Kyle Weir Book Club

12/10/2019

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03/01/2016

I'm thrilled to announce my newest book Intimacy, Identity, and Ice Cream is now available for pre-order in eBook form. It's coming out on March 8 and is $3.99. The pre-order is available through Amazon for Kindle users, but iBooks and Nook will also be carrying it.

http://www.amazon.com/Intimacy-Identity-Ice-Cream-Teaching-ebook/dp/B01C7ROQ8U

Teach children and youth the eternal truths about sexual intimacy in a world of shifting values and ideas. With expert advice and anecdotal examples from a licensed marriage and family therapist, learn how to teach the importance of the proper time for intimacy using the unique analogy of ice cre...

10/23/2014

Hi Friends,

My article about teens, identity development, and intimacy is out now online with LDS Living (a magazine that's popular in the Mormon community). The link is listed below. If you like it, please send a comment to the editor of the magazine ([email protected]).

Deseret Book is planning to track the feedback to determine whether the book (from which this article is an excerpt) to determine whether or not there is a sufficient market to publish my book.

Thanks for your support!
--Kyle

http://ldsliving.com/story/77145-helping-teens-understand-how-chastity-leads-to-greater-happiness-as-an-adult

Raising teens to become adults with a strong personal identity and a healthy view of physical intimacy goes hand in hand. Here is how identity and intimacy are related and how you can help your teen understand how living the law of chastity leads to greater happiness.

09/27/2014

Fiction: Dan Brown's Inferno

I was seriously disappointed in this book. Without spoiling it, the basic premise is that there this really brilliant, really crazy rich guy who is so worried about over- population that he prepares a "plague" to reduce the human population. The guy is a whacko that it obsessed with Dante's The Divine Comedy. So Robert Langdon is brought in to follow the clues in the art and literature to try to stop the release of the plague. While I enjoyed Brown's first three books, he tries several different approaches in this book such as Langdon starting the novel with amnesia, a bald female accomplice, and a bizarre recurring nightmare. But in the end (spoiler alert), Dan Brown basically makes the argument that the crazy whacko guy is right about trying to stop overpopulation.

Guess what? Overpopulation is one of the biggest hoaxes perpetuated on western civilization.

05/29/2014

Here's another amazing library I'd love to visit some day - Gladstone's Library in England.

05/25/2014

Is it just me, or is there something incredibly appealing about beautiful libraries? The cover photo for this page is the "Old Library" at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Feel free to comment and post a picture of your favorite famous library and tell us why.

05/02/2014

Fiction Book: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. Another great model full of twists and turns. Despite it being a little unbelievable at parts (spoiler warning: at one point a character survived falling hundreds of feet out of a helicopter using only a windshield sun deflector as a parachute), I found that I couldn't wait to see what happened next. At times, very dark, but definitely a riveting novel. Two thumbs way up (I only have two thumbs or I'd give it more).

04/21/2014

Fiction Book: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. I know. I know. I'm probably one of the last ones to read this book (or at least see the movie - which I hadn't done yet). I've been avoiding all Dan Brown books on the basis of not liking authors who trash religious groups (especially Christian denominations). But I had a free audio book just sitting there in the Audible library I share with my brother-in-law. I figured if my Catholic brother-in-law (Chris Brown) didn't mind, who am I to misjudge a book? Bottom line: I really liked it. I know the concept of a married Jesus is very controversial, but consider that an adult Jewish Rabbi living in the Meridian of Time who is unmarried would be even more controversial and suddenly the idea of a married Jesus become more probable. Regardless, Dan Brown put together a great novel with twists and turns, a dash of medieval mystery turned modern whodunit. I will be reading more Dan Brown. What did you think of the book?

04/19/2014

History Book: Our First Revolution by Michael Barone. The book is about the "Glorious Revolution" in England in 1687-88 that ousted the Catholic King James II in favor of William and Mary (Protestants). The book outlines the history of the English monarchy from the reign of Charles II (Anglican) and then his brother James' reign. It outlines the tremendous influence that rights obtained by Englishman through the Glorious Revolution had on the American Founding Fathers. Rights such as the right to bear arms, judicial tenure, religious toleration, freedom from coerced quartering of troops, and freedom from cruel & unusual punishment all stemmed from this English revolution. I really liked this book. My only criticism is that the last chapter is where he really outlines the linkages to the American experience. I would have liked more of that.

04/05/2014

Sad stats about how many people miss out on the joy if books, but notice the bottom: reading is an important way for children to understand the emotions of others.
Reading-->Empathy

04/04/2014

J.R.R. Tolkien: Last December (as you all know) the latest version of the Hobbit movie series was released. Given that there was so much difference between what I saw and what I remembered from reading it back in junior high, I listened to the audio book of the Hobbit. I followed that up with the first two books of The Lord of the Rings series (Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers). I'm going to finish the series and listen to The Return of the King next month. Tolkien is even better the read as an adult! While I admit that I was a Dungeons and Dragons nerd in junior high and so I loved Tolkien then, I have to say life's experience has given me he capacity to see Tolkien's messages about life, good and evil, friendship, valor, and wholesome pleasure in a totally new light. As exciting as swords and killing orcs, etc. is to a boy, it is a vastly more rich, deep literary work than I could have comprehended in my youth. Tolkien is worth reading (or re-reading) as an adult.

04/04/2014

Okay, I haven't posted in a long while, but I'm repenting of that now. I was released as bishop of the Yosemite ward after serving five wonderful years, so maybe now I can resurrect this Book club. Let me simply start by asking everyone out there what's the top three books you've read recently?