{"id":1874,"date":"2005-01-18T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2005-01-18T18:03:37","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T23:03:37","slug":"50-book-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/01\/50-book-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Book Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Baude discusses something called the 50 book challenge<\/a>, with the idea being to read 50 books this year and blog about them. Not a bad idea.<\/p>\n

I think I’m tentatively going to try it. It’s time to fill in some longstanding gaps in my reading, and this kind of structure may help me remember to do so. I may end up well short of fifty, but then again, maybe not. I’m going to put up some initial plans here, in part to shame myself into keeping up. And I’m going to start easy — by focusing mostly on books that I already have, on the shelf at home, but which I haven’t yet read. (Yes, my book buying capacity seems to greatly outstrip my free time for book reading).<\/p>\n

Here are a few that I’m starting with:<\/p>\n

Religion<\/strong>
\nBy the Hand of Mormon<\/em>. It’s been sitting on the shelf for some time, it’s about time that I actually read it.
\nMormonism and the Magic World View.<\/em> Also sitting on the shelf; also as yet unread.
\nPrelude to the Restoration<\/em>. I already started this one, and it’s good so far — a Sperry Symposium collection.
\nFire in the Bones<\/em>. About Tyndale. Came recommended by a ward member.
\nBushman’s new one, if\/when it comes out.
\nJulie Smith, Search Ponder and Pray<\/em>. (What’s the use of co-bloggers if not to read their stuff).
\nJack Miles’ God<\/em>, which comes highly recommended by a friend, and possibly Christ<\/em> if I like the first one.
\nMere Christianity<\/em>. (I think I have a copy around somewhere).
\nSomething on at least one of the people that Taylor Petrey blogged about.<\/p>\n

Law and History<\/strong>
\nHart’s Concept of the Law<\/em>. (In the mail).
\nHart and Honore on Causation. (On the shelf)
\nGordon Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. (On the shelf).
\nRakove’s Original Meanings. (On the shelf). (Are we sensing a pattern here?)
\nCaro’s LBJ. (Yes, I know, everyone except me read this two years ago. I’m a little behind the curve).
\nBernstein (and Oman), You Can’t Say That<\/em>. (On the shelf).
\nSunstein, One Case at a Time<\/em>. (Shelf). (Does it count if I already read the law review article?).
\nSunstein, Why Democracies Need Dissent.<\/em> (Shelf).
\nAmar, Bill of Rights. <\/p>\n

Literature \/ Philosophy<\/strong>
\nThe Brothers Karamazov. (On the shelf).
\nUnamuno’s Niebla<\/em>. (In the mail).
\nLove in the Time of Cholera. (On the shelf).
\nSomething Shakespeare that I haven’t yet read (Riverside on the shelf). I’m thinking perhaps Troilus and Cressida.
\nSomething Locke (most like Two Treatises, shelf) (I’ve read bits and pieces, but I’m not counting that).
\nSomething Kant (I’ve got one or two of the Critiques on the shelf, I think, though I haven’t seen any Kant for a while; it may be lost).
\nSomething Mill (Utilitarianism?).
\nSomething Neitzsche (probably Thus Spoke Zarathustra).
\nSomething Nabakov. (Ada?)
\nSomething feminist-y and not too strident. (Quite a bit on the shelf).
\nSome pretty poetry, perhaps some Whitman or Neruda or Dickinson.<\/p>\n

Other<\/strong>
\nMoneyball. (Yes, I know I’m late on this one too).<\/p>\n

Hmm, that’s 30(ish) targeted so far. That’s probably a good enough plan for now. We’ll see if I manage to get through that many before the year’s end, and who knows, perhaps I’ll even make it to fifty. Meanwhile, I’ll post periodically about books, in particular the Mormon-themed ones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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