habitually probing generalist

The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Princeton Classic Editions) Mircea Eliade, M. Eliade; Princeton University Press 2005 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This is the 5th book that I have read for My Two-Thirds Book Challenge. I stated at the end of my review of Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces that I hoped [...]

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English after the fall: from literature to textuality Robert Scholes; University of Iowa Press 2011 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder Disclaimer: I received an uncorrected proof copy of this book as part of the Library Thing Early Reviewer Program. I read this book from 23 Nov – 13 Dec 2011 and the bottom line is that I enjoyed [...]

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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life Karen Armstrong; Knopf 2010 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This is an important book. But it is a book which cannot simply be read to do any good. Caveat: I simply read it. Before I go on, let me recommend that you get the book from a library and read it. If [...]

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A Short History of Myth (Myths, The) Karen Armstrong; Canongate U.S. 2006 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder Sara also read this book recently.  I think that helped me as we had already discussed it a fair bit while she was reading it, and I had the benefit of her blog post about it. Go read Sara’s review, which [...]

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This is the 7th book in the 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge that I have finished. For another view, see my list at Open Library. I began this back on 22 March and got halfway before stopping back in April or so due to wedding and move planning/prep. I started again from the beginning on [...]

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Sunday, 18 Nov Norman, Richard. “Holy Communion.” Eurozine [First published in New Humanist 6/2007]. Discusses New Wave Atheism and how it is aggressively antagonistic to religion, which is the wrong way to proceed. I most certainly agree with this. When recent books by Dawkins, Hitchens and others began coming out I was excited at first. [...]

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[Disclaimer: I do not mean to offend anyone's personal views. My only aim here is to share a love of word play with others who may also appreciate it.] Earlier this week I did the copy cataloging to enter this book into our library. I found the juxtaposition of the the title and the subject [...]

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Sunday, 15 April 2007 The first 3 items are from my Bloglines backlog and are all also from the wonderful 3 Quarks Daily. Smith, Justin E. H. “Selected minor works: Where’s the philosophy?” 8 May 2006 This is absolutely brilliant and if I start quoting it I’ll just have to reproduce the whole thing. So [...]

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You won’t often find me linking to internet video because I don’t watch much of it. But if it were all this funny—luckily it’s not—I’d get no work done at all. This is some of the absolutely funniest stuff I’ve ever seen in my life. “Swear by mr.deity.” To my friends who don’t appreciate religious [...]

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I have been watching a couple movies during this break. Maybe I could be doing more productive things, but my mind also needs a break, time to do some leisurely processing in the background. So movies it is. I have mentioned some of them already, but would like to flesh them out with wsome mini-reviews. [...]

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