hot summer reads
The summer months are good for many reasons. Warm weather, longer day light hours, vacations, BBQs, beach trips, etc. One thing I try to do every summer is catch up on some reading. I come across books throughout the year that I want to read, but just don’t have the time to open. My idea of a good retreat is to go up to a cabin in the woods and just read for days. So come summer, I like to read various books of interest, not just ministry related books.
This month I’ve read:
- Confessions of a Pastor by Craig Groeschel
- StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Currently, I’m reading:
- Yellow: Stories by Don Lee
- Generation to Generation by Edwin Friedman
A lot of what I read are suggestions from friends and peers. Have you read anything recently that stuck with you and affected your thinking? Do you have any must read suggestions? If so, I’d love to hear from you.
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Green Eggs and Ham… i’ve been looking for green eggs ever since.. only to have them elude me all my years..
Dude… I have, or should I say, Nathan has the whole Dr. Seuss collection. Can’t wait to read the Narnia series and Harry Potter with the boys.
Harry potter is the devil!!! haha… jk
btw.. i heard green eggs.. like the real stuff is really good.. i would eat them in a box, i would eat them with a fox, i would eat them while wearing socks, i would eat them on the docks…
wow…i definitely could have gotten don lee’s book for you for FREE. i’m interning at the company that publishes his work. cool, huh? haha not really, i guess.
but if there are any other norton books that strike your interest, mention it in a blog! :]
actually, I picked up yellow at a used book store for $4. funny thing is, i thought it was a another book. i didn’t realize it wasn’t the book i was hoping for until i was half way finished with it. silly me.
as for free books… are you serious??
ESPN.com has some great reads =) especially the golf section
I only read the Bible. All day. Everyday.
Jk, I just thought it was funny cause we went over fanatacism in College group last week. woo!
I haven’t read all of Freakonomics yet but the little I did read was pretty interesting. A very different view on things.
[...] response to my post on summer reading last month, people from my church all pitched in to buy me a bunch of good books on my birthday. [...]
The Shack by William P. Young
I just finished reading “The Shack” and it has to be one of my favorite book. The author came to talk at my church and it was really touching.
If you like “The Kite Runner,” I think you will like “A Long Way Gone.” It is an autobiography that gives you a glimpse of life in Sierra Leone as an young boy.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
The Shack seems to be growing in popularity. I see more and more people around who are reading it. Thanks for the suggestion!