Reading List - 2011!!!

As we head into a new year, let's see what everyone is reading!

I am currently reading 'The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larrson

Still reading the Randy Alcorn book.

I just started "More Than a Carpenter" by Josh McDowell.

Feeling ambitious this new year; currently reading Burn by Dekker & Healy, and Hallowed be Thy Names by Dave Wilkerson.

Nobody - Creston Mapes

Currently I am reading "Crazy Love" by Fancis Chan, and "Deadline" by Randy Alcorn.

However, I am in the last week of my final class in my Master's program, so I should be able to read a lot of great books I have been waiting to read. I have tons of stuff I have been picking up to read when I am done. I have the entire "Brother Cadfael" series to read (21 books) by Ellis Peters, the "King Raven" trilogy by Stephen Lawhead to name a few.

I just got done listening to Upton's Sinclair's 1927 classic "Oil!".

Let me save you all the trouble of reading this incredibly long novel and tell you that it isn't really that much different than his other famed novel "The Jungle".
In both stories he spends the first half of the book developing interesting characters, then he blows it in the second half of the book by spilling his Socialist manifesto/agenda with a very heavy handed pen on nearly every page.....pretty much ruining the rest of the story line IMO.

Just finished Burn by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy. I don't know if something's wrong with me, but I can't seem to get into Dekker's current work like I did his earlier books. Burn was a chore for me to read; it didn't draw me in like Thr3e or Skin did. I don't know, maybe my tastes are changing. I'll never consider Ted Dekker anything less than a superb writer, but it bugs me when a favorite disappoints.

joe61 wrote:

Just finished Burn by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy. I don't know if something's wrong with me, but I can't seem to get into Dekker's current work like I did his earlier books. Burn was a chore for me to read; it didn't draw me in like Thr3e or Skin did. I don't know, maybe my tastes are changing. I'll never consider Ted Dekker anything less than a superb writer, but it bugs me when a favorite disappoints.

I actually liked burn, but I know what you mean because that's the way I feel about the his more recent solo books (Immanuel's Veins, The Bride Collector, The Bone Man's Daughters)

The Awakening - Angela Hunt

I just bought the Johnny Unitas biography.

Erin Healy- The Promises She Keeps

Demolition Man wrote:

Erin Healy- The Promises She Keeps

I didn't know she had a new one out. I will definately need to read that one.

I'll definitely have to get that Erin Healy book sometime in the future.

Just bought:

The Overton Window ~ Glenn Beck

Deception Point ~ Dan Brown

How to Raise a Modern Day Knight by Robert Lewis. While there are a few issues, I'd highly recommend it for any fathers of boys up to teens.

Real Life - Preparing for the 7 most challenging days of your life Dr Phil McGraw

Perfect - Harry Kraus M.D.

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

Real Life - Preparing for the 7 most challenging days of your life Dr Phil McGraw

The Dr Phil from Oprah?

I was thinking the same thing. Dr. Phil ~ How to live wrong and screw up everything you do...

Yep, that's the one.

What grabbed me was one of the 7 is about how to handle things when your body breaks down. It goes through the basics of what to do and how to handle things, before they come... so you're prepared. ie how to deal with the sudden death of a loved one (before it happens, so you're properly prepared).

It's pretty good so far (up to ch.3), ain't any more psychobabble than in most Christian help books.

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

It's pretty good so far (up to ch.3), ain't any more psychobabble than in most Christian help books.

Well I hope for your sake it's actually better than much of the psychobable in most "Christian" self-help books.
Not because I think it might shake your faith, but just because it would be a waste of time.

That's my OLDER brother lookin' out for me there... love ya Gar