Book Update

A book update...this is long overdue and I will probably miss some books I have been reading. Joshua has really encouraged me and inspired me to read more. We watch way less movies and tv and instead in the evenings we read quite a bit.

1. Power of a Praying Wife
2. Desperate by Sally Clarkson and Sarah Mae
3. My Life, My heart, My all MacDonald
4. Middlemarch by Eliot
5. Dombey and Son by Dickens
6. Agnes Grey by Bronte
7. Buggies and Blizzards
8. Ultimate Proof by Jason Lisle
9. Not a Fan
10. Out of the Salt Shaker
11. Tortured for Christ (Voice of the Martyrs)
12. You can Teach your Child Successfully

More books I have read this year...I read this book called "A Good Yarn" and was a great story about women's lives intertwining thru learning to knit. Hope to read another in the series soon.

Killer Bears was a book that I got at Aletheia Springs this year and was quite intrigued by. It is all about bear attacks and if there is any common ground in the attacks, etc. Gave me a whole new respect for the black bears up here on our mountain. Always be respectful of bears, they cannot be predicted at all--black or grizzly, momma or papa...so just give them their distance and don't be stupid and go hiking in their territory alone and unarmed!

Love Walked Among Us was a book I read for one of my counseling classes and it was good. It didn't stand out to me as a particularly wonderful book and I don't think I would be rereading it but it had some good insights into the Lord's life on earth and His love for us.







Can you believe I have never read Tortured for Christ? I was so glad to read this book and be better acquainted with the ministry of Voice of the Martyrs. Gave me quite an appreciation for the freedom we do have to witness and be bold for Christ and a renewed passion for praying for Christians around the world as well as helping them in any way I can.

 I read this book "The Holiness of God" for my counseling class and it sure gave me an overwhelming impression at how irreverent we are towards God. We as humans judge and act toward our holy God as no being should be allowed to do. Our God is so merciful and longsuffering towards his creation.

"I Married You" is a reread, Walter writes a book on his experience teaching a marriage conference in Africa and the problems they have with getting married, marriages, etc. So good and talks about why you need the leaving, cleaving and one flesh in the right order and you need all three!

2013 Book List Update

So I thought it was about time to update on some books I've been reading recently. I am still plugging away at my book list and reading quite a few in between. As for the book list I have checked one more off :

1. Power of a Praying Wife
2. Desperate by Sally Clarkson and Sarah Mae
3. My Life, My heart, My all MacDonald
4. Middlemarch by Eliot
5. Dombey and Son by Dickens
6. Agnes Grey by Bronte
7. Buggies and Blizzards
8. Ultimate Proof by Jason Lisle
9. Not a Fan
10. Out of the Salt Shaker
11. Tortured for Christ
12. You can Teach your Child Successfully

I have finished My Heart, My Life, My All by William MacDonald which is a book about discipling and I found it very convicting. It talked about how if we would just focus our attention on one person a year and really pour our life into them and teaching them about Christ and the Word of God and then they go and do the same how far that influence would spread. It was a fantastic book. 

I then read a book called From High Heels to Handcuffs talking about a lady in her midlife crises enrolling in police academy and walking you through the process. I came away with quite a new appreciation for our police men/women and how much they are required to do in one job. They have to be really skilled and fit and I got the  impression that many police officers crack under the pressure, I mean they have to deliver the news of death to parents, go on high speed chases, direct traffic, lots of paperwork, talk down suicide jumpers...so many different things that you would think they would have different divisions for some of them. Anyway, it was a really interesting book though sad because this woman was so dissatisfied with life since she didn't have Christ.



I then discovered a book called How Starbucks Saved My Life and it was about an older man who was in corporate america and was fired and how he went to work for Starbucks. It was quite interesting just learning about Starbucks and how they run their coffee shops and their standards. This book is about a well known man in New York. I was also sad about the mistakes he made and how he did not have real meaning in his life but found a lot of interesting facts in the book.



I also threw in Sister Chicks in Sombreros as an easy read and I love the Sister Chick series. They are written by a Christian author about women in their forties or fifties and the trips they go on and the adventures they have as sisters or best friends! They are even better read aloud by the author but I enjoyed rereading this one and enjoying all the fun. These books always make me want to travel or go on a cruise...fun read.

We also finished the Lord of the Rings trilogy read aloud in the van. We are now working on Phantom of the Opera...