In progress:
Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell

Sept, 2008:

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. A great read. An English butler reflects on his years of service, which may sound somewhat boring, but is told in such a vivid voice that it comes alive. This is my second book to read from Ishiguro, and my sense of him is that he loves a deluded narrator.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. Excellent “urban fantasy”/modern Alice-in-Wonderland.

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. Starts out as a fabulous detective story, but halfway through it becomes something else entirely, and not something that I could get excited about.

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis. This was my third attempt to read this book. Every time I have picked it up, I wonder why I ever put it down. The question remains a mystery. This is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Not only is it brilliantly written (I love the black is white and up is down point of view from which it is narrated), but its insights into the ways that Satan works to entrap us are at once obvious and brilliant.