"Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom;
yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom;
seek learning, even by study and also by faith."
Doctrine and Covenants 88:118

"And the gatherer sought to find pleasing words, worthy writings, words of Truth."
Ecclesiastes 12:10



2018

2018 Reading Goals

I - Unfinished Business from 2017  (Active ones sitting on my nightstand to be read a little at a time before going to sleep)
  1. Mahabharata  Started, on HOLD
  2. I Am That / Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj  READING
  3. Meditations / Marcus Aurelius  Started, on HOLD
  4. Letters / Vincent Van Gogh Started, on HOLD
  5. The Poem Itself / Stanley Burnshaw  Browsing Intermittently
  6. Letters to Olga / Vaclav Havel  COMPLETED
  7. Scivias / Hildegarde of Bingen  Started, on HOLD
  8. Zen Buddhism / D. T. Suzuki    COMPLETED
  9. The Hero with a Thousand Faces / Joseph Campbell   COMPLETED
  10. Middlemarch / George Eliot ON MY CELL PHONE.  READING WHEN I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO.
II - Loose Canon (UTNE Reader)
  1. Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi \ The Divan of Shams-i-Tabriz
  2. Margaret Smith \ Râbi`a
  3. Francois Rabelais \ Gargantua and Pantegruel Started, on HOLD
  4. Wu Ch'eng-en \ Monkey (or, Journey to the West) Started, on HOLD
  5. Akira Kurosawa: The Seven Samurai (DVD)
III - A Life Time's Reading 3rd Year
  1. Mark Twain \ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  COMPLETED
  2. Mark Twain \ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn COMPLETED
  3. Edward Conze \ Buddhist Scriptures Probably superseded by Buddhism/Zen reading list
  4. Dostoevsky \ The Brothers Karamazov
  5. Ramon Gomez de la Serna \ Greguerias
  6. William Trevor \ The Love Department
  7. Saint Teresa De Jesus \ Life READING (slowly in Spanish)
  8. Emily Dickinson \ Complete Poems  READING (5 to 10 poems a day)
  9. Arrian \ Anabasis COMPLETED
  10. Arthur Conan Doyle \ Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes  COMPLETED
IV - The Next Whole Earth Catalog
  1. Robert Pirzig \Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance READING

V - The Millennial Whole Earth Catalog
  1. Walpola Rahula \ What the Buddha Taught COMPLETED

VI - My Ideal Bookshelf
  1. The Portable Hawthorne  Started, on HOLD
  2. The Way of the Samurai / Yukio Mishima COMPLETED
  3. The Portable Chekhov Started, on HOLD

VI - Books encountered Randomly
  1. Bushido and the Art of Living / Alexander Bennett Started, on HOLD
  2. Dark Age Ahead / Jane Jacobs Started, on HOLD
  3. The Five People You Meet in Heaven / Mitch Albom COMPLETED
  4. The Happiness Project / Gretchen Rubin Started, on HOLD
  5. Richard Adams / Watership Down COMPLETED
  6. Elizabeth Gilbert / Big Magic COMPLETED

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