Category Archives: reading

Books and movies

Posted on August 31, 2010 by jlh

I’m reading The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). It’s a fascinating first person account of how a British soldier became involved in gaining the freedom of the Arabs from the Ottoman Turks. I discovered that … Continue reading →

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Borg: Putting Away Childish Things

Posted on August 3, 2010 by jlh

Marcus Borg—an Oregon professor of religion, author of numerous books on Christianity, notably Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, and more recently Jesus, a summing up of 20 years of scholarship on Jesus—wrote a novel called Putting Away Childish … Continue reading →

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Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist

Posted on July 24, 2010 by jlh

Upon recommendation I read The Alchemist by best-selling Brazilian author Paulo Coelho. A fable/parable novel, it has some great insights into why we don’t pursue our dreams. What bugs me about the book is its New Age-y themes. Although Christ appears … Continue reading →

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KINDLE FOR PC

Posted on July 20, 2010 by jlh

Amazon’s digital reader Kindle is available FREE for PC and is amazing. I’m enjoying it very much. In a few years a physical book, like candles for light, will be an art object. I never would’ve believed it.

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Briefly

Posted on April 30, 2010 by jlh

I’m finding it hard to write these days, I don’t know why. But I continue to read. I worked as a chaplain in a Nursing Home for 4 years, and resolved to read as many of the great books as … Continue reading →

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Martin Luther King Jr. and Boris Pasternak

Posted on April 15, 2010 by jlh

Completed the Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. which was disappointing in the sense that it was an in-house production, from which all the human drama of King’s personal life had been stripped away. There were Valentine greetings to Mrs. … Continue reading →

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Where your security lies

Posted on March 14, 2010 by jlh

I’m having trouble focusing on things today. My friend’s death has stirred up a lot of difficult stuff. I’m reading Francis of Assisi by Leonardo Boff. It’s a heady book. But I’m finding it worth the wade. for example: How, … Continue reading →

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Hollow cake

Posted on November 12, 2009 by jlh

I tried my baking skills the other day. I had an orange-cranberry muffin mix, which called for an added cup of water. Flush with the success of earlier efforts, I added a protein booster whey powder, a couple eggs, and two … Continue reading →

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Beauty and the Tyrant

Posted on November 2, 2009 by jlh

Why bother with Arenas? A comment follows this quotation. Quoting Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls (1993): “At the [Cuban] National Library in 1969 Lezama [Lima] gave a reading of perhaps one of the most extraordinary essays of Cuban literature under … Continue reading →

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In Spirit and Truth

Posted on October 29, 2009 by jlh

I always get into what I’m reading. I’ve been wanting some biography, and happened on Before Night Falls through a book list. It’s a memoir of Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, freedom fighter and gay activist. Not the kind of book you’d … Continue reading →

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