Wow, it has already been an entire year since i started my Master’s program, and yet it seems like i’ve learned relatively little, yet i’ve learned many things. To keep with this trend, i am attempting to have read 100 books for this calendar year (January through December). i like to add the books that i’m reading to the “Now Reading” list on the left side of the page. Somewhere in that list is a link to my “library” which has all the books that i’ve read since i began keeping track (which was in January). As of today, there are a total of 88 books in there, which means i need 12 more for my target of 100. If you know of a good book (especially if it deals with theology/philosophy), tell me about it so that i can add it to my list. i don’t count reference books (so Wrox’s Web Standards is out, even though i have been using it here and there).
Also, if you notice, i’ve added a few more books today for my classes. Because of that, i have a new list for this quarter:
- Read for Buddhism class:
- Buddhism in Practice by Donald Lopez
- Buddhist Religions by Richard Robinson
- The Foundations of Buddhism by Rupert Gethin
- Read for Study of Religion class:
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim
- The Sacred and Profane by Mircea Eliade
- Globalized Islamby Olivier Roy
- Relating Religion by Jonathan Smith
- A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
- Read for Thesis
- The End of Modernity by Gianni Vattimo
- The Adventure of Difference by Vattimo
- Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition by James K.A. Smith
- Introducing Radical Orthodoxy by James K.A. Smith
- Religion by Vattimo and Jacques Derrida
- Weak Thoughts by Vattimo
- Philosophy and Theology by John Caputo
- The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek
- Dogmatics in Outline by Karl Barth
- How (Not) to Speak of God by Peter Rollins
- Read for “fun”
- Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Hegel
- Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? by James K.A. Smith
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treadle by C.S. Lewis
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysicsby Kant
- De Anima by Aristotle
- Categories by Aristotle
- Physics by Aristotle
- Metaphysics by Aristotle
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Of Grammatology by Derrida
- Exclusion and Embrace by Miroslav Volf
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
- Coding projects
- Update impleri.net
- New face for impleri.net
- Update Zeal for Truth (both forums and frontend)
- New face for ZfT
- Advanced Messages for Categories Hierarchy
- Advanced Logging for CH
- Cash for CH
- Reporting for CH
- Drafts for CH
The Poisonwood Bible and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Treader, not Treadle–that would be a completely different book
) are the only books on your list that I’ve read. One book that you might find interesting–my husband talks about it all the time–is The World is Flat.
What number are you at right now, and how many times are you going to count Deleuze (considering you’ve read the same book multiple times)?
i believe my list is at 95. But, the system does not allow me to count a book twice. So, even if i do read something twice, it counts only once. Also, the book i’m reading by Deleuze right now (A Thousand Plateaus) is different from the one i read earlier this year (The Logic of Sense).