Book list resolutions aren’t nearly as impressive as a year-in-review list of reading, but with great intention, these are the books I hope to finish or read from the beginning. As usual, its a mix of theology, art, and business.
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
(I’d also like to take this moment to put in a plug for Shelfari, an amazingly well-designed site intended to help readers organize, discuss and share their library titles with friends. Timothy Gray, a friend who built the initial Portland Studios site, was integrally involved in the redesign. My incomplete shelf here.)
Joshua Keel
Great list. I received the complete short stories of Flannery O’Connor as a graduation gift, so I’m anxious to read the four or so I haven’t read yet (she didn’t want them published; I’m pretty sure they were published posthumously). Peace Like a River is probably the book I got most excited about in 2008, especially as I look back on it. In fact, I was just thinking about it the other day and how amazing it was.
Also, So Brave, Young and Handsome is fantastic. I can’t wait for Leif Enger’s next novel! Hope you are well. We should talk sometime.
Susan
I like the new look of your website! (and thanks for the sermon link.) By the way, I started the book on Jonathan Edwards by Marsden last year. (It’s really good, but it’ll take me a while!) Sinclair Ferguson mentioned it in a sermon last year as one of his favorites….so much so, that he decided not to read the last chapter, because he didn’t want it to end!. A few months back he told his congregation that the last time he was home in Scotland he went into his library to look at books, and his bookmark is still placed at the last chapter! Hope we all enjoy and learn from this volume.