Books 2010

[tiffrobyn]

I will update this post throughout the year to track my book progress on my goal to reach 100 books read in 2010.

January:
1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Fiction.(Re-read) 1/2/2010
2. This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper. Fiction. 1/6/2010
3. Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson. Fiction. 1/7/2010
4. The Mercy Papers by Robin Romm. Non

Comments

[mathteacher]

:)

[teacup9]

How were the Mormon ones? What started this interest?

[tiffrobyn]

We started watching Big Love and I wanted to understand what was going on. Plus, I love reading about religion. Do you have any books about your religion that you would reccomend?

[teacup9]

That is kind of funny that Big Love inspired it. I don't read much about other religions, but Mormonism fascinates me.

I can't think of any non fiction right off the bat, but I like Tova Mirvis' The Outside World. It is just a novel about real people who happen to be religious Jews.

[tiffrobyn]

I'll put it on my library wish list.

I'm fascinated with Mormonism, too and the books were really good. I have a couple more to read. I also checked out a book I saw in Entretainment weekly called my Jesus year, about a rabbi's son who spends a year living in the bible belt of the south. I can't wait to read that!

[cortneeinc]

I love The Red Tent.

[tiffrobyn]

It was great. I love biblical fiction. Have you ever read the Anne rice Christ the lord books?

Do you have any religious non-fic you would recommend?

[cortneeinc]

I liked The Hole in the Gospel which I read this past month. It was interesting, it's about how you should not just go to church but do something, how you CAN easily do something and the church can easily do something, to help eradicate poverty. It's written towards a Christian audience. Besides The Love Dare, that's probably the only thing I've read - except for the Bible.

I would love to read a book on Mormons, did you read any good ones this month?

[tiffrobyn]

Secret Ceremonies by Deborah Laake was pretty good. I just started another one, Shattered Dreams, which is about the polygamist offshoot. So far, it's great.

[teacup9]

How did you like The Outside World? I realize I didn't really recommend a book about Judaism. I am interested in how it came across to someone not part of the community. Like did everything just look unnecessarily constrictive? Boring?

[tiffrobyn]

I really enjoyed the book. Since I'm so interested in Judaism, I've read a lot on it so I don't think anything really surprised me. I do like to find out the origins of certain practices and I'd love if you could recommend a book on that. You know what I did learn from the book? About bugs in produce. That is something that would never have even crossed my mind! I also asked you that question about leaving things on because I am so fascinated by how you use electricity but don't.

[teacup9]

My husband is like such a librarian I wish he could make a living just organizing books and yet I still get stumped with your book requests. I mean obviously the origins of everything are in the Torah (written) but every letter, every mark, the gematria (letters and thus words and thus phrases have numerical value), and the root of each word all have meaning. Eventually this, known as the oral Torah, was written down, but it has like 63 volumes in Aramaic....and Jews just aren't good at summerizing

[tiffrobyn]

No specific practices. I just like to learn about the origins of everything and I think that's why I'm fascinated with Mormonism as well. Most of my reading thus far has been on the internet. When my first husband and I were breaking up I had a lot of alone time that I spent reading.

[adamant_turtle]

Wow, I'm so jealous! I know, I know - you explained how it is you have time to fit so many in, and my life isn't that way (whenever I read these days, I really only have time in the evenings right before bed for like a half an hour or so, and lately, most nights, seems like I don't have that time either, because I haven't been home, because something else is going on, etc.)

But still, I reserve the right to be jealous... *pouts*

[tiffrobyn]

I honestly always carry a book with me. I'll read anytime I get a chance, even if it's just one or two pages.