Different Views

I'm in my parents house for Easter, it's almost better than a library. As I'm on this mini quest I've been scouring the bookshelves for holy books. I avoided taking a look at the bible this time around.
Véarsaí Roghnaithe as an Quran Beannaithe (Chosen verses from the Holy Quran)
My first reading of the Quran or understanding of the way it is The Book and that it should be read by all. I like the lack of emphasis placed on Jesus, Mohammed and other prophets - the focus is on Allah. I think I'll be doing more reading of the Quran, in Irish or English - my Arabic wouldn't be up to it.
We had a dinner-table discussion about religions based on books, and whether some anthropologists are right in concluding that religions were founded as societys answer to "what to do with dead people".
Dánta Dé (Poems for God)
This is a beautiful book that a neighbour passed on to us. Published in 1928. The poems or prayers are set to music. They are laid out thematically eg. Morning and Evening, Easter, The Feast of St. Brigid and so on. I lool forward to taking out my violin and tackling the melodies. The Irish is written in the old script so it's a little tricky and even the wording is a little beyond me but it struck me that morning prayer could be more pleasant (for me) if it were sung.
The Holy Ghost Hymnal
My Aunt's name is on this little book, it seems to have been a schoolbook. The hymns are in Irish, English and Latin with the music provided.
Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing
The subtitle for this book is "Meditation in Action". I recently bought myself a new diary, the one I've been using for the past few years is finally full. I stood at the shelf in the stationery shop debating with myself why I used to choose diaries and notebooks with a spiral spine, it was beacuse I used to sketch and found it more comfortable to be able to fold over the pages, but I concluded that I haven't sketched in a long time and so there was no need for the spiral binding and I bought a more typical diary. And now, upon discovering this book and reading how drawing things really help to see them, and remembering how much I enjoyed sketching - I'm regretting my choice of new diary...! I haven't read much of this book yet but the core idea is undebatable.