Sunday, February 15, 2009

Sunday Salon

I've had an interesting week of reading.

I'm not finished with my book-club book (The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, by Peter Gomes) but I'm moving along and plan to spend more time with it today. He's a liberal Protestant theologian from Harvard and I find myself nodding along with him quite a bit. Alongside him I'm reading Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik's And From There You Shall Seek, and I have to say it was interesting reading two very different Boston preachers- a liberal Protestant from Harvard and an Orthodox rabbi who founded a well-known day school- alongside each other. It's like having my own personal comparative-religion course.

I also got a good start reading Someone to Run With by David Grossman, an Israeli novel about an Arab boy and a Jewish girl who I believe will strike up some sort of relationship based on their mutual love of a dog. I'm leading a book club discussion group on the book in March and enjoying it quite a bit. I also think it will make great discussion material.

8 comments:

Ana S. said...

The David Grossman novel sounds very interesting. I really enjoyed his book Lion's Honey, about the myth of Samson.

Alyce said...

I will be interested to hear more about Someone to Run With.

Have fun with your pseudo comp. religion! :)

Shana said...

I hope you got a lot of reading done today, Marie. I haven't read my book club book yet either. Book club is Thursday night, so I need to get cracking on it.

Anonymous said...

This past Wednesday I went to my bookclub meeting without having finished reading the book. Gasp! It was the first time in years that that has happened. I blame the library. ;)

The Bookworm said...

Enjoy your reading, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus sounds interesting as does Someone to Run With. Its always fun to read books that make for good discussions.
Have a good week :)
http://thebookworm07.blogspot.com/

wisteria said...

Someone to Run has me quite curious. Sounds like something I would want to read. Thanks for sharing. Hope you have a great week.

Meytal Radzinski said...

"Someone to Run With" is a great book. And it's not all about the dog. I know the English translation is a little awkward, but it's a well written novel and the story is just great. To all vaguely interested readers: read it. It's good. And to Boston Bibliophile, enjoy!

Marie Cloutier said...

Anonymous Child- I loved it! :-)