{"id":626,"date":"2005-02-07T08:24:57","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T15:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/626"},"modified":"2005-02-07T08:24:57","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T15:24:57","slug":"recently-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/626","title":{"rendered":"Recently Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rather ecclectic collection of books that I&#8217;ve finished recently, but hadn&#8217;t gotten around to posting. <\/p>\n<p><em>The Ethics of Star Trek<\/em> Judith Barad with Ed Robertson<\/p>\n<p>This book was definitely a disappointment. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read The Physics of Star Trek and The Metaphysics of Star Trek both of which I found interesting. Perhaps because of this I had high hopes for this book. I was, unfortunately, disappointed.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.klishis.com\/Books\/library\/000677.html\">Read More about <em>The Ethics of Star Trek<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Mere Christianity<\/em> C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n<p>I realized that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d actually finished this book several months ago, but managed to forget that I had done so. Take that as you will.<\/p>\n<p>Mere Christianity puts forth some interesting arguments, but I find that although they may have been convincing at the time C.C. Lewis wrote them, I found them less so, in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.klishis.com\/Books\/library\/000678.html\"><strong>Read More about <em>Mere Christianity<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life<\/em> The Dalai Lama<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the previous book I read by the Dalai Lama, this book only took me about nine months to read. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not long books, I just tend to set them aside for something else, and then have to go back an re-read portions to get caught up again.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.klishis.com\/Books\/library\/000679.html\"><br \/>\n<strong>Read More about <em>An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather ecclectic collection of books that I&#8217;ve finished recently, but hadn&#8217;t gotten around to posting. The Ethics of Star Trek Judith Barad with Ed Robertson This book was definitely a disappointment. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read The Physics of Star Trek and The Metaphysics of Star Trek both of which I found interesting. Perhaps because of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-a6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}