Table of Elements on the Web

Here is a site that has history and news of the Table of Elements.

Webelements: The Periodic Table on the Web

New Book

Well its time to start on a new book. We agreed on Monday that the next book would be scientific but in a readable fashion. We whittled down from 3 books to the one we picked:
"The Disappearing Spoon: and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements" by Sam Kean.

Just in case you are interested the others we looked at were:


The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks


Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math

We will be having the next meeting on September 19th at the same bat time (7pm). Have fun reading and I look forward to talking with you about it.

Another Book by Donald Miller

I also read "Searching for God Knows What". This was fantastic to read especially if you would like to think about why we do certain things and how they fit into what Jesus really said. Powerful ties to relationship while distancing from "right" and "wrong" answers. Definitely challenges you to think about what following Jesus really means and if living for Jesus is exactly the point when we could live with Jesus. Or is there a destination or instead a person that is the goal, Jesus? I would highly recommend it as a good read.

Looking for God Knows What

I am reading another book by Donald Miller and I think I am even more impressed by this one.

Book List

Books we have read thus far:
The Shack by William P. Young
Blessed Child by Ted Dekker
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Abraham Lincoln by James McPherson
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
What God Wishes Christians Knew About Christianity by Bill Gilham
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
What's So Amazing About Grace by Phillip Yancey
Son of Hamas by Mosab Hasan Yousef
The Divine Commodity by Skye Jethani
The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Mannning
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron and Denver Moore
Moongate by William Proctor
The Hound of the Bsskerville's by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller


We haven't talked about Blue Like Jazz yet, but it will be the 15th book in the Book Club. Its hard to imagine that we have gone through that many books. I have been bery blessed in that I struggled to read the book we needed to at the start and now I am reading more than a book a month and much in addition for work or magazines/ artilcles that interest me. I hope everyone else is being blessed by the group.

Blue Like Jazz

We are currently going through Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller. I went ahead and got the 3 in 1 book from Amazon with Searching for God Knows What and Through Painted Deserts along with Blue Like Jazz. So far I have loved what I have read.

Here is the wikipedia article on Blue Like Jazz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Like_Jazz

Also here is the link to Amazon's books for Blue Like Jazz
Blue Like Jazz
And the 3 in 1 Donald Miller
3 in 1

Starting up again

I apologize for not posting for quite some time. But I wanted to start posting again since this is a great place to put some related links and allow commentary on the books that we are reading. I will be posting the name of the book we are currently reading and will post the list of books we have read. Feel free to comment on the book we are reading or even the ones we have read in the past.