Currently Reading

I’ve just completed my first 30 days on the new job.  I’ve also just realized that I’ve barely posted since I started it!  It’s typical of the way I work that I need to focus almost exclusively on the new thing until I find my sea legs, so to speak, and I think now that I’m heading into my second month I’m ready to re-incorporate my previous activities—like this blog.  My husband and I are also house hunting, and if you’ve done that you know how time-consuming it can be.  So I’ve had a lot going on recently but hope that I’m back to blogging more regularly.  Thanks to all for your patience! 

Obviously I haven’t had a lot of time for pleasure reading, though I did “devour” Julia Child’s My Life in France (I read it over my lunch breaks, and what I would have given to have Julia spice up my tuna sandwiches!) and I’m now partway through Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice (my second foray into her fiction, after loving The Bell).  I’ve also been doing some reading for work (my job has to do with developing programs for a religious institution), including historian Diana Butler Bass’ Christianity for the Rest of Us and sociologist Christian Smith’s new release, Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults.

And for whatever reason, my BookMooch wishlist has been on more of a roll in the last few weeks, too, so to my TBR stack I’ve added: Rachael King’s The Sound of Butterflies, Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend From Far Away, Iris Murdoch’s The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and Karen Armstrong’s The Spiral Staircase.  Now, if only I could extend my lunch breaks!

What are you reading/buying/borrowing these days?

01. November 2009 by Mindy
Categories: Currently reading, Your turn | 6 comments

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