What are you reading now?

"Rebel With a Cause - Finally Comfortable being Graham" - by Franklin Graham

(I read the first couple of pages at lunch during work today, and I enjoyed it! Will continue until I reach the end of the book. )

Nancy

 

The Potter's Freedom by James R. White

 

If you don't mind, let me know what you think about it when you finish. I have it, but haven't read it yet. I thought about reading it the other day.

In the Lord Jesus Christ,
Neal

 

Neal,
I am enjoying the book by White. For those who have read Norman Geisler's book "Chosen But Free" the Potter's Freedom by White is a must read.


by His Grace
mike

 

Just finished:

“A New Kind of Christian” by Brian McLaren
“The Fourth Hand” by John Irving

Currently reading:

“The Story We Find Ourselves In” by Brian McLaren
“Soul Salsa” by Leonard Sweet
“The Message” by Eugene Peterson
“The Comic Toolbox” by John Vorhaus
“Body of Secrets” by James Bamford

On deck:

“The Perfect Storm” by Sebastian Junger

 

My pastor just came by and gave me a book.

The Essential Arthur W. Pink Collection
1.The Attributes of God
2.The Sovereignty of God
3.The Beatitudes
4.The Lord's Prayer

 

1. IACOCCA: The Autobiography of Lee Iacocca -- Very interesting.
2. 5 Views on Apologetics -- Very slow reading.
3. The Disciplines of a Godly Man (Hughes) -- for the 3rd or 4th time; our men's Bible study group is using this book.

 

For the first time in years, I am reading fiction. It is a suspense novel written by Harlan Coben entitled Tell No One.

 

Currently, I'm reading Anne of Green Gables! I started it over the 4th of July weekend because I wanted something light! There's 8 books in the series, but don't know that I'll get to all of them anytime soon!

Next in my arsenal, in no particular order:

John Adams by David McCullough
Mission Compromised by Oliver North
Could I Have This Dance? by Harry Kraus
Purpose-Driven Church by Rick Warren
More Ready Than You Realize by Brian McLaren

 

Just finished "Sadie's Song," by Linda Hall (my review is downthread), and have started "Steal Away" by the same author. It's the first in a mystery series. Excellent author.

Next, I'll be reading the first two in a series by Jane Kirkpatrick, another of my favorite authors..."A Name of Her Own" and "Every Fixed Star." Kirkpatrick is without peer in writing about pioneer women. Her writing is lovely.


Recently finished Maeve Binchy's latest, "Quentin's." She is an Irish writer, secular, but I really, really enjoy her books.

Reading has been my escapist pleasure of choice this summer, FAR outweighing television, I'm happy to say. Excellent Christian fiction has the added bonus of reinforcing my faith and values,and even making me think about certain spiritual issues. So it's actually not totally escapism...just very enjoyable.

 

Just finished "Timeline" by Micheal Crighton. I had read it a few years ago, but when we took the kids to see Rugrats Go Wild, we saw a preview for it coming to the big screen so both dh and I decided to read it again.

Most of my books are still packed up due to the recent move.

I tend to get "stuck" on authors or specific subjects.

Authors: John Sanford, Patriciaw Cornwell, Nelson DeMille, John Douglas, Michael Palmer, John Grisham, Roy Hazelwood, Lewis Grizzard, Jonathan Kellerman, Robert K. Ressler and then Jenkins and LaHaye. I am starting to get interested in James Patterson and Tom Clancy

Subjects: Medical Thriller, Criminal Profiling, True Crime, Serial Killers, Criminology, Psychological Profiling, Autopsy findings, Blood spatter, balistics, and finger printing.

I also, at least once a year, read "The Thornbirds"

 

Hey Dina, I notice you like crime stories. I read a fascinating and disturbing book excerpt in my husband's latest "GQ." It was about two Mormon "fundamentalists" (the extremists who still believe in plural marriage,etc) who killed their sister-in-law and niece in cold blood because they believed God was telling them to do so.

I don't remember the name of the book, but I think it's by a Jon Krakauer.

 

Haven't seen that one yet. I may have to look for it. I forgot to mention that I am also looking to "collect" Ann Rule. Most people think she writes Fiction, but her first book "The Stranger Beside Me" is about when she worked with Ted Bundy at a Rape Crisis hotline. Then she started researching other crimes and writing about them.
Yes, I guess you could say that I am interested in that area. The plan right now is once we have settled in and been here a year I will be going to college to work on getting into the field. My dream job would a diener-aka Coroner's Asst. But I am also looking to get Crime Scene certified along with it. Sorta like CSI.
Just about any book along those lines interests me.
Thanks for the book idea.

 

I am reading *The Lost Daughters of China*.

We are praying about adopting one of these lost daughters.....

Molly

 

I just started Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis last night. A friend of mine really liked it so he let me borrow it.

 

And don't worry -- we won't.


I'm deep into Living It Up, a great book about luxury in America, and just picked up Snobbery, which will be a great companion piece.

Also, Philosophy of Sex and Love and The Trouble With Nature. The first is a collection, and I won't really be "reading" it, not directly through, I mean, but the latter should be, while academic, a good read.

 

I just finished Final Authority by William Grady...highly recommend it!
I'm always in the book of Proverbs, and just started JErimiah {hope I spelled that right!} and after tommorrow I'll be in Revelation....I've put off reading this book of the Bible completly through, cause I get confused, but I'm gonna start tackeling it, and pray for wisdom! There's a book I have on a study bout a boook of the Bible by Olever B Greene, and I'm gonna try and start it soon.
~Miss Abby

 

Today, I'm rereading Spurgeon's Lectures to My Students. Going to start on Charles Hodge's one volume abridged Systematic Theology which I got on sale for 50% off. As soon as I can get my hands on John Feinstein's Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage (on the 2002 US OPEN golf tourney), I'm going to devour it!

 

I currently have a huge stack of books I got for a steal at the Book Warehouse while on vacation last month. They are:

Fit Kids! by Kenneth H. Cooper
Train Up Your Children in the Way They Should Eat
Controlling PMS (natural remedies for better living)
Moms Make a Difference (stories of women who raised amazing children)
A Place of Quiet Rest
Lies Women Believe and the Truth That Sets Them Free (plus the Walking in the Truth study guide)
Freedom For Mothers (starting a class at my church)

Alas, I still have a stack of books I bought in the spring while vacationing:

Faith of a Child
Home By Choice
A Woman's Journey to the Heart of God
Standing Firm
Standing of the Promises
Beauty by the Book

Most of those books cost me $4.99 or less, but have a cover price of $9.99 to $12.95 each. That's why I have so many of them! Couldn't pass up those kinds of deals.

This, of course, is in addtion to the stack of magazines I currently have not read though they go back to April or May: Woman's Day, Country Home, Country Living, Living . . . or the library books I have recently read.

Julia