What I’m reading these days

(The title might better be “What is on my night stand these days” but let’s not quibble over details.)

This idea is stolen from Paul Tuns over at Sobering Thoughts. I see your good idea, Paul, and I up you one, by providing a visual of my teetering reading pile.

Starting at the top: there’s Edith Wharton–the last novella I read was really very good–called “Old Maid”–please hold your very, very funny jokes on whether that has anything to do with yours truly; next, a Chesterton compilation; next, a travel New Testament; after that, just your standard, run-of-the-mill Moravian Liturgy, (no need to explain that because everyone has one, no?); then, the inspirational biography of William Wilberforce; Culture Shift by Mohler–alas, I’ve never cracked that one open but there it is; two books on pro-life feminism, thanks to Toronto Right to Life after I gave a talk; The Complete Novels of Jane Austen–who I am told, I should like. (Should being the operative word there. By the time I’ve figured who is who and why I care, well, I’m asleep faster than you can say “Moravian Liturgy”.) Care of the Soul was a quick purchase. I thought I was getting Thomas More when actually I was getting Thomas Moore, a not inconsequential difference of a couple hundred years. Finally, no time like the present to learn some Canadian history with Right Honourable Men by Michael Bliss.

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