{"product_id":"walking-a-literary-labryinth-isbn-9781594480027","title":"Walking a Literary Labryinth","description":"\u003cb\u003eNancy Malone’s thoughtful and poignant novel asks us to consider how our identity and our capacity to connect to others is shaped by the literature we read.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho of us doesn’t have a list of books that changed our life? Reflecting on her own reading life, Nancy Malone examines the influence of reading in how we define ourselves. Throughout, she likens the experience of reading to walking a labyrinth, itself a metaphor for our spiritual journey through life. The paths within the labyrinth are not straight, but winding, and in the end, it is not the small circle in the center that defines the self, but the whole grand design of the labyrinth—every experience, every person we meet, and every book we read—that makes us who we are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Malone draws from diverse sources, both spiritual and secular—Virginia Woolf, Saint Augustine, E. E. Cummings, Paul Tillich, Nadine Gordimer, George Herbert, Sue Grafton, Henry James, George Eliot, James Joyce, Patrick O’Brien, E. M. Forster, Franz Kafka, Elie Wiesel, Margaret Atwood, and Tom Wolfe, to name a few. Her thoughtful and beautifully articulated examination of influential books takes in a broad range of subjects, including childhood reading; books as sacred objects; reading and social responsibility; “dangerous” reading, which challenges us to examine our prejudices and beliefs; poetry; and erotic literature. And Malone has compiled a recommended reading list to inspire readers to seek out the unfamiliar or return to old favorites.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eWalking a Literary Labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e, Malone invites all us readers, of every religious tradition, or none, to consider the influence of reading in our own lives—how and why particular books stay with us, how they shape us, and how they enlarge our humanity.Walking a Literary Labyrinth\u003cb\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ABCs of the Self\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst Steps to Interiority\u003cbr\u003eReflection. \u003ci\u003eTake And Eat: The Act of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Take And Read\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Turning Point\u003cbr\u003eReflection. \u003ci\u003eSacramentality: The Book and the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Not by Bread Alone\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpiritual Reading in a Literary Desert\u003cbr\u003eReflection. \u003ci\u003ePilgrams and Monks: Reading and Praying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Circle Widens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheology as Spiritual Reading?\u003cbr\u003eReflection. \u003ci\u003ePleasure: Wasting Time for the Sake of God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecovering The Self\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStories: Fact and Fiction\u003cbr\u003eReflection. \u003ci\u003eThe Grammar of The Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlone at the Center?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntimacy in Reading and Prayer\u003cbr\u003eReflection. \u003ci\u003ePoetry: A Deeper Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOur Bodies, Our Selves\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Erotic in Spirituality and in Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Literary \u003ci\u003eContemplatio ad Amorem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImagination: Faith, Hope, and Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Give Beauty Back\": An Apologia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecommended Reading\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFiction\u003cbr\u003eShort Pieces That Have Made Me Laugh\u003cbr\u003eNonfiction\u003cbr\u003eBiography and Autobiography\u003cbr\u003eSpiritual Reading and Theology\u003cbr\u003eFor the Theologically Minded\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNancy M. Malone, O.S.U., is an Ursuline nun with a degree in theology from Harvard Divinity School. She was an editor at \u003ci\u003eReligion and Intellectual Life\u003c\/i\u003e and a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCross Currents.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303776669925,"sku":"NP9781594480027","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594480027.jpg?v=1767743561","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/walking-a-literary-labryinth-isbn-9781594480027","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}