of the 2025 Bike Odyssey
Bike touring is all about keeping down the weight of your gear. Given that I prefer physical books to reading on electronic devices, I am in a bit of a bind. Books are heavy. In order to read as much as I am planning to read on this ride but at the same keep the weight of my gear low, I am only going to be carrying two books with me at a time. Once I finish a book, I will seek to trade it with someone who has a book they would like me to read.
If you are on my bike tour route and have a book you think I would like, consider trading it with me for whatever book I finished last.
Books read so far:
Tenacious Solidarity by Walter Bruggemann (my first contemporary theology, and I’m loving it)
The Farewell Party by Milan Kundera (a reread that has now fallen apart)
The Confessions by St. Augustine (a reread, I still don’t like Augustine. He is part of the reason Western Christianity went of the rails)
How to Send a Message by Caimh McDonnel (so bad I couldn’t get through half of it)
How to be Alone by Lane Moore (an execrable book; avoid)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (an old favorite in need of revisiting)
A Bicycle of Cathay by Frank R. Stockton (read aloud by Zyzzy; not really about bikes)
Magister Lundi or The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse (fitting and highly recommended)
Dionysus on a Bike 