Holiday Reading
Before I went away there were some serious and worthy blogs by people about their planned holiday reading. What I haven't seen since, is any account of the match (or mismatch) between the plans and the achievement. So from me at least, it's confession time.
Here's what I planned to read:
Roy Jenkins, Gladstone
Fr. Rolfe, Hadrian VII
R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone
Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta
William Nicholson, The Wind Singer
Katharine Briggs, British Folk-Tales and Legends
plus two worthy work-related volumes:
mission-shaped church
Malcolm Torry (ed.), The Parish
And what I actually read was:
Tom Holland, Rubicon
Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Lynne Truss, Making the Cat Laugh
Malcolm Pryce, Last Tango in Aberystwyth
So, something factual, something profound, but mostly something funny, seems to be what I need to read on holiday. And definitely nothing theological.
Here's what I planned to read:
Roy Jenkins, Gladstone
Fr. Rolfe, Hadrian VII
R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone
Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta
William Nicholson, The Wind Singer
Katharine Briggs, British Folk-Tales and Legends
plus two worthy work-related volumes:
mission-shaped church
Malcolm Torry (ed.), The Parish
And what I actually read was:
Tom Holland, Rubicon
Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Lynne Truss, Making the Cat Laugh
Malcolm Pryce, Last Tango in Aberystwyth
So, something factual, something profound, but mostly something funny, seems to be what I need to read on holiday. And definitely nothing theological.
posted by Tony at 8/17/2004 06:37:00 pm
3 Comments:
Nice to have you back, Tony. :)
you didn't fink Poisonwood was feeological?
Ah, yes, but it was in disguise. Kind of like Jesus, "not a theologian, but God who told stories", as Madeleine L'Engle says.
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