VT Christian Reading Challenge discussion

Hi all! Happy New Year! Anyone want to share their stack for January?

I have started:

Chosen for “a book with a one-word title”

The Life and Diary of David Brainard: Missionary to Indians for “A book by or about a missionary”

The Silver Chair for “A book by C. S. Lewis or J. R. R. Tolkien”

and

The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming for “A book published in 2016”

I’ll be starting my winter semester in seminary. I’m going to try to keep up with other reading as well.
a book your pastor recommends
a book on Christian living
a book published in 2023
and a biography

Here's what I'm reading in January..

1. A book about Christian living - The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children, by Stormie Omartian

3. A classic novel - Middlemarch, by George Eliot

99. A book about ancient history - The Lost Continent of Mu, by James Churchward (controversial, as many people don't believe it, but others do)

10. A book for children - Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder - a reread... and I haven't actually started it yet as I need to go retrieve my copy from my cargo trailer...

January..at this point

A biography

I have started Live No Lies by John Mark Comer as the Men's Group is about to do a study based on it.

I'm reading another book I got through NetGalley - a Christian living book by an Irish woman... it is Braving the Thin Places: Celtic Wisdom to Create a Space for Grace, by Julianne Stanz. Interesting ideas... I'm still trying to get used to the concept of "thin places."

Here's what I finished in January:

A book more than 100 years old - The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
A book for children - Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
A historical book - The Indigo Girl, by Natasha Boyd
A book you own but have never read - Calico Captive, by Elizabeth George Speare
A book with at least 400 pages - Middlemarch, by George Eliot
A memoir - The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir, by Dee Williams

Best: Middlemarch
Worst: none of the above
Surprise: Turn of the Screw - surprised I got through it this time

This month I finished
A book about Christian living Life with Jesus: A Discipleship Course for Every Christian
A biography 5 Puritan Women: Portraits of Faith and Love
A book your pastor(professor) recommends The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story
A mystery or detective novel Driving Force
A book about a current issue 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality

Thank you Linda for jumping on that.

Best: Delusion by Laura Gallier. So good but there is a lot talk about suicide which was hard for me to get through. The visualizing of the spiritual warfare made this book good. This one is a little light of Theology but still good.

Worse: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. This book was a mess and I read it for a book club. The book was supposed to be a social critique but in a magical world where the world building had nothing.

Surprise:Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. The main character became increasingly unreliable as the book goes on which was shocking to me.