Prosecution Now Rests

So, it appears that I haven't been reading in about two years. Not so, not so. Here's a list of things I remember reading:

• The End of the Long Summer by Dianne Dumanoski
• The Freedom Agenda: Why America must spread democracy [Just not the way George Bush did] by James Traub
• Ordinary Injustice - How America holds court by Amy Bach
• Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler

The first two books were prizes from volunteering during WAMU's fundraiser. The last two the books started my short-term interest in the America's justice system.

The Brits are reading!

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

Funny book about punctuation.

Oh, Lord!

This past fall and winter was used to get ready for a Sunday school class I was writing:

• Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander
• The New Creation: John Wesley's Theology Today by Theodore Runyon
• United Methodist Questions, United Methodist Answers by F. Belton Joyner Jr.
• United Methodist Beliefs: A Brief Introduction by William H. Willimon

You may have heard Auslander on This American Life. His stories are hilarious. I'm on the queue for his Beware of God.

The other three books are ones that had been recommended to me in regards to the United Methodist Church and its Wesleyan theology.

Summer's Over

It's been a while, but I have been reading some.

The Portable Chekhov edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Poems by Boris Pasternak
The Cornel West Reader by Cornel West
Kiss or Kill - Confessions of a Serial Climber by Mark Twight

I started reading Chekhov after reading Cornel West. This was one of those occasions where following the stream was a good idea.

I recommend to anyone who's never read Pasternak to start reading Pasternak, especially Dr. Zhavigo. His collection of poems were insightful.

I have to be honest, I didn't read all of the Cornel West's reader. I got through the interesting stuff. It gave me a better insight on my brother's work.

Kiss or Kill. I checked this out after reading about Twight in Men's Health (he was the guy who trained the cast of 300) and the Gym Jones website. If you're looking for something different, read this book.

Which Way?

The Way of Chuang Tzu translated by Thomas Merton

Romantic and Revolutionary

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara

Get Aout!

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Soul of Politics by Jim Wallis

Lowcountry Readin'!

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Brendt
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis