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.

[materjibrail.livejournal.com]

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

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?

[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. :-)