What are you reading?

Jonodude · 02-17-2011, 07:45 AM

I never got beyond reading A Wrinkle in Time. Are the sequels worthwhile?

So, even though I've been wanting to explore other novels on my "want-to-read" list, I was craving some Dostoevsky again and picked up Demons (apparently sometimes translated as The Possessed). I'm not too far into it yet.

**Role Modlin** · 02-17-2011, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Jonodude

I never got beyond reading A Wrinkle in Time. Are the sequels worthwhile?

I think they are.

**Role Modlin** · 02-17-2011, 08:32 AM

Currently reading several textbooks for classes and Slave by John MacArthur.

**Role Modlin** · 02-17-2011, 08:35 AM

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I'm reading about a dozen commentaries on Amos and tons of textbooks...

-Ashes of Victory, book 9 of David Weber's Honor Harrington series. Basically, Horatio Hornblower in space. My favorite fiction at the moment.

-Just finished Plowing in Hope by David Bruce Hegeman and When the Kings Come Marching In by Richard Mouw. Both were on how Christians should interact with culture. Mouw's was far better, but very dated and incomplete. Hegeman's was at times infuriatingly elitist.

-The NIV Application Commentary on Hebrews, by Donald Guthrie, which is awesome so far.

-Recently finished The Baptist Heritage by H. Leon McBeth (awesome book) and What It Mean to Be Free, a history of the Evangelical Free Church by Calvin Hanson (not so awesome).
-Recently finished He Who Gives Life, a systematic theology of the Holy Spirit by Graham Cole, my systematics professor

-Still in the middle of John Frame's Apologetics to the Glory of God and working my way back through Tolkien's Silmarillion again.

Somehow...I missed this post last month.

I thoroughly enjoyed Guthrie's Hebrews commentary. It was one of my textbooks for my undergrad degree.

**meatfinger** · 02-26-2011, 09:00 AM

Most certainly. I actually thought that A Wind in the Door was better than AWIT. I didn't care for A Swiftly Tilting Planet as much, but it was still a pretty good book.

**Role Modlin** · 02-26-2011, 09:09 AM

The Christian Atheist - Craig Groeschel
Plan B: What To Do When God Doesn't Show Up The Way You Thought He Would - Pete Wilson

**DaGeek** · 02-26-2011, 09:27 AM

Just finished The Elusive Quest for Growth by William Easterly. Good read.

**beanbag** · 02-26-2011, 11:39 AM

to hop on the madeleine l'engle train, i love her work. some books i love more than others, but overall, she is one of my heroes. many waters is also part of the wrinkle in time set--it's about sandy and dennys, but it covers the same ideas of time and space that the other books cover. also, an acceptable time is considered part of the set too, at least according to the people that make boxed sets. it's about meg & calvin's daughter poly, but again...it's about time and space.

i am currently reading middlemarch by george eliot. i took a break from it for a while and reread around the world in 80 days for the zillionth time.

MrCrabby · 02-26-2011, 05:04 PM

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Just finished God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut. Have started The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams, and will also be starting Dexter By Design by Jeff Lindsay sometime next week.

Finshed Dexter, read Animal Farm for the first time, and just started Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K. Dick.

Gwenny · 03-03-2011, 11:03 PM

I'm doing the 50 books in 2011 challenge so I've been reading:

Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Eyre

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

A Tale of Three kings: A Study in Brokeness by Gene Edwards
I am America and So Can You

Currently Reading:
The Grievous Demise of Mr. Whitley Rackham by Colin Meloy from The Decemberists.
(This was only released to 200 people, and I got #60. It's awesome).

**Role Modlin** · 03-04-2011, 08:38 AM

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

**beanbag** · 03-08-2011, 09:47 PM

i just finished the forgotten garden by kate morton, and am now a little way into daniel deronda by george eliot.

**meatfinger** · 03-08-2011, 11:00 PM

L'Engle - Many Waters

Pre-Ex-Girlfriend · 03-14-2011, 06:53 PM

I'm currently reading The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford. An expose on the funeral service first published in 1963 and revised/updated in 1996. So far it's fascinating.

Than · 03-14-2011, 07:22 PM

I've heard about that! I'd love to read that sometime.

Right now I'm reading The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson. A bit disjointed, but fascinating.