Open Thread (II): What books are you Reading Right Now?

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43 comments on “Open Thread (II): What books are you Reading Right Now?

  1. Alice Linsley says:

    The Church and the Papacy by Trevor Gervase Jalland. Just finished The Great Divorce and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.

  2. Jeffersonian says:

    “What’s So Great About Christianity” by Dinesh D’Souza.

  3. Dan Crawford says:

    Indiana Gothic Brock Pope
    Charlatan Brock Pope
    Redeemed Heather King
    Gilead

  4. Dan Crawford says:

    Oops. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

  5. Daniel says:

    The Shack
    So You Don’t Want to Go To Church Anymore
    Questioning Evangelism

  6. APB says:

    “Air Castle of the South,” by Craig Havighurst. It is the fascinating history of the WSM radio station in Nashville, TN, and the radio broadcasting industry in general. Well written, genuinely interesting, and a superb break with dealing and thinking about the Current Unpleasantness.

  7. Old and grey-headed says:

    Theological:
    Eliot R. Wolfson: Language, Eros and Meaning
    Morwena Ludlow: Gregory of Nyssa: Ancient and (Post)Modern
    Rowan Williams: Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction
    Charles Taylor: A Secular Age
    John Zizioulas: Communion and Otherness
    Poetry:
    Rowan Williams: Headwaters
    Novels:
    David Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
    Mary Doria Russell: A Thread of Grace

  8. RedHatRob says:

    The Last Centurion by John Ringo (the next Clancy)
    The Marketing of Evil. by David Kupelian
    The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
    (won the Pulitzer Prize – nobody’s heard of it!)
    What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (this also won the Pulitzer. Howe contends this was the first communications revolution – the telegraph)
    The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
    something old, something new…
    -RedHatRob

  9. Patti says:

    Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw
    Wide Awake by Erwin McManus
    The Toxic Congregation by G. Lloyd Rediger
    Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright

  10. Sidney says:

    Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond.

    The Apocrypha.

    Understanding the Old Testament, by Bernhard Anderson (just completed)

  11. Irmgard says:

    Exclusion & Embrace by Miroslav Volf
    The Moral Vision of the New Testament by Richard B. Hays

  12. Hakkatan says:

    [i]The Reason for God[/i], by Tim Keller

  13. Rich Gabrielson says:

    [i]Planet Narnia[/i] by Michael Ward (Oxford, 2008) and [i]Perelandra[/i] by CS Lewis (inspired to reread the trilogy by Ward’s comments.)

  14. Invicta says:

    Just finished God’s Secretaries: the Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson.

  15. Helen says:

    What I’m REALLY reading?
    “When in Rome” by Ngaio Marsh
    “Elephants Can Remember” by Agatha Christie
    Any other classic mystery fans out there? Any favorite authors?

  16. NWOhio Anglican says:

    Bruce Catton’s 3-volume Centennial History of the Civil War.

  17. Jason Miller says:

    Emmanuel Levinas, [i]Totality and Infinity[/i]
    Mark Mittleberg, [i]Becoming a Contagious Church[/i]
    Stephen Neill, [i]Anglicanism[/i]

  18. Sick & Tired of Nuance says:

    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    Original Intent ~ Barton
    The Bad Popes ~ Chamberlin
    Tithing: Low-Realm, Obsolete & Defunct ~ Narramore

  19. Jim of Lapeer says:

    The Shack
    The 16th Michigan (A Civil War regimental history by Kim Crawford)

  20. WilliamS says:

    [i] Journey to Jesus, [/i] Robert Webber
    [i] Lost Boy No More: A True Story of Survival and Salvation, [/i] Abraham Nhial and DiAnn Mills
    [i] The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels, [/i] Jeff Rice
    [i] Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning, [/i] Judy Willis, M.D.
    [i] The City of God, [/i] St. Augustine
    [i] Varney the Vampyre, [/i] James Malcolm Rymer
    [i] Wagner the Wehr-Wolf, [/i] George W.M. Reynolds

    William Shontz

  21. WilliamS says:

    Also:
    [i] Orations, [/i] James Arminius

    William Shontz

  22. Don Armstrong says:

    No Other God, A Response to Open Theism, by John Frame

    The Innocence of God, by Udo Middlemann

  23. SQ says:

    Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willla Cather, a beautiful depiction of this Southwestern bishop’s bringing the people back to the faith.
    Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper

  24. Andrew717 says:

    The Commodore by Patrick O’Brian
    Anglo-Saxon England by Frank Stenton

  25. Tikvah says:

    Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”

  26. Laura R. says:

    The Domestication of Transcendence by William Placher
    In this House of Brede by Rumer Godden

  27. Lutheran-MS says:

    Concordia – The Lutheran Confessions
    The Fire and the Staff
    Heaven on Earth – The Gifts of Christ in the Divine Service

  28. Oriscus says:

    James P. Carse – The Religious Case Against Belief
    Jessie L. Weston – From Ritual to Romance
    Hans Urs von Balthasar – Truth is Symphonic
    René Guénon – The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
    Philip Brett – William Byrd and His Contemporaries

  29. TACit says:

    Restoring the Anglican Mind – Arthur Middleton

  30. Karen B. says:

    Just finished re-reading two of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy Sayers:
    [i]Strong Poison[/i]
    [i]Busman’s Honeymoon[/i]
    I do think Busman’s Honeymoon is my favorite of all the Lord Peter stories, just because I love how Sayers balances the challenge of the mystery with the challenge of writing about Lord Peter & Harriet’s romance… You know a book is great when sections keep you laughing with joy even after you’ve read it 4 or 5 times…!

    Am slowly wading through one of [url=http://www.sharonkaypenman.com/]Sharon K. Penman’s[/url] excellent British historical novels: [b][i]When Christ and His Saints Slept[/i][/b] (about the civil war between Stephen and Maude). I usually love Penman’s work, [her “Falls the Shadow” is one of the best novels I’ve ever read] but have been finding this one slow going for various reasons.

    For devotional reading: Amy Carmichael’s [i][b]Gold Cord[/b][/i] about the founding of the Donhavur Fellowship and the spiritual principles on which Carmichael’s ministry was based. EXCELLENT!!!!

    Just recently finished Jasper Fforde’s [i]Lost in a Good Book[/i] sequel to the hillarious [i]The Eyre Affair[/i]. I’d read a few of Fforde’s later entries in the Thursday Next series and didn’t enjoy them as much. But Lost in a Good Book is excellent and wacky! I’m planning to reread The Eyre Affair since it’s 4 or 5 years since I first read it, and may read [i]Jane Eyre[/i] again too, just because Lost in a Good Book whetted my appetite for that along with Dickens’ [i]Great Expectations[/i] (but I’m not sure we’ve got a copy of Dickens here in our team’s library…, that may have to wait until my next home leave.)

  31. Tiresias says:

    Psychology and the Bible By J. Harold Ellens & Wayne G. Rollins

  32. Ruth Ann says:

    The Ezekial Option, Joel Rosenberg

  33. Tory says:

    The World of Silence – Max Picard
    Earlier Poems – Franz Wright
    A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz

  34. Crabby in MD says:

    John Adams – David McCullough

  35. Randy Muller says:

    Marie Curie: A Life – Susan Quinn

  36. DonGander says:

    St Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine For Young Folks.

    Conducted by Mary Maples Dodge

    Volume XIV – 1886 – 1887

    Don

  37. Alice Linsley says:

    Karen B (#29), Those are 2 of my favorite Dorothy Sayers’ novels. Have you read Gaudy Night and Nine Tailors? They are her fiction masterpieces, I think.

  38. Townsend Waddill+ says:

    Novel: Just finished The Camel Club, by David Baldacci.
    Political: I’m actually enjoying Save the Males, by Kathleen Parker. It is a look into modern day feminism and how the feminist movement is subtly (or not so subtly) trying to render men, and fathers in particular, obsolete.
    Theological: Biblical studies are my focus right now, so I am reading the “Everyone” series by N.T. Wright, as well as the Scripture Union “Encounter” series for devotional time.

  39. Laura R. says:

    Alice Linsley and Karen B, I would name all four of those as the best Wimsey novels, and if I had to pick one favorite, it would be [i] Gaudy Night. [/i] I had jury duty recently, and took [i] Strong Poison [/i] along to read while waiting — good literary company, and an interesting parallel experience!

  40. MattJP says:

    “What’s So Great About America” by Dinesh D’Souza

  41. Jordan Hylden says:

    I have book-ADD, so right now, two at once: “The True and Only Heaven,” by Christopher Lasch, and “Whose Justice? Which Rationality?” by Alasdair MacIntyre. Can’t say enough about them both– they’re excellent.

  42. evan miller says:

    Just finished “A Time For Silence” by Patrick Leigh Fermor, and “Til We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred” by Phillip Bess.
    Currently reading “The Vision Glorious: Themes and Personalities of the Catholic Revival in Anglicanism” by Geoffrey Russell, and “Ruark Remembered: By the Man Who Knew Him Best” by Alan Ritchie.

  43. libraryjim says:

    “Wreck the Halls: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery.”
    by Sarah Graves (about 1/2 way)

    Working my way through:
    “Soul Survivor”
    by Philip Yancy (about 1/3 of the way)

    And a patron at the library gave me a book of his and his wife’s testimony just self-published. I’m sorry, I can’t remember the name of the book or author right now, but it’s on my bedside table as well. (five chapters in)

    Peace
    Jim Elliott <><