Finally updating! Whew!
I still haven’t finished James Charlesworth historical Jesus book, but I took a vacation from reading theological/historical things and spent a good month indulging in my love for cryptozoology and folklore studies. Thus in the past month I’ve polished off a good seven books, mostly in the “Monsters of [Insert State]” series, as well as Linda Godfrey’s latest compilation of data on Real Wolfmen: True Encounters In Modern America. I still lack reading a book from Jeff Meldrum on scientific study of Sasquatch. 
Also recently finished:
The Barbarian Conversion From Paganism To Christianity – by Richard Fletcher; mentioned previously in the thread. I’ve been plugging along on this book for a while, and finally polished it off in the past day or so.
The Atonement Contextualized – by JP Holding. Yes, this is a short cheap book; but I have monstrous tomes in my read-list, too, so having a quick book to burn through helps keep the average at more human levels. 
This was read as part of finishing off my JRP vs. JPH vs. Christian Universalism thread, and my short report is that he addresses none of my problems with his agonistic atonement theory, either at all or any further than he had already written (which I had problems with), especially on the connection of his theory to his variant of eternal conscious torment (of which there isn’t much written in his book at all). I’ll have more to say about this later in another thread.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality – not finished, because it’s still very much a work in progress, but the next large bites of this epic fan-fiction were released while I wasn’t looking, so I got to chew on those in the past few days. The next huge installment, covering the next story arc, isn’t scheduled until this spring. sigh.
I’m currently reading Rodney Stark’s book on the Crusades; a compilation of the original Flash Gordon comic strip series; the third book (still) of Winchester’s Prophecies Remaining to be Fulfilled; Winchester’s epic poem The Process And Empire Of Christ (which serves as a sort of summary of his Lecture On Prophecies series, plus a lot of commentary on the Gospels); Charlesworth’s historical Jesus book; Hryn’s The Challenge of Our Hope (still plugging along on that occasionally); and The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam which is utterly heartbreaking and I wish I could finish it soon and get it off my plate. 
In related news, Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time finally ends today after fifteen books with Book 14 (there was a prequel novel, too, back there somewhere) being released posthumously. (Fantasy author and WOT fan Brian Sanderson was hired by publisher Tor to pull RJ’s notes together for a final trilogy.) I’m seriously considering buying the… um… {counting} 6 books of this series (including the prequel novel) to finish it out, having stopped after Winter’s Heart when I heard early reports that Crossroads of Twilight didn’t move the plot along very well.
This series means a lot to me, partly because growing up as a baby author myself I was determined to avoid RJ’s various mistakes. 
(Also because of someone I met while discussing the series online half her lifetime ago, which is in itself kind of a reason not to finish reading the series. 
) But with all the other books I own on my plate, I’m going back and forth on whether to invest in finishing the series now or later. 
