VT Christian Reading Challenge discussion

Hi all! Curious if anyone is making their lists for January. Anyone want to share some of their planned reads?

Here’s a few I’m in the middle of and plan to finish,
Write Better: A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality
Aging with Grace: Flourishing in an Anti-Aging Culture
I want to finish Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith
Soul Raging
The House on Foster Hill

Sounds pleasant! I don't remember much about Truths We Confess, but I do appreciate Sproul and I love books on writing!

I am still working my way through Journey to the Centre of the Earth and will probably pick up Around the World in 80 Days next.

My top two for the new year are:

Susanna Wesley
Living by the Book

Two I have on hold for later this month are:

Forgiving What You Can't Forget (published 2020)
I Stand at the Door and Knock (Zondervan)

I have a bunch of fiction planned for January. Right now, these are what I'm planning for this challenge:

People Like Her
Elantris
Murder on the Orient Express
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

I'm also going to read The Cross of Christ.

Amber, I meant to read Write Better: A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality in 2020 and never got around to it, so I've moved it to this year's challenge. I hope you enjoy it! I've heard it's great.

Amanda, I’m really enjoying it, it’s got a lot of practical and insightful tips! I’ve not read anything by Agatha Christie or Brandon Sanderson, they look interesting!

Christabelle, are you reading Susanna’s biography? Is it the recent one, I think it’s called “Susie”?

Susie is Spurgeon's wife. I read that already and it was good! This is the biography of John and Charles's mother, founders of the Methodists written by Arnold A. Dallimore. I've been meaning to read it for a while!

On a secondary note, I'm not sure how to link books. I suspect it might have to do with me being on a mobile device. Is there a trick to it? I might be able hop on the laptop later and try from there.

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Ohhhhhhh! Yes wrong Susanna 🙈. I read a short bio of Susanna Wesley in Tim Challies book Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms. Dallimore’s bio looks interesting too!

(To link books in the comments, there’s a ‘add book/author’ right above this comment box, and you just search, then add it)

I loved Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms very much! I have always appreciated Susanah's legacy and was curious to know more about her. I decided I'd see what more I could glean!

Do you have any other recommendations for women of faith? I've pulled from Elisabeth Elliot and Amy Carmichael in recent years and read a few Janet Benge biographies to the kids

I’ll confess, I am not a good biography reader, but i work on reading 2 in a year. I read Becoming Elisabeth Elliot which was great! There will be a second volume coming out, since this one covered her life until she moved back to America. I’ve read Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness and Reformation Women: Sixteenth-Century Figures Who Shaped Christianity's Rebirth.

On my list for this year are 12 Faithful Women: Portraits of Steadfast Endurance and Hearts of Fire: Eight Women in the Underground Church and Their Stories of Costly Faith and for a longer biography I’m thinking about A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael or Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist.

We have enjoyed the Christian heroes series too! My daughter has also enjoyed these https://www.goodreads.com/series/86229.

Thank you so much! A Chance to Die is one of my favorites! I think I'll see if my library carries Fierce Convictions.

Biographies are some of my favorites, but finding a good author makes a difference. What genres do you tend to read?

I primarily read Christian living, theology and Christian fiction.

I am just starting to read Christian fiction again. I have planned to reread Mark of the Lion Trilogy by Francine Rivers and just read Daughter of Rome by Tessa Afshar. Lynn Austin and Janette Oke are also favorites.

Nice! I’ve read one, a biblical fiction, by Lynn Austin and enjoyed it.

Was it about Hezekiah? Gods and Kings was pretty good.

Yes that was it!