Summer reading

[qatarperegrine]

This is of, at best, passing importance to others, but I'm recording it here for my own convenience, so I can keep track of all the books about which I've said, "Hey, I should read that while I'm in the States."

In the Carnegie Library:

• Karen Armstrong, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
• *Reza Aslan, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (checked out!)
• *John Dominic Crossan, Excavating Jesus
• Douglas Krueger, What is Atheism?
• *W.C. Smith, The Meaning and End of Religion
• Adin Steinsaltz, Essential Talmud
• *The Kuzari
• plus a bunch of random fiction, including Laurie King, and sheet music

(start with starred books, as they're not also available at the Humboldt County Library)

At Mum & Dad's:

• Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
• Dale Cannon, Six Ways of Being Religious
• Diana Eck, Darsan (at Mary's?)
• T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
• PCU, Progressive Christians Speak: A Different Voice on Faith and Politics
• Jim Wallis, God's Politics : Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
• Fay Weldon, Letters to Alice
• Laura Wildman, ed., Celebrating the Pagan Soul (from Amara)

Other:

• GBGM, The Bible: The Book that Bridges the Millennia (ordered)
• Paul Alan Laughlin, Getting Oriented: What Every Christian Should Know About Eastern Religions, But Probably Doesn't (ordered)
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (undoubtedly stealable from someone on the houseboat)
• Michael Sells, Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations (ordered)
• W.C. Smith, Believing (ordered)

Of course I invite suggestions about books I should add to the list.

Comments

[ravensword.livejournal.com]

If you're interested in an anthology of stories from the Pagan community, I could send you a copy of "Celebrating the Pagan Soul" since I have so many of them.

It provides an intriguing look into the variety of the community, as well as the varied ways we found our way spiritually.

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Sure! I'll e-mail you an address to send it to.

Re: neat!

[qatar.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an awesome book! I'll have to track down a copy too.

I'll let you know how Darsan and Getting Oriented go. The two other books I've read by those authors, Encountering God and Remedial Christianity respectively, are two of my favorite books.

[materjibrail.livejournal.com]

I have The Spiral Staircase and your Dad has the new Jim Wallis.I've just finished the life of Pi.

[rabbi-t.livejournal.com]

I have the PCU book, which you can borrow. I also have an HSU library card, so you can look up books they have.

Ummm

[shmuelisms.livejournal.com]

Seeing that "summer" is almost here, FSVO summer that is, I was wondering what the phrase "while I'm in the States" means. Are you going back to Qatar after the summer for another year?

Re: Ummm

[qatar.livejournal.com]

I'm coming back to Qatar for another semester. Originally we were only going to be here for a year, but we're having so much fun we extended our contracts!

So I'm going back to Pittsburgh for two weeks on business, and then we're spending three weeks in California with our families... and then back to Qatar in the middle of July! (UGH!)

[y-pestis.livejournal.com]

Yep, the Diana Eck is sitting here at work so I don't lose it at home. Erm. That revealed more than I wanted it to...

One book I saw recommended:
Reza Aslan, No god but God : The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

A series I have been starting to go through (this is just an example of one):
Laurie R. King, A Letter of Mary (Mary Russell Novels)
A series starring Mrs. Sherlock Holmes. In this version, after Watson stops hanging out with and writing about Holmes, Holmes gets married to Mary Russell. Interesting premise, interesting stories. I get the feeling Mary Russell is who Laurie R. King would like to be. :-)

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Reza Aslan is the person you sent out an article by before, right? That sounds good.

I read the first Mary Russell novel and *really* liked it, much to my surprise. I didn't realize there was a whole series!

[qatar.livejournal.com]

'Kay, I added those two.

(Also Dale Cannon's Six Ways of Being Religious, which I'm pretty sure Mum & Dad have. That has nothing to do with you; it just popped into my head.)