Just catching up on some reading…

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I just got a Kindle and I am really looking forward to reading my Fall 2009 selections on this device!  Personally, I like to read more than one book at a time. Having them all available on one easy to use electronic gizmo is fantastic. (Aren’t those screen savers cool?!)

 I travel between Washington and California each week and it’s great to be able to take all my books and the daily newspaper on the plane in the palm of my hand. The Kindle is a traveler’s dream come true.  

Enough about the Kindle, here is my list  for this fall…

Fiction:

Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon – Nancy Atherton

Cream Puff Murder – Joanne Fluke

The Defector – Daniel Silva

Non – Fiction:

Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit – Francis Chan

Loving God with All Your Mind – Elizabeth George

Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge – Dallas Willard

Now, grab a pen and notepad; click the button below; and find out what others are reading out in the blogisphere!

 

I am reading a book called Sabbath by Dan B. Allender.   Here’s what the book flap says…

Sabbath Rest is not an option; it is a commandment.  But Dan Allender says we’ve lost the true meaning of the day.  The Sabbath, when experienced as God intended,  should be the best day of our life; it is an invitation to delight.  “Sabbath is the holy time where we feast, play, dance, sing, pray, laugh, tell stories, read, paint, walk and watch creation in its fullness,” he tell us.  “Few people are willing to enter the Sabbath and sanctify it, to make it holy, because a full day of delight and joy is more than most people can bear in a lifetime, let alone a week.”

I’m half way through the book and it is very intriguing:

“We are not to work on the Sabbath because it takes us out of the play of joy.  It is as bizarre as making love to your spouse, but getting out of bed during the process to cut your lawn or wash dishes.  Such an offense would do far more than spoil the mood; it would be a direct assault on the integrity of joy, announcing that a mundane chore is more pleasurable than sexual joy with your spouse.”

See what I mean!

Spring Reading Thing 2009

is a fun, low-pressure reading challenge

open to anyone and everyone

It will take place March 20th-June 20th

(which is, coincidentally, the Spring of 2009).

Click on the cute button above and head on over to Callapidder Days to find out more!

Fall Into Reading 2008 is now under way!  Here is my present list for this fall, which is subject to change frequently especially in the next couple of days after visiting all the other participants! 🙂 

Non Fiction –

1. Practical Theology for Women – by Wendy Horger Alsup
2. Jesus – The Greatest Life of All – by Charles R Swindoll
3. Walking with God – by John Eldredge
4. The Complete Guide to the Parables – by Dr. R. T. Kendall

Fiction –

1. The Shack by William P Young
2. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
3. The Legend of Holly Claus by Brittney Ryan
4. The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge
5. The Heart of the Family by Elizabeth Goudge
6. The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series by Susan Wittig Albert

That should keep me busy!  Can’t wait to see everyone elses’ lists!

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