Q Review Questions
To be fair, some of these links are not reviews as such – merely often reflections, recommendations or provocations from these books, movies or music. But some of them are more substantial reviews – just click on the images to see what’s what. By the way, in case it is of use, I’ve recently worked on a couple of things to help people engage with what they listen to or read (for Lars Dahle’s project Engaging Media over in Norway). Here are links to both the documents themselves (they are available on Scribd) plus some explanation of what lies behind them:
Q Review Questions
To be fair, some of these links are not reviews as such – merely often reflections, recommendations or provocations from these books, movies or music. But some of them are more substantial reviews – just click on the images to see what’s what. By the way, in case it is of use, I’ve recently worked on a couple of things to help people engage with what they listen to or read (for Lars Dahle’s project Engaging Media over in Norway). Here are links to both the documents themselves (they are available on Scribd) plus some explanation of what lies behind them:
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20 Questions to Ask of Novels
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20 Questions to Ask of Albums
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20 Questions to Ask of Popular History
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Q Reading & Watching
(Amazon Lists)
Here are a few reading lists for fun, interest, to while away the hours. More will get added in time I suspect! Totally personal choices and purely a matter of prejudice, preference and subjectivity. Not suggesting you buy them on Amazon at all, either, but it seemed a cunning way of getting the lists online. To check out individual book reviews, click HERE. Otherwise go to the individual lists: Holy Books!
- Christian Foundations – some suggestions for where you might start
- The Good Book – suggestions for how to get into the big book
- Favourite Commentaries – there are various lists out there, but these are some of my faves
- Christian books that really make you think – does what it says on the tin
Being Alive in Today’s World
- U2 Books – for religious nuts and political fanatics
- African Addiction – novels, histories, journalism
- Postmodernism – novels, introductions, texts
- Being English – history and profiles showing us what we are
Those Alive in Yesterday’s World – Historical Fact & Fiction
- History like wot you’ve never read before – a rather quirky list of books that tackle history in a very unusual or inspiring way
- Historical Novels – my favourite type of novel
- 2WW – accounts, challenges, horrors of the 2nd World War
- Cold War Shivers – John Le Carre etc – atmosphere and spies aplenty
- 20th Century Lives that affected the world
DVDs to get one thinking or living
- VIRTUAL WORLDS – films to make you reevaluate the real world
- HUMAN LIVES – films that understand people, warts and all
- Favourite Documentaries on DVD
