The desert island list
Hubby and I became homeowners yesterday, and we move Monday. Much of what we own is in boxes. But there are a few handfuls of books I can’t bear to put away yet. As if I might be called to preach this Sunday or lead a retreat . . .
Add in the fact that I am working my way through the third season of Battlestar Galactica, (which if you don’t know) the story of the human race — on other planets — fleeing a genocidal apocalypse with hope of finding Earth. So a continuing plot device is considering what was brought along — some quite improbable things — and what might be found along the way.
So what books — and I’m skewing to the theological — would you pack last and take first?
18 September 2008 at 10:01 am
Hey, congratulations on homeownership!
At some point fairly recently, I got rid of just about all theological texts, and kept only fiction or nonfiction by people I know and like. I felt a lot lighter. I still have a bible.
18 September 2008 at 11:51 am
A Fracken homeowner eh? Well watch out for the toasters.
congrats
18 September 2008 at 9:08 pm
Hearty congratulations on the home ownership!
21 September 2008 at 6:26 am
You did check with Freddy and Fannie first? Yes?
Best of luck and blessings on the new home.
Bring poetry and a novel first. Thin the library.
22 September 2008 at 10:35 am
Oh, Scott, that’s wonderful news! Huge congratulations to both of you! And while I know this is primarily a theological blog, I’d love to see a brief detour post in which you share your impressions on BSG.
23 September 2008 at 12:56 am
Scott,
Congrats on the new house!! I actually have my desert island list, because I packed a bag of books to bring with me to California, separate from my boxes (that are still packed - I’m am place-less, still.)
A book by Pema Chodron
A book of poems by Mary Oliver
Thomas Keaton’s book on Centering Prayer
A Bible
A couple of science fiction novels
My Benedictine prayer book
A couple of technology related nonfiction books
I think it’s a nice variety.
24 September 2008 at 12:25 pm
Dear Scott,
Congratulations on the new home!
A few books:-
Bible.
The beliefs of a Unitarian by Alfred Hall.
The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen.
Tennyson’s complete poems.
Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ
Edward Conze’s Buddhism, its essence and development.
An encyclopaedia of railways.
25 September 2008 at 4:11 pm
I’ve often wondered what books I should take to a desert island…. and of course which books should I leave on that island …
“47 Years in the Universalist Ministry” by D. B. Clayton; this is his biography, history of southern Universalism and a debate book.
“Hymns of the Spirit - with Services” (Red Hymnal) this is the 1937 hymnal. It’s argued that most hymnals are at least ten years out of date - which means this one is from the 1920s or earlier - good - contains the traditional and the modern
One of those universalist proof books, one of Hanson’s or one of Manford’s
(I note on a shelf I have Manford’s “150 reasons to believe in the final salvation of all mankind”) - Of course keeping both Hanson and Manford together will make them mumble (they feuded).
Probably would take the five volume set of the “Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman” - short stories are great to pick up quickly - if i had to pick one, I’d take my “Who Fears the Devil” Arkham House edition. It being a collectors item is better to look at than read however….so I’d pick one volume at random.
And I’d last pack whatever I’m reading now (”Nathaniel Greene” )