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Bookslut has an innocuous little link about books not read that got me going. Here are some perennial and recent entries of mine.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity essays by Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited by Susannah Heschel, has been on my bookshelf for quite a few years now. I love The Sabbath and would like to [...]

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Ari L. Goldman. By the author of The Search for God at Harvard, one of my favorite books. This is a moving and tender memoir of the experience of saying kaddish for his father, of the experience of being alone and in community, of the experience of love and grief. I am a total fan [...]

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Deborah J. Ross and Marion Zimmer Bradley. This [posthumous] installment in MZB’s Darkover stories is actually better than some of MZB’s own Darkover books, solidly within her style and within the Darkover canon, and a quick, entertaining read. The story eventually overlaps withHawkmistress, which I didn’t catch on to until it was made obvious.

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Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | We are all nerds now is an interesting article on nerds/geeks and how we have changed in social stature since the 1970s.

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Thomas Cahill. A couple of gems from this very readable (and very casual, even bawdy) work:
Early in the banquet [the symposium], libations were poured to Dionysus, god of wine, and a dithyramb, a song-and-dance to the inebriating god, was beaten out. You may, if you like, label this prayer, but it was from our perspective [...]

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Twyla Tharp with Mark Reiter. I actually finished this on the 27th October, but I’m just getting around to transcribing some things from my journal. Here are some of the ideas and exercises I particularly liked from the book.
Have a ritual of beginning.
1. Where’s your pencil?
3. Face your fears.
4. Give me one week without…mirrors, clocks, [...]

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