Books 25-31

[aeditimi]

Getting warmer in my 50-book quest. New reads are marked with a dash and rated out of five stars.

-25. Leaving Church, by Barbara Brown Taylor. A tale of heartbreak and burnout, where respected pastor, theologian, and scholar Brown Taylor tells of her experience in ministry and decision to leave. I found that the older generation of clergy women

Comments

[finding_helena]

side note: men shouldn't really write about things they are unable to experience, like the onset of menses. clearly he had *no* idea

*snicker*.

That reminds me of the scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin where he's trying to pretend he has some experience and describes the feel of women's breasts as "like bags of sand". Yeah.

[anonymous]

See, I told you that Son of a Witch was better. I'm glad you agree. :o)

I also *highly* recommend Jaqueline Carey's Kusheline trilogies. Brilliant stuff, and the fantasial theology (post-Christian, for a spin) will probably be very enjoyable for you, if not precisely "new" or "previously unconsidered."

L

Where do you find the time?

[pastorhezzy]

My question for you is, where do you find the time to read books? I have a book that I got from the library 3 weeks ago that I have barely gotten in 150 pages of. Between working, doing housework, being a mother and working (kind of) hard to lose my last 10 lbs, I find that I have no time for anything that resembles being about me!

Re: Where do you find the time?

[aeditimi]

Answer 1: I don't find time. My house is a mess, my job is never done, and my kid has watched "Finding Nemo" way too many times for me to qualify as a healthy parent.

Answer 2: I wake up at 5:30, and work out on the elyptical machine for about 30 minutes, with the book propped up in front of me, then hurry to take a quick shower before LittleOne wakes up at 6:30 or 7.

Answer 3: I have a bigger introvert streak than you do, I bet. The more stressed I get, the more I need to curl up with a book for sanity's sake. While my conscious brain reads text, my subconscious processes in the relative quiet.

50 books in a year

[ckofke]

Wow - I'll have to check the list I keep. Many of my summer books are kids books and they're a lot quicker to get through. I have hardly read anything since school started. But stumbled upon a used book sale at the Belchertown library today. Since it was the last day, every book was 50 cents. I got about 20 - many for my sixth graders, but about 5 for me. Yahoo!