Reading

Since moving to Portland three-ish months ago, I have gotten back into the habit of reading. It’s been good to be amid pages of characters, paragraphs exploring ideas, and feeling accomplished at the end of the last page. It has been good to love reading again.

The past year or two have been full of books, but they were by in large books I felt I needed to read: books about the emerging church, about pop culture, Theology, philosophy, and anything else that would make sure people knew that I was a smart “hip” Christian.

Ok, so that might be a bit of a hyperbole, but you get the idea.

I’m just stoked to be looking for new books that I might enjoy simply because they are good books. Most of the reading I have done on these three months has been fiction (and reading a good story is just so much fun, something I have forgotten), but I can feel my brain once more yearning for all sorts of books on all sorts of topics, maybe even some theology tomes once again… maybe.

Reading is a discipline that I believe is healthy, wholesome, and important for my heart. This is a discipline I want to re-cultivate in my life, keep till I die, and pass on to as many minds as I can.

Books from the past three months:

Fiction:

• “Interview with the Vampire”, Anne Rice
• “Tale of the Body Thief”, Anne Rice
• “Memnoch the Devil”, Anne Rice
• “Mariette in Ecstasy”, Ron Hansen
• “Hunters of Dune”, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• “Lullaby”, Chuck Palahniuk
• “The Electric Michelangelo”, Sarah Hall
• “A wrinkle in Time” Madeleine L’Engle (reread)
• “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, J.K. Rowling (reread)
• “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince”, J.K. Rowling (reread)
• “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, J.K. Rowling
• “Hocus Pocus”, Kurt Vonnegut (finished)

Non-fiction

• “Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs” Chuck Klosterman
• “Story”, Steven James (finished)
• “On Writing”, Stephen King (finished)
• “Pornified”, Pamela Paul (currently reading)

On Deck

• “The Idiot”,  Fyodor Dostievsky
• “The Brothers Karamazov”, Fyodor Dostievsky
• “Touched with Fire”, Kay Redfield Jamison (to finish)

Maybe I should start doing reviews on some of these…