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January 24, 2007
Bibliophilia Exposed
Anyone who knows me at all, knows I like to read. Ditto David. We have boxes of books in storage. We have stacks of books around the house that don't fit into the limited shelving. We are members of Amazon Prime. (We get something from Amazon at least once a week. Remember, we live in the sticks.)
We also have, how do I put this... eclectic tastes. I, personally, have just realized in the last few weeks that my main goal in life is to know everything. Everything. Not because I want to delve into people's secrets, but because I am the Elephant's Child. To be honest, I'm not much for gossip, but that's not the kind of everything I want to know. What I want to know is how things work, why people are the way they are, and what they did about it in the past. In short, everything. And my reading choices reflect that. (Dave leans that way too, though he's a bit less wooo about it.)
With that in mind, here is the list of books that arrived today from Amazon. In the order they came out of the box:
The Bagavad Gita, translated by Eknath Easwaran
Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages by Abraham Cohen
You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
The Torah, Henry Holt, pub.
The Qur'an, translated by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
Bicycle Maintenance & Repair for Road and Mountain Bikes by Todd Downs
Dave actually ordered all of those (though I will read the Christopher Moore book to him and plan on diving into all of the books that aren't about bicycles). I am disappointed to discover that the two books I ordered were not in this box. I was so looking forward to reading them:
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence Expanded and Updated Second Edition - Inga Muscio
The Rule of Saint Benedict by Leonard J. Doyle and David W. Cotter O.S.B.
Posted by sally at January 24, 2007 02:53 PM
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