Posted in Book Reviews, tagged books on November 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis (R)
75. The Day of a Buddhist Practitioner by Bokar Rinpoche (R)
76. The Squire’s Tale [...]
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Posted in Druidry, tagged booklists, books, lists on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 books this year than usual, but the count is close to those of previous years–the [...]
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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 enjoy her approach to high fantasy, her lyrical prose, her way of grounding her characters [...]
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Posted in Buddhism, tagged books, religion, reminiscences on February 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ever since I was a child, I’ve been interested in religion, my own and other people’s. One of my earliest memories involving books is of a volume of Greek myths for children; something about the illustrations disturbed me, and I wound up lying awake in bed, convinced that a vulture was going to come [...]
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