I love reading, probably as much as I love sports, which means a perfect weeknight would be working out or playing a sport and then curling up on the couch with a blanket, tea, and a book. Felicity once asked me if I read a book a week. I didn’t have an answer for her at the time so last year I kept track of the books I read. I read 33 books in 2006. My goal is to read more and more every year, which of course means that I will need to research speed-reading soon because I know that I’m not going to get any more down time in my life anytime soon. A Relevant and Radiant magazine writer named Alissa (www.tomandalissa.com) blogs monthly on the books she read. I dig that. So here’s my try at it. For the past year, I will simply rate them numerically. Beginning now, in 2008, I will post the monthly books I read at the end of the month with my rating and a short review for each. My Rating Scale: 1-2 = Good Enough to Finish but that’s about it 3-4= Just okay 5-6= Pretty Darn Good 7-8= Delicious read, Almost everyone should read 9-10= One of the best books I have read, recommended to everyone 2007 Books 1. Everybody Wants to Go To Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die by David Crowder 5 2. Ordering Your Private World by Gordon McDonald 4 3. Rediscovering Church by Bill and Lynne Hybels 6 4. They Like Jesus But Not The Church by Dan Kimball 6 5. Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne 10 6. The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning 9 7. Sex God by Rob Bell 7
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver 8
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards 6
- 9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life by Dr. Henry Cloud 1.5
- Grace, Eventually by Anne Lamott 7
- Marriage-A Two Part Invention by Madeline L’Englert 9
- 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman 3
- Chasing Francis by Ian Morgan Cron 6
- Fit to be Tied by Bill and Lynne Hybels 6
- Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts by Les and Leslie Parott 7
- Who You Are When No One is Looking by Bill Hybels 3
- Feeling For Bones by Bethany Pierce 6
- The Next Gen Librarian’s Survival Guide by Rachel Singer Gordon 9
- The Most Important Year in A Woman’s Life: What Every Bride Needs to Know by Susan Devries and Bobbie Wolgemuth 5
- Atticus by Ron Hansen 8
- Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science by Priscilla Shontz 6
- Captivating by Stasi and John Elderidge 5
- Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Maire MacDonald 7
- The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan 4
- The First 90 Days of Marriage by Eric and Leslie Ludy 4
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Alboom 5
- Gilead by Marylianne Robinson 10
- Integrity by Henry Cloud 7
- Radical Reformission by Mark Driscoll 6
- Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 8
- Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn 4
- Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller 5
- History of Love by Nicole Krauss 10
- Transformation Soup by SARK 6.5
- A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis 6
- Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 5
- Holes by Louis Sachar 8
Book that I began but was so disappointed that I quit reading it at page 70: The Almost Noon by Alice Sebold My Favorite Books of 2007 are: - History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- Gilead by Marylianne Robinson
- Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne
- The Next Gen Librarian’s Survival Guide by Rachel Singer Gordon
- The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan
- Atticus by Ron Hansen
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
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