I am now an associated Christian librarian.

In addition to the perquisites of lots of listserv emails and the “free” copy of the journal, I hope this means I will have the eventual opportunity to help with the Christian Periodical Index.

This officially explains why swot is my new favorite word.

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We now have four occasional and recurring featured posts here at CommonPlaces:

1. commonplaces, where I provide a list of sometimes related new books here where I serve as a theological librarian,
2. book provenance,
3. random quotes from stacks,
4. and now chorea scriptorum, a latin phrase which, roughly translated, means “writer’s cramp.”

Given my newly self-imposed deadlines for research and writing over the next few months, I thought I would record the effects of my swotting and write summaries, reviews, and whatever else I may find helpful from the books I am reading. You can view the full list of books I am presently reading, preparing to read next, and those which I have recently finished reading here, in the chorea scriptorum library.

First up: Lori Branch’s Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment And Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth which I finished yesterday.

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As you can see, I finally fixed the php code I broke when toying with the template for this blog. Now we are back to where we began, and I (for one) feel much better. This look just feels better.

I’ve also added a couple of new features.

1. The leftbar now contains a list of books I plan to read, am currently reading, and have recently finished reading, each of which links to a page where I will eventually provide reviews. Those pages still have some formatting bugs I need to work out, but they shall be fixed soon. Let me know what you think.
2. I have also removed the page links from the header, so if you are one of my students and are looking for the link to your class page please email me and I will forward it to you.

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