My friend Caryn Riswold recently asked her friends on Facebook what they were reading. So I thought I would steal Caryn’s idea. What book is currently on your desk, nightstand, or end-table?
I’ll start:
I am just finishing up Benjamin Carp’s excellent Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America.
How about you? Let us know in the comments section.
I'm working on Martha Jane Brazy's _American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York_
I'm reading three books right now (I graduated and need something to fill all of my time!)
1. Home by Julie Andrews
2. What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe and
3. The Revolt of the Elite- Christopher Lasch
Quite the variety!
Adina:
Those are great books. I have a blog post in the works on Lasch's *Revolt*. Stay tuned.
Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South – Jarod Roll
Right now: Mark Buchanan's The Rest of God It is about Sabbath, which seemed like good sabbatical reading. I've posted about it on my blog, though I'm a couple of posts behind my actual reading. I've also read some stats book recently.
Next up: Think No Evil by Beiler and Smucker about the Nickel Mines shooting.
– Sam Wilcock
Ann Taves, Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things
Morris Berman, Dark Ages America
Gracious Christianity by Sawatsky and Jacobsen- some how I never read this as a student!
I'm on World of Faith and Freedom by faith and religion IR guru Thomas Farr.
Next up, Hunter's To Change the World. BBB
I'm reading a couple books right now
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis
The Revolt of the Elite – Christopher Lasch (weird Adina 😉 )
And I'm about to dig into God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right by Daniel Williams
1. What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
2. Liberty and Power by Harry Watson
3. At Home by Bill Bryson
When “God of Liberty” arrives I'm going to read it. I ordered it for 50% off from the History Book Club.
I'm reading Phil Yancey's new book,
“What Good is God?” plus Tremper Longman's new book on science & the scriptures. I'm also reading Eugene Peterson's memoir, “The Pastor.” A friend gave me his advance copy since he did not think he'd get to read it. It is wonderful. And I just got Grisham's new book on my Kindle.
So many books, so much fun. 🙂
For a class, I'm teaching (and reading for the first time) Jill Lepore's New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in 18th-century Manhattan. It's pretty awesome, both in the history detective work and the writing, laden with puns and witty turns of speech.
At home, I am snatching little bits of time to read James Martin's The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life, which I find to be much more rich even than I expected. Aimed not only at Catholics, it offers both lots of historical and philosophical learning and lots of chances for spiritual reflection in practical ways.