Hundred

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 to the “Now Reading” 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:

  1. Read for Buddhism class:
    • Buddhism in Practice by Donald Lopez
    • Buddhist Religions by Richard Robinson
    • The Foundations of Buddhism by Rupert Gethin
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. projects

3 Responses to “Hundred”


  • 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.

  • Jeffrey Rodriguez

    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).

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