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.