I was tagged by a friend, so here goes.
1. One book that changed your life:
Phillip Gulley and James Mulholland, “If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person.”
2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Mark Twain, “Huckleberry Finn.”
3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
A Beginner’s Guide to Shipbuilding (I stole this from G.K. Chesterton)
4. One book that made you laugh:
Sara Vowell, Assassination Vacation
5. One book that made you cry:
Weisel, Night.
6. One book that you wish had been written:
The Church of the Nazarene’s Ascent to Liberalism: Social Justice As True Holiness
(It doesn’t have to exist, right?)
7. One book that you wish had never been written:
Left Behind, Numbers 1 through 193 (and counting)
8. One book you’re currently reading:
Philip Yancey, Soul Survivor: How Seven Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive The Church.
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
David Herbert Donald’s Lincoln
We’ve been going through a Yancy video series in Sunday School during our summer session – The Bible Jesus Read.
Sarah Vowell’s name has popped up in a couple of places now. Sounds like an interesting book. And I have Primo Levi’s account of his experience during the Holocaust at home. I keep intending to read it, but I have a bad case of book backlog.
That book on the Nazarenes will be written about the same time as Missouri Explosion: How the LCMS Became the Greatest Soul-Winning Denomination in History.
Yes, it’s a bit late to be commenting. But I found the audiobook version of Donald’s Lincoln an easy way to get what I wanted from the book. (I wanted that much, and not more, really.)