BOOK IT!!!
Okay, It wil be another hour and a half til it's technically Friday. I thought, heck, risk a little, get startled early. Better early than late, right?
So here's what I want to know. If you could recommend one book for me to read what would it be. The Bible is too obvious. I already am reading it :) I want book titles, please! It could be about anything: relational, finances, novel, biography, parenting, cooking, etc.
The only limit is this. You can't use a title that somebody has already listed. Okay, go!
And if you just CAN'T list one, then list more than one. Don't let the idea of just one book bog you down!
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Biography:
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Fiction:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Non-Fiction:
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by Ronald Sider
The Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Just off the top of my head. I'm eager to see what other people recommend.
i LOVE this book! i had to read it this year for lit. and it has change my look on so many different things!
~Reaghan
Novels: Perelandra, Til We Have Faces, CSLewis; Flight of Peter Fromm, Martin Gardner; Father Elijah, Michael D. O'Brien; Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco; Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy (especially the audio recording narrated by Stephen Fry); Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky; Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy; Paradise Lost, Milton; Don Quixote, Cervantes......
Non-Fic: Lost in the Cosmos, Walker Percy; My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell; Fear and Trembling and Attack upon Christendom, by Soren Kierkegaard; Experiment in Criticism, Studies in Words, CSLewis; Little Exercise for Young Theologians and Nihilism, by Helmut Thielicke; Table Talk by Martin Luther; With or Against the World: America's Role Among the Nations, James W. Skillen; Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning, Owen Barfield; Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, John Frame; Symphoinic Theology, Vern S. Poythress; Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins; Church History in Plain Language, Bruce Shelley; Anything by Herman Bavinck...
Enough? Never! But good for now. I love you and I love your blog, baby. I check it before my email every day.
It's a little tiny old book-- I don't even know if it's in print anymore, but read it if you can find it...
Love you girl!
There are so many I like but one of my favorites, and auntie loved it also is -A peep behind the scenes(lamplighter). Also I really enjoyed these spiritual books- The pursuit of holiness by Jerry Bridges and Life as a vapor( very good) by John piper. I love you! Also I love Rover random hee hee:] Oh, mike, I loved reading all the books you liked! -em
Oh, & definitely the memoir Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.
But I think one of my most favorite books of all time has to be Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
from yesteryear - Silas Marner, George Eliot (or anything else she wrote)
from right now - My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult (could not put it down)
I MISS YOU!!! MMWAH! LiYY
I will second the super immunity book.
I also have started Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart by?
Twelve Extraordinary Women - John Macdonald
Drop Shot - Harlan Coben
Girl Talk by Mahaney girls
Great question girl!!
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kirkegaard (previously mentioned by Mike)
AND
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
One revolutionized the way I look at faith, the other gave me an awareness of the poor and downtrodden. Basically, two of the three most essential elements to a relationship with God.
Hope this comes thru OK> Thanks for the instructions. I had clicked on it before but nothing came up. I was reading the comments and I have just finished "The Heavenly Man'. It's an awesome book about a Chinese pastor and his persecution in prison for many years. The other book I would reccomend is "If God is so Good, Why Do I Feel So Bad?". It's about loss and is excellent. I accidently left it on the plane to Boston and feel the Lord must have wanted to use it in somesone's life.
Love you Guys, Auntie Barb
on the practical side:
Created to be a Helpmeet--Michael and Debi Pearl
To Train up a Child--same as above
(you can find these on www.nogreaterjoy.org for free newsletters, too.)
inspirational: Great With Child--Beth Ann Fennelly