Now that you have had the opportunity to see all of the
movies I watched last year, here is a list of the books and periodicals that I
read. I have to admit I do not think I read as much as I should and this
upcoming year I am going to strive to read more. I have kept track of the
periodicals because they have value and should be counted for something.
Books
Fiction: Some of these books I have read because I am working
through Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon
and am trying to read the classics that he suggests. That would be War and Peace and Peer Gynt. Except for The
Story of the Eye (which I would not recommend) the rest are short stories
War and Peace –
Leo Tolstoy
Peer Gynt – Henrik
Isben
The Smile – Ray
Bradbury
The Conversion of the
Jews – Philip Roth
The Destructors –
Graham Greene
The Guest – Albert
Camus
La Grande Bretêche
– Honoré De Balzac
The Gift – John
Steinbeck
The Death of Ivan
Ilych – Leo Tolstoy
Story of the Eye –
Georges Bataille
Nonfiction: I have already commented on some of these books
elsewhere in my blog. These are fairly thick and academic but overall good
reads. That is except for Cinematic
Mythmaking. That was not a very good book. The rest I would recommend for
the philosopher/scholar.
A Radical Jew –
Daniel Boyarin
Theory of Religion
– Georges Bataille
The Sacred Canopy
– Peter Berger
The Meeting of East
and West – F.S.C. Northrop
Cinematic Mythmaking –
Irving Singer
Nonfiction – Practical Application: Activate is about starting small groups in a church and Feel the Fear… is more or less a
self-help book. It is important to read this books so I can keep my skills up.
Activate – Nelson
Searcy and Kerrick Thomas
Feel the Fear and Do
It Anyway – Susan Jeffers
Periodicals
This year I did not renew my Newsweek subscription, and I am not sorry for it. I also have a
couple of Atlantic Monthly issues I
have not yet finished as well as a number of issues of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion and The American Baptist Quarterly. I am not
in any rush to finish these issues, as you can see – for the most part the
information is remains relevant.
Newsweek November
7, 14, 2011
Christian Century
September 6, 2011 – May 16, 2012
19 Issues
Harper’s November
2011
Wired October 2011
– January 2012
4 Issues
Total – 42 Works, 5,925 pages
Like I said, I feel like I should have read more. This is a
new year and it is my hope that I will get through more books and periodicals.
Along with a good amount of writing that I am doing we shall see. And maybe I’ll
finish my basement along with everything else.
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