The Risen by Ron RashMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Sunday, June 29, 2025
Review: The Risen
The Risen by Ron RashMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Read this book while traveling across the country yesterday. Short enough to read entirely with the day's travel. Kept me entertained while I watched the land and clouds roll by through the plane window. I listened to the audiobook, narration was done well. Perhaps more notes on this when I've returned from my travels.
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Friday, June 27, 2025
Review: The Risen
The Risen by Ron RashMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Read this book while traveling across the country yesterday. Short enough to read entirely with the day's travel. Kept me entertained while I watched the land and clouds roll by through the plane window. I listened to the audiobook, narration was done well. Perhaps more notes on this when I've returned from my travels.
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Review: Notes to Myself
Notes to Myself by Hugh PratherMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Notes to Myself by Hugh Prather
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hugh Prather decided to be a writer, while his wife supported them on her teaching salary. Back in the late 60’s this may have been an usual set-up. After a few years he wasn’t getting very far, so he gleaned statements from his journal and the result was this book
They are mostly notes of helping him become a better person. They can be philosophical, or help you think about ways to approach life. It's not quite self-help. I feel like my description here is faulty.
The book has a lot of white space. The notes can be a sentence or two, often longer to a paragraph or more. In-between there is a small graphic of two leaves, at least in my copy of the book.
This book did well for him and these notes became very popular in the 1970s. It started him on a series of a similar theme.
I bought a used copy of the book when I was in my early-twenties and read about half of the book. I liked it at the time, thought it was profound. Not sure why I didn’t finish, but I always wanted to return to it.
Now many years later, I’m trying to get to some of these older books. Started over and read through in a couple of days, and, well it was okay. Didn’t find it amazing or anything. Perhaps the book was more profound while young or the intervening years I’ve lived more. Not sure.
I expect this may be one of those books that when it finds you at the right time it very good, but if not it’s just okay.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hugh Prather decided to be a writer, while his wife supported them on her teaching salary. Back in the late 60’s this may have been an usual set-up. After a few years he wasn’t getting very far, so he gleaned statements from his journal and the result was this book
They are mostly notes of helping him become a better person. They can be philosophical, or help you think about ways to approach life. It's not quite self-help. I feel like my description here is faulty.
The book has a lot of white space. The notes can be a sentence or two, often longer to a paragraph or more. In-between there is a small graphic of two leaves, at least in my copy of the book.
This book did well for him and these notes became very popular in the 1970s. It started him on a series of a similar theme.
I bought a used copy of the book when I was in my early-twenties and read about half of the book. I liked it at the time, thought it was profound. Not sure why I didn’t finish, but I always wanted to return to it.
Now many years later, I’m trying to get to some of these older books. Started over and read through in a couple of days, and, well it was okay. Didn’t find it amazing or anything. Perhaps the book was more profound while young or the intervening years I’ve lived more. Not sure.
I expect this may be one of those books that when it finds you at the right time it very good, but if not it’s just okay.
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