7.05.2007

Underway and Pending

Aha! I'm on a roll. Two posts in one day!
As a true bibliophile, I never read just one book at a time. Usually I move between 4 or 5. Again pointing to the lushness of life, there are 9 I'm juggling at present:

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Future of Man, Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
God and Elizabeth Bishop: Meditations on Religion and Poetry, Cheryl Walker
Haiku: This Other World, Richard Wright
History in English Words, Owen Barfield
She Who Changes: Re-Imaging the Divine in the World, Carol P. Christ
Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century (Vol. 1), Fernand Braudel
What I Learned from God While Quilting, Ruth McHaney Danner & Cristine Bolley
Writing the Trail: Five Women's Frontier Narratives, Deborah Lawrence

with another 9 awaiting me:

Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct, P. M. Forni
The Craft of Research, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams
Identity Crisis: How Identification is Overused and Misunderstood, Jim Harper
Libertarianism: A Primer, David Boaz
On The Wealth of Nations, P. J. O'Rourke
The Qur'an, translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television, Katie Mills
Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers, Elizabeth Edwards
Wild Ducks Flying Backward: The Short Writings of Tom Robbins, Tom Robbins

In an inconstant state of reading

The fact that it's been nearly a year since my last post says much! Life has been SO full. Still ...
Here's a list of some of the the titles I've read or listened to in the last year. Of course they're in alphabetical order--I am a librarian, after all.
As I'm not averse to a rollicking good discussion, feel free to share.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott
Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer, Maya Angelou
Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
Darwin's Children, Greg Bear
Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear
Dubliners, James Joyce
Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, Jonathan Safran Foer
Jazz, Toni Morrison
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Jonathan Culler
The Margarets: A Novel, Sheri S. Tepper
The Mitford Years (working my way through the series), Jan Karon
Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Until I Find You, John Irving
A Widow for a Year, John Irving
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems, 1978-1981, Adrienne Rich

Oh, oh ... almost forgot two other fabulous listens:

Baudolino, Umberto Eco
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Umberto Eco