[With The Cappadocians,] the term hypostasis was dissociated from that of ousia and became identified with that of prosopon. But this latter term is relational, and was so when adopted in trinitarian theology. This meant that from now on a relational term entered into ontology and, conversely, that an ontological category such as hypostasis entered [...]
Archive for May, 2011
27 May
My review #37 of: A Pair of Blue Eyes
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas HARDY 464 pages ebook This book counts for the Victorian Literature Challenge ABOUT THE BOOK Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his [...]
27 May
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 05/28-29
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 05/28-29 2011 El Ateneo bookstore in Buenos Aires I could not resist reposting this picture posted recent;y by lots of book bloggers, just to make you dream a minute! Good Books for Your Week-end is back, after 2 weeks off to warmer skies… So to compensate, here are 10 titles [...]
26 May
My review #36 of: The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Chronicles Series #2)
The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Chronicles Series #2) by Bernard CORNWELL 349 pages ABOUT THE BOOK The last unvanquished piece of England, Wessex is eyed hungrily by the fearsome Viking conquerors. A dispossessed young nobleman, Uhtred is tied to the imperiled land by birth and marriage but was raised by the Danish invaders—and he questions [...]
26 May
Armchair BEA 2011: Live Chat and Twitter Party
Yesterday night, I listened to/participated in the Live Panel Discussions, with the Armchair BEA organizers and past BEA attendees. It lasted about an hour and was very i.nformative. Here are the main topics they discussed: BEA, Book Festivals & Trade Shows Publisher & Blogger Relationships How to Improve Book Blogging/Publisher Relationships The Blogging Community Where [...]
25 May
My review of: The Last Kingdom
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard CORNWELL 333 pages ABOUT THE BOOK “Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred’s fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of [...]
25 May
My review of: The Alchemist (GN)
The Alchemist by Paulo COELHO Graphic novel – 208 pages ABOUT THE BOOK Andalusian shepherd boy Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of [...]
24 May
My review of: Ella Minnow Pea
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark DUNN 205 pages ABOUT THE BOOK Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” [...]
24 May
My review of: The Worst Hard Time
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy EGAN 312 pages This book counts for My Dewey Decimal Challenge for The 2011 Non-Fiction Challenge ABOUT THE BOOK The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing [...]
24 May
Armchair BEA – Day 2: Favorite 2011 Reads so far
So excited to be part of Armchair BEA for the first time! I missed yesterday’s post, but here is for today. So far, I have read 34 books this year, and listened to 4. Here are the favorite books I have read this year – click on the picture to read my review: FICTION FICTION [...]
23 May
Girl in Translation
Girl in Translation by Jean KWOK 290 pages ABOUT THE BOOK When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life–like the staggering degree of her [...]
11 May
Atlantic
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon WINCHESTER AUDIOBOOK: 14:23 hours This book counts for My Dewey Decimal Challenge for The 2011 Non-Fiction Challenge and for the 2011 Audio Book Challenge ABOUT THE BOOK Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, [...]
11 May
Read in April 2011
Finally a minute to do my April recap! Despite tons of translations to do, and many more services at Chruch, I managed to read 7 books, with a total of 1951 pages, which is an average of 65 pages/day, not surprisingly, my lowest monthly average so far this year. I also listened to 1 audiobook, [...]
11 May
Reading Challenges Galore
I know it’s probably too late to join new reading challenges for 2011, but I just wanted to share this site I just discovered with even more Reading Challenges I have ever seen, and nicely presented. The other lists I had were coming from GoodreadsI think. This one is fantastic. Have a look here.
10 May
A Distant Mirror
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. TUCHMAN 597 pages This book counts for My Dewey Decimal Challenge and for The 2011 Non-Fiction Challenge ABOUT THE BOOK In A Distant Mirror, historian Barbara Tuchman reveals in harrowing detail a “tortured century” with parallels to our own. People in the fourteenth century were [...]
