Tag Archives: week in review

Books this Update: A Mist of Prophecies, Steven Saylor The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius, Mark Forstater For Everything a Season, Philip Gully Darwin Awards III, Wendy Northcutt The Cosmic Connection, Carl Sagan This update is a bit unusual in … Continue reading →

This Week at the Library: I Sold My Soul on eBay, Hement Mehta Last Seen in Masillia, Steven Saylor The Consolations of Philosophy, Alain de Botton Humanist Anthology, ed. Margaret Knight and James Herrick Love and Death, F. Forrester Church … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Fates Worse than Death, Kurt Vonnegut The Wisdom of Harry Potter, Edmund Kern Our Chosen Faith: an introduction to Unitarian Universalism, F. Forrester Church and John A. Buehrens Flim Flam!, Rames Randi I’m growing steadily more busy … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Death by Black Hole, Neil deGrass Tyson Murder on the Appian Way, Steven Saylor Waiter Rant, “The Waiter” Taming the Mind, Thubten Chodron Pebble in the Sky, Isaac Asimov Dark Force Rising, Timothy Zahn The Philosophy of … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Are We Rome?, Collen Murphy Alternative American Religions, Stephen J. Stein Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, Shane Claiborne Roma, Steven Saylor I began this week with Are We Rome? a political work comparing the United States … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Casebook of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama Who Needs God?, Harold Kushner The Japanese Experience, W.G. Beasley Catalina’s Riddle, Steven Saylor I started the week with an old favorite by returning … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Gold, Isaac Asimov Aristotle’s Children, Richard Rubenstein Footprints of God, Greg Iles Anthropology for Dummies, Cameron Smith Securing Democracy, ed. Gary Gregg III Brave New World, Aldous Huxley This was a well-rounded week, I think: history, politics, … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Lemony Snicket’s The Carniverous Carnival, The Grim Grotto, The Slippery Slope, The Penultimate Peril, and The End. Walden, Henry David Thoreau To Have or To Be?, Erich Fromm This week I finished Lemony Snicket’s series of unfortunate … Continue reading →

Books this Update: The Vile Village and The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket Syrup, Max(x) Barry Finding Your Religion, Scotty McLennan Reclaiming Virtue, Ray Bradshaw I started the week off by continuing in Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events. While I … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Lemony Snicket’s The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, and The Ersatz Elevator Company, Max Barry The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis Drawing Down the Moon, Margaret Adler Ricochet, Sandra Brown For future reference, I decided a few weeks … Continue reading →