Hitting the books

I like to read. Always have. Even before attending school I had a well-used library card. Family members remember seeing my nose stuck in a book at all times.

While these days I'm more likely to get my textual fix from the daily newspaper, a few magazines, and an ever-growing number of online news sources, I still love a good book.

Books by Family Members:

My wife completed her first book:

Women and the Authority of Scripture.

My sister Karen wrote some cookbooks and a nice little gift book:

Dinner Party Cookbook
Kids Are Cookin'
Meals Like Mom Used to Make
Joy of Sisters

My brother-in-law, Dr. Charles Marsh, is a journalism professor at the University of Kansas:

A Quick and Not Dirty Guide to Business Writing
Public Relations: A Values Driven Approach

Heck, even my nephew Barrett Brown is in print, with a funny exposé of Creationism:

A Flock of Dodos


Kendra's Reading List for
International Baccalaureate:

Kendra is working towards an International Baccalaureate diploma at high school. The literature program requires some impressive selections.

Junior year:
Catch-22 (Heller)
Candide (Voltaire)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
Gulliver's Travels (Swift)
The Divine Comedy (Dante)
No Exit (Sartre)
Metamorphosis (Kafka)

Senior year:
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
The Color Purple (Walker)
The English Patient (Ondaatje)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn)
Poetry and non-fiction

My Reading Lists from Recent Years

What I Read in 2009

Dreams From My Father (Obama)

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Meacham)

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Brooks)

The God That Failed (ed. Crossman)

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Goodwin)

Galápagos (Vonnegut)

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (McWhorter)

What I Read in 2008

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (Menard)

Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights (Ivins, Dubose)

The Axemaker's Gift (Ornstein and Burke)

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (Sorensen)

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Burke)

What I Read in 2007

Measuring the World (Kehlmann)

Faith and Politics (Danforth)

Flock of Dodos (Brown and Alston)

The Plot Against America (Roth)


What I Read in 2006

Truman (McCullough)

Becoming Justice Blackmun (Greenhouse)

Pompeii (Harris)

What I Read in 2005

The United States Of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy (Reid)

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Isaacson)

Rio Grande (ed. Reid)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Rowling)

The Giver (Lowry)

What I Read in 2004

The Da Vinci Code (Brown)

Means of Ascent (Caro)

Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned (Friedman)

Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities (Robbins)

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Truss)

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Stewart et al.)

What I Read in 2003

Theodore Rex (Morris)

What if Jesus Had Never Been Born? (Kennedy and Newcombe)

United Methodism@Risk (Howell)

Beowulf (tr. Heaney)

Master of the Senate (Caro)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)

Flyboys (Bradley)

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (Franken)


Old Favorites

Catch-22 (Heller)

 

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