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Two years ago today I boarded a plane to fly back home from Hawaii, little suspecting it would be years before I ever got on another one. That is kind of mind boggling to think about.
Anyway, a very small amount of reading occurred this week. I'm not entirely sure what I was even doing instead.
What I Finished Reading This Week
Returning To Silence – Dainin Katagiri
The sections where Katagiri is talking about death worked really well for me, as did the final section in the last lecture, “Identity Action.” I’m glad I read this book and will probably revisit sections of it again. But as I’m unlikely to reread the whole thing in its entirety, into a Little Free Library it shall go.
What I Finished Reading At Some Point In The Past Seven Months
The Crone – Barbara Walker
The Crone was published in 1985 and it shows: much of what made Walker so viscerally angry when she wrote it has changed for the better, and that’s incredibly heartening. (For instance: most states did not properly acknowledge the existence of marital rape at the time of publication.) But Walker's two main subjects: human-driven ecological destruction and the erasure of women—whether as deities or clergy—from Western religion, are very much still unresolved. To address this lack, Walker looks to premodern religions—primarily in Europe and Mesopotamia—for inspiration. In her angriest moments, she paints with an overly broad brush: the violence of “patriarchal, masculine” religion can only be solved, she argues, by reintroducing a “nurturing, healing” feminine element. This strikes me as ironic in a book focused on mother-destroyer Goddesses, but Walker is far from the first, or only theologian (thealogian?) to use polemics to make their case, and her overall argument is still quite valid.
What I Am Currently Reading
The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien
I first read The Lord of the Rings in early April, but at some point in the decades since my annual reread shifted to the final weeks of December, and there it’s stayed ever since.
What I’m Reading Next
This week I picked up a copy of Made-Up by Daphne B., and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic.
What I Still Have Left To Review
The Last Graduate ・ 最遊記ＲＥＬＯＡＤ ＢＬＡＳＴ (1) ・ 最遊記ＲＥＬＯＡＤ ＢＬＡＳＴ (2) ・ 最遊記ＲＥＬＯＡＤ ＢＬＡＳＴ (3)
これで以上です。
Anyway, a very small amount of reading occurred this week. I'm not entirely sure what I was even doing instead.
What I Finished Reading This Week
Returning To Silence – Dainin Katagiri
The sections where Katagiri is talking about death worked really well for me, as did the final section in the last lecture, “Identity Action.” I’m glad I read this book and will probably revisit sections of it again. But as I’m unlikely to reread the whole thing in its entirety, into a Little Free Library it shall go.
What I Finished Reading At Some Point In The Past Seven Months
The Crone – Barbara Walker
The Crone was published in 1985 and it shows: much of what made Walker so viscerally angry when she wrote it has changed for the better, and that’s incredibly heartening. (For instance: most states did not properly acknowledge the existence of marital rape at the time of publication.) But Walker's two main subjects: human-driven ecological destruction and the erasure of women—whether as deities or clergy—from Western religion, are very much still unresolved. To address this lack, Walker looks to premodern religions—primarily in Europe and Mesopotamia—for inspiration. In her angriest moments, she paints with an overly broad brush: the violence of “patriarchal, masculine” religion can only be solved, she argues, by reintroducing a “nurturing, healing” feminine element. This strikes me as ironic in a book focused on mother-destroyer Goddesses, but Walker is far from the first, or only theologian (thealogian?) to use polemics to make their case, and her overall argument is still quite valid.
What I Am Currently Reading
The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien
I first read The Lord of the Rings in early April, but at some point in the decades since my annual reread shifted to the final weeks of December, and there it’s stayed ever since.
What I’m Reading Next
This week I picked up a copy of Made-Up by Daphne B., and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic.
What I Still Have Left To Review
The Last Graduate ・ 最遊記ＲＥＬＯＡＤ ＢＬＡＳＴ (1) ・ 最遊記ＲＥＬＯＡＤ ＢＬＡＳＴ (2) ・ 最遊記ＲＥＬＯＡＤ ＢＬＡＳＴ (3)
これで以上です。
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