What’s the first book you’ve finished or will finish in 2009?
I just finished Paradise Lost, by John Milton, as read by Nadia May.
As far as actual eyes-on-print goes, I’ll probably finished The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit before anything else.
I usually don’t make out much of a reading plan, because books I wasn’t planning on reading tend to find their way to the top of my list. But here are a few I know I’ll be working through in 2009:
- Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis. It’s literally a character flaw in me that I have not read this yet. That will be remedied as soon as I’m done with The Enchanted Castle.
- North! Or Be Eaten, Andrew Peterson. The first book in the series was fantastic, and I’m looking forward to the next with much anticipation.
- Harry Potter’s Bookshelf, John Granger. I’ve been waiting for this one since I knew it was in the works years ago.
- As much of The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge as I can get through.
- The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffery Chaucer. I loved these stories back in high school, and this is a new, unabridged translation.
- The Farthest Shore, by Ursula K. Le Guin. This is the third book of the Earthsea cycle, which is tremendous myth-making.
- Stardust, by Neil Gaiman. Gaiman’s been recommended to me over and over again, and it’s about time I read him.
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The My Friend Amy blog is talking reading plans today as well for the weekly “Faith and Fiction Saturdays” post.
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The first book I finished this year was actually Tales of Beedle the Bard, funny enough, since I got it for Christmas and made myself finish my other books first. Now I too am reading Paradise Lost. Til We Have Faces is an absolutely wonderful book, but I doubt I’ll get around to reading it again this year. And Travis’ mention of the Canterbury Tales prompts me to encourage everyone to try reading them un-translated once. It really isn’t as hard as you think. As for the rest of my reading this year, I’ll have to throw in some Tolkien, maybe the Lay of Liethian, but I don’t do much planning for my reading list. I tend to have four books going at once because I just pick up whatever looks good whenever it strikes me.
I have a grab-bag of books on my list – many of which are probably not in print anymore or not of interest to your readers.
Books I’ve read since Christmas:
Ruined City, by Nevil Shute (published 1938?) – One of my favorite authors for light entertainement – I found this book at a used book sale. I’ve read most of Shute’s other novels (his most famous are A Town Like Alice and On the Beach). His book always feature an “ordinary hero.”
Brahmin Profit, by Gillis J Harp. A book about Phillips Brooks, a very famous Episcopalian priest at the end of the nineteenth century. His beliefs and education have significant parallels with George MacDonald, whick makes the book of interest to theology/literature students of that period.
The Hidden Story of Narnia: Spiritual Themes in C.S. Lewis’s Fairy Tales (author name withheld) – this is a book proposal for Zossima Press geared to young teen readers.
To be read:
Changing for Good, by James Prochaska et. al. (1994)- Six stages of change to free yourself from bad habits.
Dickens and His Readers: Aspects of Novel Criticism since 1836 – George H. Ford. Literary history published in 1955 by the chairman of English at the University of Rochester, NY.
The Victorian Debate: English Literature and Society 1832-1901. by Raymond Chapman. (1968)
At The Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald (I want to re-read this to prepare for a March PowerPoint presentation at the NY C.S. Lewis Society on the fifteen illustrators of this most frequently republished of MacDonald’s books (I have over 20 different editions of the book).
Planning to finish HPI. Also planning to finish Twilight. Have to get around to reading PD James’ The Private Patient which I’ve had since September. Can’t understand why I haven’t even opened it yet. Will also be reading The Spiritual Brain which I got for Christmas (there’s irony for you!) Also want to re-read The Dark Angel trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, including the last volume which I’m still looking for. Will probably re-read Dracula as per revgeorge. Will get a copy of John Granger’s HPB when it comes out. There’s also a new book out by Patricia McKillip: The Bell at Sealey Head which I’ll get.
I’ve read a few books already this year.
My plans:
Harry Potter – Rowling
The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, & The Lord of the Rings. – Tolkien
The Deathly Hallows Lectures: The Hogwarts Professor Explains the Final Harry Potter Adventure – John Granger*
Harry Potter & Imagination: The Way Between Two Worlds – Travis Prinzi*
Planet Narnia – Michael Ward*
Beyond the Summerland – L. B. Graham*
The Restorer’s Son – Sharon Hinck*
The Restorer’s Journey – Sharon Hinck*
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness: Adventure. Peril. Lost Jewels. And the Fearsome Toothy Cows of Skree – Andrew Peterson*
Probably whatever else I come across during the year.
*Have yet to obtain a copy.
Wow, you have an amazing list of books to read. You’re one of those “thinking book” readers. I have to admire people who chose the hard books to read. I say hard from my perspective. I have “War and Peace” on my bookshelf because it’s a book that I believe I should read. I have so many books to review right now, I’m not even reading the books I want to read. I’ve been given Twilight even tho I have zero desire to read it. My girl friend basically plopped it into my lap. Both our teen daughters have read it as well as the rest of her books plus seen the movie. Still hasn’t given me any desire to crack it open. This is the 2nd time I’ve seen “North! Or Be Eaten” and it sounds like a bizaar title. I’ll have to check it out! Thanks for your suggestions.
Kairanie, I will take your advice and if I ever chance to read the Cantebury Tales, I will attempt the original writing. My TBR pile continues to grow!
Shane, I wanted to encourage you to read Sharon Hinck’s books! They are just as great as her first one.
The first book I’ve finished in 2009 is Dorothy Sayers’ Gaudy Night. I’ve been working my way through a re-read of the Wimsey/Vane novels (it’s been about a decade since I first read them) and am loving them again. So of course I’ll need to go on and read Busman’s Honeymoon soon.
I finally caved in and ordered Harry Potter & Imagination from Amazon yesterday, and am looking forward to its arrival! (I couldn’t resist the ‘buy these two together’ prompt, as I’d been wanting the revision of John’s book). I’m looking forward to Harry Potter’s Bookshelf like everyone else. I got Beedle the Bard for Christmas, and hope to settle into that sometime in the next couple of weeks.
Travis, you’ll love Till We Have Faces. It’s a haunting, wonderful novel that always makes me feel a bit wistful for what else Lewis might have written if he’d lived longer.
I’ve not planned much of my other 2009 reading yet, at least not past January.
I’m still working on my favorite books of 2008 list!
Beth, how totally cool that you’re into the Wimsey/Vane novels. Busman’s Honeymoon is one of my favorite books of all time. That is my idea of true romance, not this gazing endlessly at Edward’s alabaster skin, bronze hairdo and perfect features. And Peter Wimsey is a true gentleman, who would no more think of acting rudely towards his lady than he would of cutting off his own arm. Although I did read something today that talked about the enjoyable banter between Bella and Edward. A possible redeeming quality? I’ll check it out.
I divide Sayers’ detective stories into two: those with and those without Harriet Vane. I think the ones without her are better detective stories, although the ones with her are more emotionally engaging. My favorite of the detective stories is Murder, Must Advertise, closely followed by Five Red Herrings. How about you?
The first book I finished reading this year was Eminem: The Way I Am and I’m reading Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw now. Those are definitely different reads, lol. I also got a copy of Allegory of Love by C.S. Lewis from the library so I’m psyched. I haven’t really made a list yet, but I’ll leave a comment when I’ve made one.
I am looking forward to Harry Potter’s Bookshelf though. I’m assuming that’s the same book as The English Majors Guide to Harry Potter, right?
My reading plans:
Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men-Gregory Maguire
Alice in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
Magic Study, Fire Study-Maria Snyder
Mere Christianity, Till We Have Face, Problem of Pain, etc- C.S. Lewis
Books of Pellinor-Alison Croggon
anything on my bookshelf that didn’t get read last year. *wink*
I’ve finished:
-The Grey King and Silver on the Tree, by Susan Cooper (the last 2 in The Dark Is Rising series, enjoyed it and saw a lot of HP ties)
-The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy (the audio, read by Alan Rickman – fantastic)
Still reading (or listening to):
-The Secret Garden, by Burnett
-Harry Potter and Imagination, by. . . oh, who wrote that?
-The Deathly Hallows Lectures (re-reading, as I somehow had the first one out that wasn’t supposed to be out and was then later revised)
-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (read by Stephen Fry – a much anticipated Christmas present, and most welcome)
-The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis (read by Alex Jennings – each book is read by a different person; so far my favorite was Kenneth Branagh reading The Magician’s Nephew, but that was last year)
-The Other Queen, by Philippa Gregory (about Mary Queen of Scots)
Plan to read:
-The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
-December Boys, by Noonan (bought this a while ago)
-Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old (found this on Beth’s blog and it sounds great, even though Christmas is over, so I ordered it last night)
-Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (I have it out anyway – or something by Jane Austen)
-Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (it’ll be a re-read, but I haven’t picked this one up since Laura was reading it about 10 or 12 years ago)
I also have one that I bought last summer about Benjamin Franklin, but so far I haven’t gotten back into the American history type biographies. Maybe, maybe not.
Pat
RedRocker, how wonderful to meet another Wimsey/Vane fan! I’ve been feeling alone in my wild enthusiasm this week. I’d really forgotten how much I enjoyed these books. And I too find Harriet and Peter’s relationship so much more authentically romantic than so much of what passes for romance these days. I’ve been trying to work up a post along those veins for my blog, although I’ve already waxed way too long there about Gaudy Night this week. I’ve not read the earlier Wimsey novels in about a decade, so it’s hard for me to remember my favorites, though I recall enjoying Murder Must Advertise. I’ve been reading bits and pieces of a good book of literary criticism/reflection on the Wimsey novels (it’s called Conundrums for the Long Weekend — I can’t recall the authors right this moment) but I’m tending to skim the chapters on the novels I’ve not read in a while and reading with more gusto on the Wimsey/Vane books. Have you read Sayers’ non-detective-fiction work? I’m a big fan of Mind of the Maker and I also enjoyed The Man Born to Be King though I confess I’ve not tackled her Dante.
Pat, so glad you’ve ordered Home for Christmas — it’s really a lovely collection, right down to its illustrations. I was afraid it might be out of print. And how wonderful you’re reading Sense and Sensibility this year…or any Austen, for that matter. I almost always re-read one of her books during the winter. I’ve overdue for my umpteenth re-read of Emma so may go for that this winter.
So far this year:
finished Orthodoxy for the 2nd time – Chesterton
The Shack – William Young
The Dip – Seth Godin
just started Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis.
I’m with you Travis on the last one. Why on earth have I not read that one? I opened it up and was surprised to find it was fiction.
Reading through HP out loud with wifey before bed. In the middle of CoS.
Hope to finally read some Flannery O’Connor sometime this year. Have never touched it. Everyone says I should.
I know exactly what you mean about books you don’t plan on reading ending up at the top of the list. Happens to me all the time. *g*
Looks like a great list – happy reading!
More comments later on these fantastic reading lists, but one quick one for now:
Matt J., yes, everyone who tells you that you should read Flannery is correct. Brilliant, jarring stories.
I think my wife is going to slash my book budget since I went on a book buying spree at the end of the year (Darn you Zossima Press for putting out good titles!)
So I’ll have to try what’s at the library or what I can get with interlibrary loan.
In literary analysis:
-Repotting Harry Potter-James Thomas
-Harry Potter’s Bookshelf-John Granger
-Planet Narnia-Micheal Ward
(I’m going to try and find some other Harry Potter analysis too, whatever catches my eye)
More for my entertainment:
-The Space Trilogy-C.S. Lewis (really going to make an effort to read this, hope it’s good)
-His Dark Materials-Phillip Pullman
-Stardust-I’ve heard good things, the library has 3 copies, none are checked out, so Travis thanks for reminding me about it.
-Harry, A History-Melissa Anelli (I need to finish it)
-something by Jane Austen, my wife is warning me that i won’t be able to read it regardless if she has a strong influence on Rowling’s writing. We’ll see.
-Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Also, I have a list of books to read that are Anti-Agriculture/farming to help my wife out with presentations that she gives connecting people to the food they consume and the people that raise it.
I think that list will work for now, probably change it in a week.
Sorry I haven’t commented before; too busy reading.
So far this year I’ve read or listened to The Hobbit, Wuthering Heights, & some book called Harry Potter & Imagination.
I’m in the process of reading or listening to Deathly Hallows Lectures, Does Harry Potter Tickle Sleeping Dragons, Dracula, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, & In Search of the Genesis World.
I have quite a few things planned to read but who knows when & how I’ll get to them.
One of these days I suppose I should read Twilight but I’m not too enthused about it.
Travis said, “Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis. It’s literally a character flaw in me that I have not read this yet. That will be remedied as soon as I’m done with The Enchanted Castle.”
Yes, it is a great character flaw & a major failing but make haste to remedy it & all will be forgiven. Indeed, the agony of knowing how long you’ve missed out on what Lewis called his best work will be punishment enough.
Well, looks like my comment got spammed. We’ll see if this one gets through.
Someone (above) mentioned Little Women
One of these days I’d love to get into a discussion about that book. There is so much that is accepted as normal in that book which is actually quite unusual: the philosophy of Rev. Marsh who was most likely based on Alcott’s father, who was a famous Transcendentalist; the school that Jo and the Professor set up, modeled on one set up by her father; Jo’s rejection of Laurie who seemed perfect for her; the Professor’s rejection of her “pot-boiler” fiction (which made a lot of money for Alcott, until she put it away because of the potential negative influence on teen-age-girls); Jo’s unlikely marriage to Professor Bhaer. It’s funny: when I first read it as a tween, it seemed like an idyllic, old-fashioned coming of age story. Yet it’s full of some really unusual life choices.
Hi everyone
List from 2008,
To re-read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Adventures completed all that I could find at Barnes & Noble or online. To refresh…. Conan Doyle has always been one of my favorites as a kid.
Frankenstein, Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
During Halloween up till Christmas I needed an M. R. James fix of Ghost stories at Christmas time, I’ve continued on with a tradition with my students to provide ghost stories from Charles Dickens (The Signalman. A Christmas Carol) and the great M.R. James (The Ash Tree, A School story, A View from a Hill, Oh Whistle and Ill come to you my lad, and others, to wet their apatite’s and encourage them to read and just have fun.
Travis got me started last year on George MacDonald in 2008 I started with At the Back of the North Wind that lead me to find all I could to get caught up with MacDonald’s works: The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie sequel also The Gray Wolf and Lilith a romance.
John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, I’ve not seen the movie yet.
Harry, a History by Melissa Anelli
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo – Saturday went to see the film.
Started I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith this one will have to flow into ’09.
In 2009 I will attempt to!
I want to get a copy to read this year of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison
The Tales of Beedle the Bard and do plan to re-read Goblet of Fire-J K Rowling again before the July-09 movie primer.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
Julia Cameron Artist’s Way A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Hope we all have a great new year.
Travis, I got your book after Christmas (I did not leave you out- I will set down on a Sat. and turn the phone off and enjoy) Travis, Do you plan to sell an ebook or digital copy of your work, to be read from the computer?
Add to Ross’ To-Be-Read Harry Potter & Imagination: The Way Between Two Worlds – Travis Prinzi*
The first book I’ve finished was Two Towers, most of which I’d read in December. And it was quite an exhausting, yet satisfying read. Currently I’m reading Octavian Nothing, after some John Green. And once I finish it, I will finally begin reading HP & I! I just can’t read two books at the same time, as I discovered last year.
And there are plenty of good and interesting books here; I think some of them might make it to my huge list on my personal blog.
Red Rocker, I find each reread of Little Women brings something new. Alcott was quite the progressive of her day and it certainly shows in LW. She was popular with all ages and both sexes. She completely changed the stiff moralizing childrens’ literature of her day. If you haven’t, I suggest reading a good biography (one not a feminist plaint anachronistically critical of Alcott for not being more progressive than she was). Alcott’s life as well as her writing was way ahead of its time. I also suggest reading her works for adults.
Although not fiction, I recommend:
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation by David A. Price
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Both give a great foundational understanding of our country’s beginnings.
First, a question for you Travis. I listened to the sample of Nadia May’s reading of Paradise Lost. I was curious to hear that she didn’t read the poem with noticeable breaks after each line or really even according to the meter (for example, “disobedience” in that first line of the samle should only be four syllables, “DIS-o-BED-yence”, to fit the meter). I don’t know much about reading poetry, I confess; you and Nadia both have more of a formal training in literature, so I was curious to know what you would say about that.
Next, my list. I’m with Travis on moving books to the top of my list throughout the year. Here are the ones I’m reading now or will be reading soon … the only ones I’m confident I’ll for sure read this year:
* Doris Lessing: Time Bites (essays and reviews); Canopus in Argos: The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (book 4) and The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (book 5)
* Karen Armstrong: A History of God and The Great Transformation
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
* The Kalevala (translated by Keith Bosley)
All more or less for my own entertainment:
Finished:
Harry, A History
HBP read by Jim Dale
Apparently I’m WAY behind on my reading.
My plans for 09′:
Currently reading: Harry Potter and Imagination and some horrible unauthorized Bio on J.K. Rowling… I’m actually correcting it in pencil!!!
Twilight – I feel compelled.
The Alchemist (recommended by a friend)
Harry Potter’s Bookshelf, sounds interesting!
Persuasion (I’m only a few chapters in… )
I really want to finish The Life of Pi, but it’s a HUGE struggle, I don’t find it the LEAST bit interesting despite it being recommended by many.
And I’m sure more books will come along that will push themselves to the front of that list!
Whoa. There are some seriously good ideas for reading recommendations here. What a lot of smart people!! I’m going to keep referring back to these lists when I run out of ideas for what to read next. I never really come up with a reading plan, I just read what interests me next. So far this year, I’ve read _Healing Waters_ by Steve Arterburn. It’s a little cheesy, but I love all that psychotherapy stuff, and I think New Life Ministries has a great, wholesome understanding of integrating faith and psychology.
I’m also working my way through _HP and Imagination_ and really enjoying it. It’s got so MUCH in it, Travis, I’m finding it hard to just breeze through. It’s requiring some deliberate “digestion” time.
Looking forward to discussion here about it.
In addition to Mrs. Piggle Wiggle stories, which I’ve been reading to our older children, our family is attempting some family reading time with _The Jesus Storybook Bible_ which I’m wholeheartedly impressed with. (I just posted on my blog about it if anyone’s interested.) “Fairy tale come true” is how this neat story book is couched.
Chelsea – keep slogging away at Life of Pi. It really does get good.
It is fascinating seeing what all everyone else is reading.
Which gives me an idea.
Travis, how about setting up a post asking people to name a book that they’ve read which had a very strong influence or impact on them (emotionally, intellectually, spiritually or otherwise) and explain why. It might be a book they read recently (e.g. in 2008) or it might be over the span of their whole reading career.
Or it could be a book which they’d most like to recommend to others. Or a book which says the most about them personally. Or a book they would have liked to have written themselves.
There’d have to be some qualifications. It shouldn’t be something seminal, like the Bible (or the Torah or Koran or a source book for other major religions), reason being most of us are already acquainted with those books. It should be a book the reader has personally read. It should be one book, rather than a selection, or a series. So a HP lover would have to choose one of seven.
I think it would be fun and interesting.
Red Rocker, Done. Great suggestion.
Randy, very good question! I haven’t given it a ton of thought, to be honest, but I’ve been reading story-poetry like that since my very earliest literary studies, so I tend to prefer it. Whenever I read The Canterbury Tales out loud, for example, I read them in a similar fashion to Nadia May’s reading.
Any others with experience or training in poetry want to weigh in on this one?
Leanne, this might sound odd, but your comment is one of the most helpful and encouraging comments I’ve read so far about my book. That really was my intent – to have 300 pages that were so packed full of good material that anyone could pick up on a point in almost every page and go on an intellectual or emotional tangent of their own. I tried to avoid “filler” material whenever I could.
My wife loved Life of Pi. I haven’t read it yet.
Currently reading:
-Half Blood Prince (about the 4th time now)
-To Kill a Mockingbird (too many times to count, an all-time fave)
-Moby Dick (absolute all time fave, will probably write about in Red Rocker’s proposed thread)
-Emma (first time; desperately trying to avoid spoilers on this one since the ‘surprise’ ending is so-much talked about)
To be read:
HP-Imagination (started, need to finish, great so far!!)
Just picked up a new translation of Crime and Punishment – very much looking forward to digging into this one. The other translation I’ve read was…lacking
@Chelsea – definitely keep stick with it with Life of Pi – Beginning is slow, but by the end it will be well worth it.
Eric, I tried to avoid knowing what happened, too, but about 30 pages in I realized it was the exact same plot as a movie that I had watched several times (which I found out later was, of course, built on Emma). Once I made that connection, I had the whole plot figured out in about 2 minutes.
Still, I can tell you from someone who knew what was coming, it’s a great read.
Eric, one more comment: Definitely looking forward to your thoughts on Moby Dick. It’s a book that I’ve always pushed off reading, because so many people have such a strong, negative reaction to it. I know it’s a classic, and I’ll get to it, but a little motivation might help
Along the same lines, another blog I follow just posted an interesting link to something called Power Moby-Dick, a website that has the whole text, along with notations and explanations of obscure references.
Regarding reading p0etry–you read it by sentence, not by line (even if the lines rhyme). If you read it line by line it becomes stiff and sing-songy. In reading it by sentence, it reads and flows naturally, and the rhymes will emerge on their own.
Arabella, precisely what I’ve always been taught and preferred.
@Arabella, Thanks for the response. I wonder, is there a difference when talking about oral epic poetry? My understanding is that the sense of meter is so strong in oral epic poetry that you can feel and even anticipate how the line will end. Many of the epithets in Homer like “swift-footed Achilles” and “glorious son of Atreos” or “crafty Odysseus” nicely fill out the last few feet of a line in that meter. These kinds of poems were meant to be sung, so maybe the sing-songy feel was desirable? It would certainly make lines easier for the singer to remember.
Milton was intentionally imitating epic poetry. Wouldn’t it would be great to have recordings of him reading the poem? When I hear various readings of Milton, like Nadia May’s, I just don’t feel the meter. But maybe that’s because I’m not experienced enough with it. I admit, my own reading of Milton is undeniably too stiff! :~)
Thanks, Travis, for mentioning May’s reading and bringing these questions about epic poetry back to the front of my mind! You didn’t say whether you enjoyed Paradise Lost or not. Had you read it before? What did you think of it?
I had not read it before. I loved it. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to read Genesis 1-3 again without thinking about it. While I consider Genesis 1-3 a divinely-inspired text, and Milton not, I think Milton serves as a fascinating and helpful mythological fleshing-out of Genesis 1-3 which is beneficial to anyone whose life is defined by the mythology of those chapters.
Travis, thanks for that Power Moby Dick link. That will definitely soak up a few hours of my time
And yes, as much as I love it, I readily admit the MD is pretty much a love-it-or-hate-it kinda deal, with many falling on the ‘hate it’ side. It can be maddeningly esoteric and dense (if, on the first read-through, one can make it past Chapter 32 – Cetology, then there is hope).
I finished Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne & Chris Haw and The Reason for God by Timothy Keller. My reading list for 2009 will be:
~ At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald (I want to start reading him, I’ve only read The Light Princess so far)
~ Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
~ 1984 by George Orwell
~ Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (as well as the rest of the Lestat series)
~ The Divine Comedy by Dante
~ Paradise Lost by John Milton
~ Harry Potter’s Bookshelf by John Granger
~ Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision by N.T. Wright
This is definitely off-topic as far as fiction goes, but Johnny, I’m definitely looking forward to that new Wright book on justification. Of course, it might mean I need to read Piper’s The Future of Justification first, and I don’t think I’ve ever made it through the entirety of a Piper book. That guy needs an editor.
I never read Piper, but the thought crossed my mind to read his Future of Justification first also. I know N.T. Wright’s book on justification comes out in the U.S. sometime in July, but I have no patience. I preordered my copy from Amazon UK because it comes out in Britain next month.
I love John Piper, but that is one INTENSE man. He spoke at my college a few times and it was always quite an experience. We actually named our dog Piper after him.
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