Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. . . . You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Angela Carter (1940 - 1992)
I’ve tried to compile a list of all the books I’ve read in the last three years. In trying to change my perspective on life, I devoured books. Anything that might help shape, form, inspire, challenge. From fiction, to sociology, to trying to understand who Jesus really is…here’s the list, in my own, not so scientific system of organization. As I look through it, there is definitely a thread of trying to grasp a deeper, broader, less white middle class conservative Republican way of understanding God, that runs through this list. There is much more to be read and much more to learn.ÂÂ
The World is Flat
Tuesday’s With Morrie
The Wedding
The Alchemist
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop - A History of the Hip Hop Nation
Social Problems: A Critical Approach
The Barbarian Way
Velvet Elvis
Making Room for Life
Till We Have Faces
Here’s To Hindsight
Let Your Life Speak
The Glittering Image
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance
In Search of God Knows What
The Razor’s Edge
Total Money Makeover
Bowling Alone
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Good to Great
Savage Inequalities
Divine Conspiracy
Moneyball
The Hobbit
Three Nights in August
The Slaughterhouse Five
Freakonomics
Excavating Jesus
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May 29, 2007 at 10:16 pm
jordan
i am into Don Miller, saw him speak in warsaw last year. my favorite (and the bandwagon consensus) is ‘Blue Like Jazz.’ his latest book on Fatherhood, etc. is quite good also. a poignant reflection that leads to thinking about ‘the Father.’ i also quite enjoyed Velvet Elvis, actually i would say it changed my life, for the better of course. i too am striving to see the world and God beyond the proximate meaning and enviornment i was brought up in, but this is never without some difficulty, as i’m sure you know. a good list you’ve compiled. diverse. i am in the middle of Generous Orthodoxy, by McLaren right now. progressive and eye-opening in many ways, perhaps astray in a few others. afew few from your list are on mine as well. i have also recently gotten into some jewish spirituality (reccomended by Rob Bell) and i love it. it is this synthesis of poetry and reason that penetrates the soul and moves me toward action. i could go on forever if i dont stop myslef…………, later-