favorite reads of ‘09

The end of the year is upon us all and it is usually tradition for bloggers to list their favorite books of the past year. As someone who loves liturgy, who am I to break with tradition?

This list is broken up into two parts: the first is for popular level books and the second is for academic books. I realize that that is subjective so if you have a problem with it then please send your complaints scribbled on the bottom of a Nintendo Wii to my house. Otherwise your complaints fall on deaf ears!

Also, a few of these books are older, but I just got around to reading them this year. Please forgive me for being so incredibly out of style. The lists are in alphabetical order by author, five in each category, sans annotation. Read the rest of this entry »