It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

Since I last posted in It's Monday! What Are You Reading? I finished reading quite a few books. Here's the list of books I finished:

• Antigone, by Sophocles
• The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's, by Jeanne Murray Walker
• In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, by Matt Bell
• Second Sky: Poems, by Tania Runyan
• Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood

Now I've got a new stack of books I'm working on. First, I'm reading Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder, for a class I'm teaching. This is a book about Paul Farmer, a doctor who has dedicated his life to helping the poor in Haiti. Every time I read the book I'm amazed and inspired by Farmer's dedication. Here's a link to an interview with him on 60 Minutes.

Here are the books I'm reading just for myself:

• The second book is in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam series, The Year of the Flood. When the third book in the series came out last summer, I realized I would need to re-read the first two, to refresh my memory, before I read the third.
• Mary Doria Russell's Children of God, which is the sequel to her book, The Sparrow. These two are some of my favorite books of all time, but I haven't read Children of God in quite awhile, so I don't remember it all that well. I re-read The Sparrow a couple times recently for a science fiction class that I taught.
• A Year of Biblical Womanhood, by Rachel Held Evans. This is a book that's been talked about a lot, and I wasn't sure if I would like it so I resisted reading it for a long time. In actuality, I'm really enjoying the book! Evans is a Christian feminist, and her interactions with the biblical rules for women, and with the women of the Bible in this book are just fascinating. I'm hoping to meet her at the Festival of Faith and Writing this year, so I wanted to read the book before that happens in April.

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