As we’re well into March, my thoughts are turning to gardening. For me, gardening is a hobby. While my homegrown produce tastes better than anything I’d buy at the grocery store, I could, with much less sweat, simply buy a few more veggies. But where’s the fun in that?
I grew up in a family that gardened. Vegetables, flowers, fruit trees – my family grew it all.… Read the rest
Within the fiction and non-fiction categories, the books are listed in the order I finished them.
Fiction:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
Kamchatka – Marcelo Figueras
The Known World – Edward P. Jones
Red Team Blues – Cory Doctorow
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Undermajordomo Minor – Patrick DeWitt
Bagombo Snuffbox – Kurt Vonnegut
French Exit – Patrick DeWitt
Ablutions – Patrick DeWitt
The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
The Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien
The Two Towers – JRR Tolkien
The Return of the King – JRR Tolkien
The Enchantress of Florence – Salman Rushdie
The Color of Magic – Terry Pratchett
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – George RR Martin
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
Non-fiction:
Radical Roots – Gareth Brandt
Defining Love: A Philosophical, Scientific, and Theological Engagement – Thomas Jay Oord
Hearing and Knowing: Theological Reflections on Christianity in Africa – Mercy A.… Read the rest