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... volume one, both by Neil Gaiman. I really like the way Gaiman's mind works.
I've also nibbled around the edges of The Essential Rumi, though I'm not really feeling the mystical at the moment. ... and Sweet by Jamie Ford, which I need to be finishing up as my blog tour date is Monday ... yikes!
I also picked up The Essential Rumi and read a few pages in it. ... Jim by Christian Moerk, which I had won from a blog contest.
Then, the mail man brought me two books from PBS:
The Essential Rumi by Jalal Al-Din Rumi, a 13th century Sufi mystic and poet. I've started the first few pages of this book, which I was drawn to... I had no reason to ... ... - An Area of Darkness V. S. Naipaul
Tunisia - The Perfumed Garden Umar Ibn Muhammed Al-Nefzawi
Turkey - The Essential Rumi
United States – Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller
Uzbekistan - Alberuni's India Al-Biruni
Venezuela - Bush Pilot in Diamond Country Do ... As of 1/24/09, I have filled each category with at least one book.
The ninth book entered was Essential Rumi on Jan. 19 and as of today (24) I have read a total of 12 books. got in before 100 came around
I just finished Essential Rumi. I enjoyed it, don't ask me to discuss it. i read it because it was a square on my library's BINGO game and I needed it to finish a line.
Now I can finish Abhorsen and get back to Passing of the Armies. ... out at the same time!! Can't keep up with that and still try and get books off my own shelves.
I am alternating between Essential Rumi and Abhorsen and hope to get back to Passing of the Armies next week. I only have 8 more on my 50 Challenge to go and then I start a 100 plus the 999. A ... Library called - Plum Spooky came in and one of the first copies in the system, too!
I also brought home Essential Rumi for the bingo game thing.
These will supersede my other books or maybe I'll just read them at the same time - a chapter here, a chapter there! That'll be a possibility ... Library called - I brought home Essential Rumi for the bingo game thing and Plum Spooky - one of the first copies in the system, too!
These will supersede my other books or maybe I'll just read them at the same time - a chapter here, a chapter there! oops -
57. Unseen Rain - Rumi
58. Poems from Homeroom - Kathi Appelt 56. Unseen Rain - Rumi
57. Poems from Homeroom - Kathi Appelt
41) Engaged to Die - 1/13/09
42) Plum Spooky - 1/16/09
43) Essential Rumi - 1/19/09
44) Abhorsen - 1/21/09
45) Mounting Fears - 1/23/09
46) The Parables of Jesus Red Letter Edition - 1/24/09
47) Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man -1/26/09
48) The Complete Cartoons of the ... Non-fiction not in the other categories
1 Lincoln's Men by Daniel Epstein - 1/11/09
2 Essential Rumi - 1/19/09
3 The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker -1/27/09
4 Ghosts of the Titanic by Pelligrino - 2/3/09
5 Salmon of Doubt - 3/16/09
6 Stupid American History by Lelan ... ... is worthwhile, especially Rilke's Book of Hours. And I always find Rumi to be a fun read. You could start with The Essential Rumi.
Of course there is always The Lord of the Rings. Not so Christian, at least overtly.
I am sure none of these books would "convert" you but ... ... away.
What is, and what isn't.
You who know, Jelaluddin,
You the one in all, say who I am.
Say I am you.
~ Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi ... and see. But what are some works that really changed the way you think? Not just in a small way, but big, BIG.
1. The Essential Rumi is a book I found late in life that changed the way I think and write.
2. The short story "That Evening Sun" by William Faulkner has haunted me ... ... instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
I have The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks, and I find it to be a wonderful collection, with a bit from all his different kinds of poems.
... sted.
I'm onto research reading for my National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org/) novel...presently reading The Essential Rumi and The Language of Life for themes and epigraphs.
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