I love books. I love bookstores. I am content spending long amounts of time looking through all the different books and subjects that I could be interested in reading. And I'm especially drawn to the aesthetics of books, including the texture of the cover. It may not add anything to the content of the book, but I'm a sucker for a soft and smooth cover. Can anyone relate? Do you know that texture I'm referring to?
Anyway, I find myself purchasing lots of books in the process (editors must be catching on to my theory that "tex(ture) sells"...eh, deserving of a courtesy laugh? Is this mic on? come on!), and I get really excited about the idea of them. But what generally happens is that I will start reading one...get through a couple chapters and then I'll be excited to start another one...so then I start that one too. Pretty soon I'm kind of reading 4 books at a time and I never end of finishing any of them. Plus, all the other activities and responsibilities in life start to pile up...and I'm left with a shelf full of books that I've either partially read or that I was at some point really excited to read but haven't gotten around to.
So, since I have about two months to relax in El Salvador, I naturally got pumped thinking about all the books I could read while I'm there. Some that I've started reading multiple times but have never finished and a stack of new ones. Here's what's on the list:
*East of Eden- John Steinbeck
*What the Dog Saw- Malcolm Gladwell
*Naive Super- Erlend Loe
*Simply Christian- N.T. Wright
*A Million Miles In A Thousand Years- Donald Miller
*Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy & Fairy Tale- Frederick Buechner
* The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (one would think I've already read this...but no)
*A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers
*Sex God- Rob Bell
*Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit- Francis Chan
*How To Win Friends &Influence People- Dale Carnegie
So in the spirit of the coming new year, my resolution is to make a real attempt at finishing these books...well, at least half of them...because, lets be honest...I need to set attainable goals. Plus, there's the surfing, playing with my niece and nephew, Spanish tutoring, bronzing, and so on.
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I do the same exact thing with books. I have started so many. Although, I am not sure that I share your affinity for the texture of the cover, but I do like the smell, and I am only reading two out the eleven books you listed. Hope we can still be friends.
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ReplyDeleteWhich 2 are you reading, Rob? I had to think about it, seek counsel, and pray about...but I decided we can still be friends despite our differences.
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