Series:
This year was a year of reading multivolume works. I finally
completed Robert Jordon’s 14 volume “Wheel of Time” series, a series I read in
Junior High and High School but never finished (I gave up on the series after
what seemed to be a blatant Deus Ex Machina).
I also read Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” Trilogy, and Brandon
Sanderson’s “Mistborn” Trilogy.
I made a valiant attempt to read both Douglas John Hall’s “The
Faith” Systematic Theology trilogy and Andrew Root’s “Secular Age” trilogy
(until I realized it is an ongoing series with at least five volumes, so far).
I intend to finish reading the Douglas John Hall books in the new year, and
will read the third Root book then too, but won’t be picking up the other 2 or
3.
Fiction:
There were two works of fiction that stuck out for me. One
was Tendai Huchu’s The Library of the Dead, a young adult alternative history/horror
book. The other was The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk, a granola hippie pagan
classic I can’t believe I never ran into while at the U of O.
Non-Fiction:
I read The Warmth of Other Suns for the New Jersey Synod’s
book club and was so taken by it I’m currently re-reading it in order to
facilitate discussion at a local library’s book club. Additionally, Chernow’s
Grant biography was both thick and good.
