What are You Currently Reading?

So You Don't Want to Go To Church Anymore by [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular][SIZE=-1]Jake Colsen (Wayne Jacobsen & Dave Coleman)[/SIZE][/FONT]

 

Cross and Crown
Apples of Gold

 

My mother read and re-read The Wizard of Oz to me when I was a kid.

I'm reading it to my grandson now.

Funny, although I must have heard it 4 or 5 times while growing up, my memory contains mostly the movie version.

I'm enjoying the book so much more as an adult.
As usual, the book is so much better than the scary movie, it's hillarious!
You've got to re-read it sometime.

Rob

 

I'm reading the "KGB: The Inisde Story" by former KGB General Oleg Gordiesky and Christopher Andrew.

It uses inside histories written by the KGB itself through the Communist years.

 

At a quick glance I thought you were talking about an expose of the KJVO movement.

 

I'm glad I didn't have a typo. :thumbsup: :laugh:

 

Well, I was going to mention it -- but 'Inisde" is a typo (unless you're a terrible speller).

 

I just started reading John MacArthur's new book The Jesus You Can't Ignore. I'm still reading the prologue. I'm looking forward to reading it! :thumbs:

 

Paradise to Prison/Davis Studies in Genesis

 

Why Classical Music Still Matters by Lawrence Kramer

 

Just finished reading in 1 go, "Once an Arafat Man" by Tass Saada (forward by Joel Rosenberg), former PLO sniper and chauffeur to Arafat. Wow, what a great read. I couldn't put it down and there are some surprising twists that you'd never suspect....well, I won't give it away.

Next up is "The Hole in Our Gospel" by Rich Stearns, president of World Vision, USA. Have heard of this one for a while now and just bought last week. The book clerk at my store assures me it makes us Christians sit up and really take notice of what we profess to believe and put into practice!

 

I just finished "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed and Other Things I've Learned" by Alan Alda. This is an interesting memoir of his life.

 

A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts.

This is a biography of British Navy Lieutenant James Holman who became blind, almost over night. He was 25 at the time. No one could explain why he went blind. This was at a time when it was believed that blindness, regardless of the cause, was a punishment from God and that the blind should simply sit and wait for death. Holman refused to do so. Alone and with little income Holman became one of the world's most widely and observant travelers. By the time of his death he was considered the greatest traveler in history. His books were popular at that time, but now he and his writings are almost totally forgotten.

 

A wayfarer in China: impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia
By Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

This is an interesting account by Kendall of her trekking across China, from West to East in the early 20th Century. The book was published in 1911 and is available free from the Internet at; http://books.google.com/books?id=0X...esult&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

 

A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe.

The complete title is:

A journal of the plague year
being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before

Of course once the book was published the events were made public. Defoe was a prolific writer, but most of his writings were political tracts. He best known work is Robinson Crusoe He was a child at the time of the plague. The year of his birth is not known. But he probably was old enough to remember some of the events and surely heard many stories of the plague as he grew up.

 

Published in 1918 this well written book describes a world that no longer exists.

Camps and Trails in China by Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews

 

Judith Herrin's new history of Byzantium. It's riding on the back of John Julius Norwich's history of the Mediterranean, The Middle Sea.

 

The Road to Appomattox

The Road to Appomattox by Robert Hendrickson.

Well written history and interesting in that he does not just talk about Lee and Grant but also covers other areas during the last year of the war.

 

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer. I first read this when I was in HS. It wasn't an assignment. I found a copy on my father's desk. He never got it back.

Tim Reynolds