here on. I'm reading more classics now, because finding decent fiction is becoming more challenging. In the Trollope book, he didn't even fill in G-- and I respect that. There is a character that curses the "d----" word. It would be better had it not been in there at all, but compared to modern writing, it's much better.
I agree with you 100%, the content today is depraved! Excellent word choice.
Re: the Octavia Butler book... I can take some magical realism in my novels (flying, fantasy, etc.) but that particular book, Parable of the Sower, was terribly violent and I did not like it at all. I'm sure you didn't hear a rave review from me, but I didn't identify it as witchcraft... just as a terrible, horrible and violent novel. You didn't get to the violent parts. That's good.
I remember you telling me recently about the violence, but I don't recall you having a review. There are far too many women who call themselves Christian, but don't recognize full fledged witchcraft and I'm just flabbergasted.
Nope, I didn't get past page 2. Prometheus showed me a few pages that validated the occultism in the book and we will be burning it.
@@BookZealots Aside from the violence what I didn't like about the book was that it was about a preacher's daughter who was trying to create her own religion called Earthseed, while living in a disintegrating post-apocalyptic society. I usually like post-apocalyptic novels, but this one was beyond extremely violent. As for dreams of flying, I think that happens naturally for some people. I've had flying dreams in the past. I wouldn't consider that the same as astral projection.
@@BookZealots - You wrote, "There are far too many women who call themselves Christian, but don't recognize full fledged witchcraft...." - so do you think I just "call myself Christian" and in your opinion I'm not one because I have a different definition of what witchcraft is? Please clarify because I thought only the Lord knows who the true Christians are.
@@Eldertalk
Linda, with full solicitude, my comment was collective and not directed to you specifically.
I have no idea what your definition of what witchcraft is. How could I? We’ve never had this conversation. It sounds like God is convicting you though, and that’s between you and God.
As to your comment about “I thought only the Lord knows who the true Christians are;” we cannot condemn (final judgment), only God can do that, but there are many verses that let us know who people are and how we can tell whether we’re being obedient, being separate from the world, by living a biblical/scriptural life, or whether we’re living like the world. We cannot have two masters. Christians are to judge righteously and we’re also to sharpen each other. How else can we recognize/discern who the wolves are? How else are we to discern false teachers?
Every Christian is at different levels in our relationship with God, but we should all be on the same path. And that path should align with God’s word. We should be living through a biblical lens. I hope this helps answer your question.
@@BookZealots I don't find witchcraft to be an explanation for every new-age type thing that happens in literature, often in the form of magical realism or fantasy. Mentions of new age type things don't make me abandon books. For one thing, we're dealing with fiction and with author imaginations. However the general plot of The Parable of the Sower was to subvert Christianity replacing it with something called Earthseed. It put me on notice that the author had religious/faith issues I no longer wanted to read about. Another author who did frequently bring up the topic of witchcraft in her later books: Mary Stewart. Her protagonists weren't witches but they encountered witches in all her final novels and even in her children's novels. It was disturbing how attracted she was to the topic later in her writing career. Her first novels weren't like that.
I enjoyed your rant. Dont necessarily agree with you, but thats why I like your videos!
If you dont mind my asking,
What denomination are you in and which one (if any) were you raised in?
LOL Thank you. And ditto.
I was raised in a heathen household; witchcraft and new age mix of everything, which is why I'm able to recognize it fairly well. The name of Jesus was literally a cussword in my household and we observed all of the traditional holidays that people think are Christian.
I am not in a denomination. There aren't any in the Bible.
@BookZealots that's right I remember you telling me your parents were hippys.
I'm not brining this up to challenge you, I don't think of myself as Christian so it's more of something interesting to talk about than anything.
what is your approach to all the witchcraft in the Bible?
When Balaam prophesied the greatness of Israel for example.
He speaks with his donkey as well.
Or new testament.
Matthew 4:8
When Satan takes Jesus to the top of a mountain.
And I would "argue" (that's a bad word for what I'm trying to say) that there were many denominations in the old and new testaments. The epistles are all addressing different groups of Christians and the old testament.... well there were Many different sects of Judaism.
Not trying to pick on you, if this is something that is best not talked about I would rather talk about something else.
Biblical Literacy is interesting to me.