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Sunday, January 31st, 2010 07:18 am
The Forgotten Desert Mothers : sayings, lives, and stories of early christian women by Laura Swan
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson ed. Thomas H. Johnson
Dancing After the Whirlwind : Feminist Reflections on Sex, Denial, and Spiritual Healing by L. J. Tessier
Buddhist Women On The Edge : Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier ed. Marianne Dresser
The Female Diaconate : an historical perspective by Matushka Ellen Gvosdev
Chastity as autonomy : women in the stories of the apocryphal acts by Virginia Burrus
The Cult of Isis Among Women in the Graeco-Roman World by Sharon Kelly Heyob
Feminism in Christianity : an orthodox christian response by Deborah Belonick
The Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdock
Science and Health with key to the scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
But She Said : Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretation by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Practical Mysticism : a little book for normal people by Evelyn Underhill
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009 09:48 am
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
Priestesses by Norma Lorre Goodrich
Spiders & Spinsters: Women and Mythology by Marta Weigle
Sappho : A Garland : The Poems and Fragments of Sappho tr. Jim G.F. Powell
The House of Secrets : The Hidden World of the Mikveh by Varda Polak-Sahm
God is Not Reasonable : and other stories of Mother Macrina by Irma Zaleski
In the Heart of the Desert : the spirituality of the desert fathers and mothers by John Chryssavgis
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel tr. Robert Alter
Which Mary? : the Marys of early Christian tradition ed. F. Stanley Jones
Mary Magdalene, the first apostle : the struggle for authority by Ann Graham Brock
Discerning the Signs of the Times: The Vision of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel by Elisabeth Behr-Sigel
Poustinia : Encountering God in Silence, Solitude and Prayer by Catherine De Hueck Doherty
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Monday, November 30th, 2009 07:25 am
I will read these again. I liked them very much. -
The Leaf and the Cloud : a poem by Mary Oliver
Houses of Study : A Jewish Woman among Books by Ilana M. Blumberg
Immortal Sisters tr. Thomas Cleary
The Church and the Second Sex by Mary Daly

You should check out these if you're interested in that sort of thing -
Your daughters shall prophesy : feminist alternatives in theological education by the Cornwall Collective
Is Heathcliff a Murderer? : Puzzles in 19th-century fiction by John Sutherland
In Search of Belief by Joan Chittister
Mother's first-born daughters : early Shaker writings on women and religion ed. Jean McMahon Humez
Unspoken Worlds : Women's Religious Lives by Nancy Auer Falk

You should avoid this one. Don't read it. Advise anyone you see on the subway reading it to stop now -
Mirages of Marriage by William J. Lederer and Don D. Jackson
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009 06:30 pm
I will read these again. I liked them very much. -
Bread not Stone : The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels
The Way of Repentence by Irma Zaleski

You should check out these if you're interested in that sort of thing -
The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
The Barn at the End of the World : the apprenticeship of a quaker, buddhist shepherd by Mary Rose O'Reilley
An Altar in the World : a geography of faith by Barbara Brown Taylor
The Throne of Labdacus by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
King Oedipus by Sophocles

I don't exactly regret reading these, but I can't recommend them at all:
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
Women as Interpreters of the Bible by Patricia Demers
Kebra Nagast tr. Sir E. A. Wallis Budge
Mary According to Women ed. Carol Frances Jegen BVM
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Monday, August 31st, 2009 04:30 pm
2 August - The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe ed. Karin Maag
3 August - Women in Chains : A Sourcebook on the Agunah ed. Jack Nusan Porter
5 August - Sweetbitter Love : Poems of Sappho tr Willis Barnstone
7 August - The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene : legends, apocrypha, and the christian testament by Jane Schaberg
8 August - The Book of Enoch the Prophet tr. R.H. Charles
9 August - Opening to You: zen-inspired translations of the psalms by Norman Fischer
16 August - Disputed Questions by Thomas Merton
19 August - Goat Song : A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler
20 August - The Ethiopian Book of Life, also known as The Bandlet of Righteousness: an Ethiopian Book of the Dead tr. E.A. Wallis Budge
21 August - The New Long Poem Anthology ed. Sharon Thesen (1991)
21 August - Sappho tr. Mary Barnard
22 August - The Lost History of Christianity : the Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia by Philip Jenkins
22 August - The service of the Sunday Vespers
23 August - A Book of Psalms by Stephen Mitchell
23 August - The Cologne Mani Codex : concerning the origin of his body tr. Ron Cameron and Arthur J. Dewey
24 August - The Experience of God by Dumitru Staniloae
25 August - Gaia's Garden : a guide to home-scale permaculture by Toby Hemenway, 2nd edition
26 August - meeting faith : The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele
27 August - Fingerprints of God : the search for the science of spirituality by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
28 August - The New Long Poem Anthology, 2nd edition ed. Sharon Thesen (2001)
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Friday, July 31st, 2009 10:22 am
30 July: Mother of God: a History of the Virgin Mary by Miri Rubin
28 July: Courage to Pray by Anthony Bloom
27 July: The Writings of Julian of Norwich ed. N. Watson & J. Jenkins
26 July: Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics by Carol Lee Flinders
26 July:Women Saints in World Religions ed. Arvind Sharma
25 July: Women and Buddhism, Spring Wind Buddhist Cultural Forum vol.6 no.1-3. 1986.
24 July: The First Buddhist Women: Translations and Commentary on the Therigatha by Susan Murcott
19 July: tao te ching tr. Victor H. Mair from the Ma-wang-tui manuscripts discovered in 1973
19 July: Stephen Mitchell's translation of Tao te ching in a pretty illustrated edition
16 July: The Mathematics of Marriage: Dynamic Nonlinear Models by J.M. Gottman, J.D. Murray, C.C. Swanson, R. Tyson, and K.R. Swanson
14 July: Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction by Rowan Williams
11 July: Spiritual Writings by Leo Tolstoy
10 July: The Shakers and the World's People by Flo Morse
8 July: the Cloud of Unknowing
6 July: Women Deacons in the Early Church by John Wijngaards
6 July: Women deacons in the Orthodox Church by Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald
1 July: Theology of Wonder by Seraphim Sigrist
1 July: The Origins of Christian Morality by Wayne Meeks

I read many books on vacation.
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 10:20 am
21 June: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
17 June: The Sex Lives of Saints: an Erotics of Ancient Haigography by Virginia Burrus
16 June: The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq by Joel Thomas Walker
8 June: Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes by Kenneth Bailey
6 June: The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran by Elizabeth Key Fowden
26 May: Ephrem's Hymns on Paradise tr. Sebastian Brock
25 May: The Lotus Sutra tr. Gene Reeves
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