Entries Categorized as 'Books'

Challies Monthly Competition

May 1, 2008

Tim Challies has been running monthly competitions for quite some time and he has a heap of books to give away this month.
You’ve got just seven days to enter before the draw and you can enter by clicking the photo in this post or simply clicking here.
There are three prizes, each with a collection of [...]

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Closing the book on 2007

December 31, 2007

Have you wrapped up your reading for 2007?
What was your favourite book for the year?
Mine would have to be Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture by Michael Frost.
We live in a time when more followers of Jesus are living outside the church than ever before. People who are still very keen to follow Christ [...]

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Amazon Kindle

December 15, 2007

They’re only selling in the U.S. at the moment but I’m sure they’ll be more widely available soon.
The Amazon Kindle is a brilliant idea for those who like to have reading material at hand wherever they go. If you want a demonstration of the device you can see a video at the Amazon Kindle webpage.
They [...]

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You’ve Got Mail

December 8, 2007

I love receiving parcels.
I got home a couple of days ago to find a small parcel waiting for me. It was a book that had made its way across the seas from Tony Sheng.
Tony recently celebrated his 5th blog birthday and so he wrote a post called Blog Birthday and Books where he offered his [...]

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Summer Reading Challenge

December 6, 2007

Today marks the first day of the Premier’s Summer Reading Challenge 2007-08.
Over the summer holidays children around Western Australia are being challenged to spend time reading. By registering for the Challenge, children can win a range of prizes. I also see that parents who read to their child will go in a special prize [...]

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Got your invitation?

November 1, 2007

If you’re in my email address book you probably have.
Sorry to burst your bubble but my ‘personal invite’ doesn’t necessarily mean that I meant to invite you. That’s not to say that I don’t want to check out what you’re reading, it just means that Shelfari is a more than a little sneaky in the [...]

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