This teaching semester has been
keeping
me
so
busy that I have not kept up with
my monthly reading logs. I’ve had enough time to read, but I haven’t found
the time to keep you, my reader, up with what I’ve been reading. I’ll attempt
to remedy this now, by giving a very brisk run-down of my reading over the last
three months.
This last three months has been dominated by fiction reading, so let me start
with the little pile of non-fiction that I enjoyed. First, for the philosophy,
I enjoyed Todd May’s Friendship in an
age of
Economics,
a nice little work in moral/social psychology on the value of friendship and
its usefulness as giving us insight into value that does not register in our
econometric age. For theology, I enjoyed one longer book, Women and the
Gender of
God,
by Amy Peeler, and two very slim books, Why Did
Jesus Have to
Die?,
by Jane Williams and
Passions of the
Soul, by
Jane’s husband, Rowan Williams.
The little Buddhist text on mindul living, The Practice of Not
Thinking,
by Ryunosuke Koike was a fun read, too. The final non-fiction book from the
last three months was very different to all of the others: Daniel P.
Friedman and David Thrane
Christiansen’s fun little dialogue The Little
Typer was a sweet little introduction to
dependent type theory, which I’ve been thinking
about lately, and I plan to
think about this some more in the coming year.
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