Welcome back to Reading Thursday! Reading is my favorite, so if it’s yours, too, pull up a comfy chair and let’s talk books!
What I finished
I fully finished Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools by Tyler Staton. This one is a re-read for me, and so good that I’m sure I’ll be reading it yet again. As you probably guessed, it’s about prayer. I think it has a great balance of talking about both the spiritual aspects and the practicalities, the benefits and the obstacles. If you’re looking for to cultivate a better prayer practice, this is a great book to read.
I also finished Ruby by Lauraine Snelling. This was OK, a sweet little historical about sisters heading out to the Dakotas to receive an inheritance from their dying father. Who abandoned them after their mother died. It’s also Christian fiction, but frankly, the Christian references felt tacked on, like maybe there was a secular version published as well. It won’t be a favorite by any stretch, but it was an easy read for a challenge category. (The category was a book with a gemstone in the title.)
What I started
For my next spiritual book, I did go with Revelation for the Rest of Us by Scot McKnight. I’m enjoying it so far.
For the library challenge ghostwritten category, I had been thinking I’d read Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry, but luckily I googled to find out who the ghost writer was, and it turns out there wasn’t one! He actually wrote it all himself. I’m still interested in reading this sometime, but for now I picked Born a Crime by Trevor Noah instead. I easily found that it was ghostwritten by Tanner Colby. I’m also enjoying this one. His stories about his childhood (I’m just now getting to his high school graduation) are mostly funny, and in between are his observations about growing up under apartheid, and just interesting notes about the culture in South Africa.
What I’m still reading
Nothing! Well, I guess technically I’m still reading the same Bible.
How about you? What are you reading this week? Let’s chat in the comments!