By: Mike on October 17, 2017
Derek Rowntree’s, Learn How to Study is a tried-and-proven resource book that helps students learn skills and approaches to improve their study habits. First published in 1970, the book has undergone six revisions, the latest in 2016. Rowntree, once a professor at the United Kingdom’s Open University, has been teaching university level students how to…
By: Kyle Chalko on October 13, 2017
How to NOT talk about books you haven’t read… A little over a year ago a megachurch pstor was brought in to guest lecture as part of my Biblical Interpretation class that I was teaching (I did not have a say in the matter, although I was excited to share a small platform with him).…
By: Dan Kreiss on October 13, 2017
As I sit with a hot cup of tea, curled up on the couch with my computer (damn e-books) I am in the place and space I love most in the world. To sit unimpeded by distractions of noise, children, work etc. and read……there is nothing better or more rare in my life. And Pierre…
By: Chip Stapleton on October 13, 2017
Everyone comes at the question in their own way, with different assumptions and with different motivations for seeking out the knowledge, but eventually almost all of us humans will end up wrestling with the question of meaning in our lives: ‘Why am I here?’; ‘What is my purpose?’; ‘What really matters?’; etc. And when we…
By: Mark Petersen on October 12, 2017
The first course of my university career was held on the sixteenth floor of the austere Arts Tower at Carleton University in Ottawa in fall 1983. Twentieth Century French Literature, or more accurately, “La littérature française du xxe siècle”, was taught entirely in French, and even more intimidating to me at the tender age of 19 than the…
By: Kristin Hamilton on October 12, 2017
Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is what I like to call a Very Important Book™ (VIB). To understand what gives Sapiens its VIB status, one must look carefully at the presentation of material. First, pick up the book – feel the weight of it, so different from other books of the…
By: Trisha Welstad on October 12, 2017
I did not read “How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read,” at least not in its entirety. As I began to use Albert Adler’s basic principle of the second level of reading to examine Bayard’s book I felt I could not do the text much justice if I did not immediately get at the…
By: Dave Watermulder on October 12, 2017
I am a confirmed bibliophile. I love books. I love buying them, reading them, talking about them, and putting them up on the bookshelf that features prominently in the living room of my home. When I visit someone’s home, I always notice whether or not they have a bookshelf, which books are on that shelf,…
By: Lynda Gittens on October 12, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4EIODEpYXE I have intentionally utilized by senses to not indulge in the readings of evolution or other theories outside my belief of God’s creation. I didn’t want to be swayed from eternal life. This book was a school requirement that again challenged me to read other views. Author Herari begins his history timeline at 13.5…
By: Stu Cocanougher on October 12, 2017
Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? These are questions that Philosophy, Theology, and Science all seek to answer. The book Sapiens, by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, is a detailed attempt at providing answers to these ultimate questions via the discipline of Anthropology. Harari’s popular book claims that 6…
By: Chris Pritchett on October 12, 2017
The title of Bayard’s book is obviously compelling. I engaged the book specifically with the interest of learning practical skills that would help me absorb books in different ways in order to make better use of my time for this program. Additionally, parishioners are constantly peddling books to me, very few of which I am…
By: Jason Turbeville on October 12, 2017
That is the question at hand in How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard. I suppose I could hone in on the chapter about Groundhog Day, one of the best movies of the last 50 years, but there was a moment in my reading where I had to ask myself, did the…
By: Christal Jenkins Tanks on October 12, 2017
There are three discussion topics that will surely invoke a lively conversation at your next family dinner: religion, politics and the book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Over the course of our learning in this program we have read other authors who have graveled with the most known historical narratives…
By: Jean Ollis on October 12, 2017
“If a book is less a book than it is the whole of the discussion about it, we must pay attention to that discussion in order to talk about the book without reading it. For it is not the book itself that is at stake, but what it has become within the critical space in…
By: Katy Drage Lines on October 12, 2017
“Raise a glass to freedom, something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you. Raise a glass to the four of us, tomorrow they’ll be more of us, telling the story of tonight.” So sing four idealistic founders of America. Who is it that gets to tell our story? In many ways,…
By: Jennifer Williamson on October 12, 2017
Kirin lived far enough from Lakeridge High School that she could have taken the bus. But lucky for me, my best friend preferred to walk. I lived half way between Kirin’s house and the school, so each morning we met up at the bottom of Sunny Hill Drive to make our way together. We were…
By: Greg on October 12, 2017
Have you ever seen those television programs that reveal the hidden secrets behind magic? It begins with a masked figure hiding in the shadows of the set. Around him are devices seen on magic stages around the world. The hidden secrets of magic, the intrigue and illusion, will be lost on those that watch this…
By: Jake Dean-Hill on October 11, 2017
Pierre Bayard’s How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read was an interesting read, and contrary to the title, I did, in fact, read his book and found a few of the tips rather helpful. I also have to say, I loved the chapter where he talked about the movie Groundhog Day in detail.[1] Not…
By: Jennifer Dean-Hill on October 11, 2017
The origin of humans has been a highly debated topic. But since none of us were there when humans were formed, no one can confidently describe how we came to be. Were we created? Did we evolve? Did we evolve after creation? As a creationist, I find it comforting to consider myself created in the…
By: Mary Walker on October 11, 2017
Just as people were never created, neither, according to the science of biology, is there a ‘Creator’ who ‘endows’ them with anything. There is only a blind evolutionary process, devoid of any purpose, leading to the birth of individuals.”[1] It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in…
