One of the joys of being at the beach is the reading that I can enjoy. Two years ago I brought 32 books to the beach, much to Jami's amusement. Last year, since I was flying and needed weight and space to be controlled, I took only 25 books. This year we're driving from Durham and, although space considerations don't dominate as they did last year, the choice of reading is critical.Karl Barth- CD 4.1 or 4.2 - I'll probably take the latter.
NT Greek and the Metzger textual commentary and Zerwick dnd Grosevnor's grammatical analysis.
Hegel - Phenomenology of the mind.
Levinas - Totality and Infinity.
Whitman - Leaves of Grass.
John Ashberry - Your name here or Can you hear bird.
Donald Hall - selected poems.
Zizek - Parallax or Ticklish Subject.
Kenneth Burke - Attitudes toward history or Permanence and change.
Douglas Hall - Thinking the faith.
Oxford History of Art - 1851-1929 by Richard Brettell.
Keck's Romans commentary. Maybe the final volume of the anchor Exodus commentary?
NRSV
Freud - Ego and the Id, Civilization and its discontents, on art
Satre - Situations
Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of perception
Barbara Kingsolver - Pigs in heaven.
Wm Placher - Narrative of a vulnerable God.
AR Ammons - Glare.
Shakespeare's Tempest.
Milton (maybe?)
Do I want to take the Derrida reader or perhaps Caputo's Prayers of Jaques Derrida?
Is there more fiction I could bring?
Milosz's Treatise on Poetry?
Amos Wilder's Theopoetic?
Perhaps some Roth - Sabbath's Theatre?
Proust's Swann's way?
Every year I bring Finnegan's Wake along - this year too?
And there're so many other books that might catch my eye on the way out the door. I hope to have some balance between theology, philosophy, poetry, fiction. Plus there are dvds and cds to pick out. And my water colors along with brushes and paint. Painting at the beach is quite a treat.
And I have ten different beers to try. Mostly IPAs but some amber ales and a kolsch.
And that's a key: beach reading goes together with beach drinking.
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You might enjoy crossing your interests in Shakespeare and Kenneth Burke by reading the recent collection of KB's essays on the Bard:
http://www.parlorpress.com/shakespeare.html
What about my interests in Barth, Hegel, Zizek, Wm Matthews, Ezra Pond, Thelonious Monk, Don Delillo, the 1935 Boston Braves (worst team of all time!), the visible spectrum of color, the antikithera device, Kierkegaard, Marx, Foucault, Derrida, Tillich, Pannenberg, Eberhard Jungel, and many others - maybe there's a great book web site an anonymous poster can cross all those with.
Davis is this you?
Cut it out.
Oh honey. You forgot Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, which is the only book on the list I could actually bear to read at the beach. You are wonderful.
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