I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I finally finished my first book of the year and I started this book in December. Oh my reading has been slacking lots lately!
I just finished FRONT OF THE CLASS by Brad Cohen and I'm not sure why it took me this long to read it b/c it is a super easy to read book.
This book was for sure not life changing for me, but it was a good read about someone overcoming challenges set before them. He has tourette syndrom and won teach of the year his first year of teaching. The book is a great read for someone who has challenges to overcome. Laura gave it to me to read after we found out about Deacon's RRP and it was great timing for me to read it.
I just recently started PARENTING THE HURT CHILD by Keck & Kupecky and am really loving it. I've also been reading ON THAT DAY, EVERYBODY ATE by Margaret Trost and hopefully can devote some good time to it soon.
Next on my bookshelf are:
COMPELLED BY LOVE by Stetzer & Nation
ADOPTED FOR LIFE by Moore
A PRAYING LIFE by Miller
That's what's going on in my book life. What about yours?
So far this year, finished:
THE CHALLENGE OF JESUS by N.T. Wright
FOLLOW ME TO FREEDOM by Shane Claiborne and John Perkins
SOCCERNOMICS: WHY ENGLAND LOSES, WHY GERMANY AND BRAZIL WIN, AND WHY THE US, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, TURKEY–AND EVEN IRAQ–ARE DESTINED TO BECOME THE KINGS OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR SPORT (hello, longest title ever) by Kuper and Szymanski
MOLLY IVINS: A REBEL LIFE (she was my favorite journalist before she died in ’07)
Now reading:
TAKE THIS BREAD by Sara Miles (great for Lent)
ANNA KARENINA by Tolstoy (read it every year)
MY TRAITOR’S HEART: A SOUTH AFRICAN EXILE RETURNS TO FACE HIS COUNTRY, HIS TRIBE, AND HIS CONSCIENCE by Rian Malan (descendant of the Malan family in SA who were the architects of apartheid)
Plus about 1200-1500 pages a week for class. All I do is read. 😛
oh my gosh all you do is read!
awesome!
If you could pick one book off your list for my readers to be, what would it be?
i have never read this book…but, i have seen the movie. AND i know brad cohen! he served on the steering committee with me for relay for life for the past couple of years. he is an AMAZING man. he works not too far from here and is a great inspiration to his student 🙂
Yeah, but I’ll be glad to be back in the real world in June.
They’ve all been good but I think I’d recommend “Follow Me to Freedom: Leading and Following as an Ordinary Radical.” A lot of people are probably familiar with Shane from his books “Irresistible Revolution” and “Jesus for President.” This one he wrote with John Perkins, who has been involved in the civil rights movement in Mississippi and still lives there working on urban renewal in Jackson, he’s kind of the grandfather of Christian Community Development Association (CCDA). It’s kind of a conversation between the two of them on justice, reconciliation, peacemaking, leadership, raising the next generation of leaders, etc. Good stuff from two guys I have a ton of respect for.
Love CCDA. Thanks for the great recommendations, Shannon (& Jamie)! I’m reading Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin by Plantinga for Lent. And Boys Should be Boys by Meg Meeker & The Horse & His Boy by CS Lewis. A little from different genres there. 🙂
I’m reading The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones. I finished Fluke by Christopher Moore and Picking Dandelions by Sarah Cunningham. I’m also re-reading East of Eden with my seniors – SUCH a great book. 🙂