Bearing the cost

I wish she would grow up. She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age. Her whole idea is to race on to the silliest time of one's life as quick as she can and then stop there as long as she can. - Lewis, "The Last Battle" - about Susan and how silly she is being, saying that Narnia is for children

Thursday, November 10, 2005

My book list - September and October

Overcoming Bulimia - Cynthia Rowland: story of a bulimic woman and her struggles with bulimia in the pre-aware-of-this-disorder years (late 80s)
Psychology through the eyes of faith - Myers and Jeeves: intro to psych, great entries on mind/brain and nature/nurture
Emma - Jane Austen: watched the movie, too
Gender - Frederica Mathewes-Green: just as good as everyone said it would be, even better!
Twenty Someone - Doug Serven: because some things need to be read more than once
C.S. Lewis: Screwtape Letters, the entire Narnia Chronicles (excepting Dawn Treader), Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, a collection of short stories
False Intimacy - Henry Schaumberg: sex, dating, pornography, addictions
1776 - David McCullough: George Washington is my hero!
About a dozen Agatha Christie's: the library sale was good this year

Currently reading:
John Adams by David McCullough: John Adams is my hero!
Getting the Message - Doriani
Stalin - Edvard Radzinsky
The Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom

Up next:
Stepping Heavenward - Elizabeth Prentiss
Bondage of the Will - Martin Luther
Enduring Community - Newsom and Habig
The Great Divorce or Mere Christianity - Lewis
Anti-memoires - Andre Malraux
Candide - Voltaire

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