Reading Plans.

Hello friends. This post is solely dedicated to my reading goals. Last August I made a facebook status inviting my friends to suggest things to read to me. That's actually my favorite use for facebook: I treat it more like data collection than a valid means of communication between people. I have almost 1600 friends, so taking polls is actually both really interesting and often helpful. (especially noting that I have a lot in common with many of my friends).  So- thank you to everyone!

That being said: Here's my proposed list. I have no time table on it as of now, given that in my circumstance I actually like to read, so if I have the book I'll naturally go from there. 

First: before any other goals, I want to do the daily Read- the Bible in 2011. My church here, which is incredibly awesome, Harvest Bible Chapel, has a fairly standard reading plan. The chance to do this everyday with my husband, as well as many other believers is one I'm not going to pass up. So far it's been day 8, and I'm well on track. 

Pastor James began our series "Get Healthy" with the verse in Deuteronomy, where Israel is commanded to love God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength. It was eye opening to me, because as Piper said-  If any of our means of loving God is decreased, our love for God is diminished. (paraphrase kinda...) THe point being that we need to be healthy: with our will, our emotions, our intellect, and our physical bodies. If any of these areas are not surrendered, and not growing, then we cannot love God as fully as we should. 

So my reading list is diverse: it's best to learn about all different kinds of things. And so I have a bunch of different kinds of reading material. 

As always, please, please, please- add suggestions. 

Biographies:

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: Neil White

Brother Andrew

Hudson Taylor

The Hiding Place

Dietrich Bonhoiffer

Julia Child: my life in france

Hitler

Freud: A Life For Our Time Peter Gay

The Nazi Officer’s Wife Edith Hahn Beer & Susan Dworkin

Fiction

David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Neil Gaiman - Smoke and Mirrors

Two Rivers by T. Greenwood 

the pillars of the earth by ken follett

CS Lewis: Perelandra

CS Lewis: Great Divorce

CS Lewis: Til we have faces

CS Lewis: Screwtape Letters

CS Lewis: Chronicles of Narnia

Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky: brothers K

Dostoevsky: notes from the underground

Percy Jackson Series: Rick Riordan

Good Omens: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet

Letters from Earth: Mark Twain

Enders Game

1984

Brave New World

Lord of the Flies

Atlas Shrugged

Hitchhikers Guide 

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Non-Fiction

Standing Naked in the Shower by Nathan Bryce

CS Lewis: Mere Christianity

CS Lewis: the four loves

CS Lewis: the problem of pain

CS Lewis: a grief observed

CS Lewis: surprised by Joy

Darwin: Voyage of the Beagle

Malcolm Gladwell: The tipping point

Lewis: abolition of Man

Ravi: Jesus Among Other Gods

Ravi: Has Christianity Failed You?

Ravi: The End of Reason

Ravi: From Oprah to Chopra

Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics (Dana Foundation Series on Neuroethics)

Moral Minds: Marc Hauser

Poetry

Elliot: The Four Quartets

Elliot: Choruses from the Rock