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Books Completed, March 2012

Out of Mormonism: A Woman’s True Story by Judy Robinson Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer Mormonism 101: Examining the Religion of the Latter-Day Saints by Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson 101 Things You Thought You … Continue reading

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Books I read, January 2012

The Tenor Wore Tapshoes by Mark Schweizer Concubine by Jill Knowles Trilogy by H.D. An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World’s Most Austere Monastic Order by Nancy Klein Maguire The … Continue reading

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Current Reading

A Year of Living Your Yoga by Judith Hansen Lasater Meditations from the Mat by Rolf Gates and Katrina Kenison A Complete Guide to the Buddhist Path by Khenchen Konchok Gyaltshen Prayers to the Great Creator by Julia Cameron The … Continue reading

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Things I learned from the history of Wicca

Yesterday I finished reading Modern Wicca: A History from Gerald Gardner to the Present by Michael Howard. I found it a bit rambly and non-linear, especially in the earlier chapters when Howard is reporting information given to him by people … Continue reading

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Things my readers should know about me

Things I am serious about: religion books music birds writing marriage Things I am not serious about but I love them: Star Trek in all its forms and variation. My favorite series are the cheesy campy Original and Deep Space … Continue reading

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Three books from my childhood

When I was about eight years old, my mother ordained that I should go to the little Episcopal church that was only a block away from our house. In former days I had gone to a Lutheran church with my … Continue reading

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Current round-up

Current Reading The Forge of Tubal Cain by Ann Finnin The Roebuck in the Thicket by Evan John Jones, Robert Cochrane, and Michael Howard The Passion of Mary Magdalene by Elizabeth Cunningham Kissing the Limitless by Thorn Coyle Current Viewing … Continue reading

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October’s reading

Books I read in October: 72. Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed by Kathy Marks 73. One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers by Gail Sher74. The … Continue reading

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The 2008 Booklist

I’ve been logging the books I finish for several years now.  This list does not reflect all the books I picked up, started, and put down, or the books I read parts of deliberately.  I felt like I read fewer … Continue reading

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Hoeing your own acre

Earlier this week I read a new novel by an author whom I’ve read with pleasure for about twenty years or so.  I haven’t read all of her books in that time, but I’ve read a representative sample, and I … Continue reading

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