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Trivial Pursuits
Trivial Pursuits: Why Your Real Life Is More Than Media, Money, and the Pursuit of Happiness | Ian Diorio
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Your life is not a reality show. It's actual reality. But too many of us spend our lives on trivial pursuits--media, money, perpetual youth, and a culture of constant entertainment. We try to avoid the realities of pain, depression, loneliness, and mortality by filling our lives with diversions. Even worse, our churches that might use the reality of pain and suffering to point us to the cross instead dress the gospel up in the world's clothing so that it will seem more "relevant." With pinpoint accuracy, LA club DJ turned pastor Ian DiOrio diagnoses the problem and gives us the cure. Exposing our most common empty attempts to find meaning apart from God, DiOrio points us back to God and exhorts us to find meaning in our identities as followers of Christ, as shapers of culture, and as people who participate in communities of worship.
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lulu14
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Definitely a book worth reading. Touches on why so many of the things we focus on today aren‘t as important as our relationship with God

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Bourriquet76
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1. Attempting Beartown on Litsy but I‘m not good at schedules reads. For my book club, we‘re reading Family Tree, but all I have required is an end date.
2. I have a quintessential 70s girl name. It works for me. As a toddler, I wanted to change my name to Lisa.
3. Jake Owen - I Was Jack (You Were Diane), the Mellencamp reference makes me happy.
#trivialthursday

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Jerdencon
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1. I'm not currently
2. Now I wouldn't change it but when I was a kid I wanted to change it to Danielle from Denise
3. A little old but the Havana song
#trivialthursday @GarthRanzz

GarthRanzz Thanks for participating Denise! 6y
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Blaire
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Thanks for the tag @mariaku21
1. My bullet journal for challenges, goodreads for numbers, and litsy for fun.
2. I read them all but prefer 3rd person narrative
3. I‘ll be flying.
4. @merelybookish #trivialthursday #acoupledayslate

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TaylorMay
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1. Goodreads, Litsy, and my Bullet Journal
2. I really don't have a preference that I know of.
3. What?!? I didn't know about this! I don't know what I'll be doing maybe I'll read...? #LitsyOfflineMiniReadAThon
4. Let's keep it in the Sacto family this week @Karen3 @YouReadMyEyes tagged me so I'm tagging you 😁
@GarthRanzz #TrivialThursday

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BookishGirl06
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1. Goodreads 2. First usually. I don‘t mind third though. 3. Probably sleep through the first part of it with it starting at 3 am and later on read. 4. Anyone who wants to do this is considered tagged. #trivialthursday

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ChelseaM6010
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1. Goodreads and Litsy
2. Usually first person
3. I'll probably be working for at least some of it 🤔if I'm not, I'll probably be reading and/or crying. I love Litsy.
4. @AshleyHoss820

#TrivialThursday
@GarthRanzz

AshleyHoss820 I know! What do I do without Litsy!? 😄 6y
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Eggs
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#trivialthursday @GarthRanzz

⏱classics: Shakespeare, Dickinson, Edith Wharton modern: Kristin Hannah, Khaled Hosseini, Jodi Picoult
🕰 dinner w friends followed by solitude with a book
⏰ WW2, 1950s, 1960s, present day
⌛️ I tag: @geodynamical @Velvetfur @JenlovesJT47 @GypsyKat @whatshesreadingnow

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readordierachel
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Thanks for the tag @batsy! 😃

1. Charlotte and Emily Bronte (I still haven't read Anne 😱). Margaret Atwood and N.K. Jemisin

2. I always want to be doing the first but often do the second because maintaining and prioritizing friendships is important and I'm trying to be better at it.

3. 19th century England 👑, or waaaaaay in the future ✨

4. You're tagged!

#trivialthursday @GarthRanzz

erzascarletbookgasm 🙌 number 1, haven‘t read Anne yet, liked the other two 6y
readordierachel @erzascarletbookgasm Hey, 2 out of 3 ain't bad 😆. I keep meaning to read Anne but so many books so little time... 6y
batsy Atwood! I forgot about her. And I need to read Jemisin! I also love your answer for 2...very true. 6y
readordierachel @batsy Can't wait to hear what you think of Jemisin when you get to her! #somanybooks 6y
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SilversReviews
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I copied off of @rubyslippersreads and combined two. :)

@GarthRanzz @RealLifeReading

Favorite Classic author is Daphne Du Maurier - Favorite Modern Author is Beatriz Williams
Night Alone with a Book
Favorite Era is the Roaring 20‘s

I live to eat.
I don‘t know any of the Harry Potter characters so will pass.
Noodles AND Pasta
Cone - love to eat the cone soaked with ice cream.
I bail but used to stick it out

THANKS...these were fun.

rubyslippersreads ❤️❤️❤️ Daphne du Maurier! Have you read 6y
SilversReviews @rubyslippersreads Ooooo....no...I need to look for it. THANKS. 6y
GarthRanzz Du Maurier‘s story of The Birds is so much better than Hitchcock‘s movie and I love Hitchcock. But I do need to read more of her novels. 6y
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RealLifeReading Used to stick it out too but have since decided that there are too many books out there! 6y
SilversReviews @GarthRanzz I “think” I have seen the Hitchcock version but not DuMaurier‘s. THANKS. 6y
SilversReviews @RealLifeReading Exactly...no sense reading something you don‘t want to when there are so many good books waiting. 6y
GarthRanzz I wish they had filmed Du Maurier‘s version but I don‘t think they ever did. Hitchcock totally changed it. If you can find her short story he took and changed its worth a read. 6y
SilversReviews @GarthRanzz Thanks....will look for it. 6y
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Librarybelle
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Thank you for the tag, @ErinGoBragh1011 !

1. Is it weird to say dozens of songs get stuck in my head a day? I suppose the latest would be “Stuck in the Middle With You.”
2. Oh no! I‘m not kidding - I‘m reading a dozen right now. This morning I read some more of “Unbridled Spirits,” which is a three at the moment.
3. Either Gone with the Wind or John Jakes‘ North & South at roughly 1000.
4. Wanna play? You‘re tagged!
#TrivialThursday

readinginthedark Ooh, nice ear-worm! 6y
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Booksnchill
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Thanks for the tag @merelybookish and the overall tag @GarthRanzz some thoughtful questions.
1. Purple Hibiscus, Adiche (a current read)
2. David Sedaris and specifically Holidays on Ice but really anything
3. That you can travel in your mind through books even if you cannot physically travel
4. @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled @JoScho

JoScho Thanks for the tag and give Whiskey kisses for me 😘 (edited) 6y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Thanks for the tag! On it!! And kisses to Whiskey from me tooooo! 6y
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ReadingRover
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Lol look at me catching up on all the weeks quizzes!!!
1. The Changeling - LaValle 2. Let‘s Pretend This Never Happened- Jenny Lawson 3. 😂 drawing a blank. I‘m just thinking about Gibbs‘s rules from NCIS 😂 4. @MiyakoBunny @TricksyTails

Alfoster Ahhh...love Gibbs too !!!😍 6y
Mommamanzi Gibbs is one of my man crushs lol 6y
ReadingRover @Alfoster @Mommamanzi So wise! 😂 when I got Dexter as a puppy I wanted to name him Lil‘ Mark Harmon but my boyfriend at the time wouldn‘t allow it 😕 6y
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Hrhadrienne
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How we bring in the New Year... book lover‘s edition.

rather_be_reading awesome!! 6y
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theladygreer
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Trivia gods are on my side today at the MSP airport Caribou! #booktour

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SuperPunkNinja
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Okay, we played Trivial Pursuit for book lovers last night and it was too freaking hard! I mean, yes, okay, I won but it wasn't easy. It was fun to make up answers though.

EvieBee I love the "yes okay I won". Haha! ?? 7y
SuperPunkNinja @EvieBee84 Well, you know, I try to be modest. 😁 7y
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