Member: geoffreymeadows

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Tagsislands (24), Bible (16), science fiction (16), Islam (15), British history (11), short stories (11), Caribbean (10), natural history (9), YA (9), travel literature (9) — see all tags

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GroupsEcology and the environment, ISLAM, Progressive Christianity

Favorite bookstores57th Street Books, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Merrillville, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Orland Park, Borders - Orland Park, Powell's - Hyde Park, Seminary Co-op Bookstore

Favorite librariesChicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center, Lake County Public Library - Central Library, University of Chicago - John Crerar Library

About meThese are most of the books that I've read since 1993 plus a few older reads from before. I average about 20 books a year. When I was trying for a Masters in geography, I read much less.

Some books I haven't included, like "Snails of Land and Sea", because I'm afraid of what people would think if they knew I read it.

Yes, I'm something of an islophile. Not as much as I used to be. If I won the lottery, I'd visit every island on earth. Of course, there are thousands of islands and visiting every island on Earth would be pretty much impossible. I've been to England and Ireland, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (in England), the Florida Keys, Vancouver Island, and a few of the Great Lakes islands.

I'm also no longer a practicing Christian. For the most part, I'm not angry at the church or Christians. I just don't believe all the same things now. And I'm trying to keep my interests in God and church history alive. It's kind of a consolation, for instance, to read whatever I want to about church history, since in some of the churches I used to belong to, reading about other denominations, or reading the Quran like I did in 2008, would have been "discouraged".

I'm also looking for more things to do as an environmentalist.

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Locationsouth suburbs of Chicago

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Member sinceNov 28, 2008