John McGreevy at dotCommonweal points us to a piece regarding bookshelf etiquette: What percentage of the books on your shelf have you actually read? Does this percentage matter? Is one’s bookshelf meant to display, for the most part, books that you have read, or books that signify the type of person one wants to be?
Definitely something this theology graduate student has thought about. McGreevey also asks, List one book on your bookshelf that you bought and thought you would read but never got more than a couple pages into.
I would answer Hardt and Negri’s Empire.
While we’re doing confessions, what book have you checked out of the library a couple times, but never got more than a few pages into? For me, John Milbank’s Theology and Social Theory.
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