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

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!)