The Narrow Road to Oku Matsuo Bashō In exquisite prose and perfect haiku, Bashō recounts his summer journey through Japan in 1689. This volume has the original Japanese on the left page and Donald Keene’s translation on the right. It also contains beautiful illustrations by Miyata Masayuki. A wonderful way to start the days. Didn’t want it to end.
The God Delusion Richard Dawkins
A bit of a slog, but a valuable description of many of the implications of belief in a god. Really geared to be another salvo in the battle between science and religion. The raising consciousness about natural selection was a little too much, but otherwise a useful account of the delusion that a belief in a god, any god, really is. Interesting ideas about whether teaching children religion is child abuse. Glad I read it, and glad I’ve finished it.
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