Tag Archives: week in review

Books this Update: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window; Lemony Snicket The Time Machine, H.G. Wells Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein The Beginner’s Guide to Zen Buddhism, Jean … Continue reading →

Books this Update: The Gospel According to the Son, Norman Mailer The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig You Don’t Have to Be Wrong For Me to Be Right, Brad Hirschfield … Continue reading →

Books this Update: The Age of American Unreason , Susan Jacoby Socrates Café, Christopher Phillips Why Evolution is True, Jerry A. Coyne A People’s History of the American Revolution, Ray Raphael This week began with Susan Jacoby’s excellent The Age … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Jesus, Deepak Chopra Bagombo Snuff Box, Kurt Vonnegut Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, Stephen Hawking Medical Firsts, Robert Adler I started the week off on a fictional note with … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Gump & Co, Winston Groom The Quiet Game, Greg Iles The Faith Club; Ranya Indiliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner Buddha, Karen Armstrong Asimov on Astronomy, Isaac Asimov I came upon Gump & Co accidentally: it happened … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Sarek, A,C, Crispin The Hobbit, J.R. Tolkien The Great Transformation, Karen Armstrong The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking I began this week with a little Star Trek literature. The … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Wisdom of the Ages, Wayne Dyer American Mania: When More Isn’t Enough; Peter Whybrow The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers Magic, Isaac Asimov Selected Essays, Michel de Montaigne Wisdom of the Ages, like Dyers’ … Continue reading →

Books this Update: The Robots of Dawn, Isaac Asimov The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman Familiar Poems, Annotated; Isaac Asimov Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown I will begin by saying that I still intend … Continue reading →

Books this Update Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality, John Shelby Spong Return of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov Spartacus, T.L. Mancour Last week was a short but busy week for me, as … Continue reading →

Books this Update: A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn The Great Journey: Peopling the United States, Brian Fagan Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, Wayne Dyer Wicca for Beginners, Thea Sabin I began last week by reading … Continue reading →