Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Summer Reading

Summer Reading

Sometimes my family believes that I live just to read…I always have my nose in a book or in the Kindle!  Bob wonders if I ever read any ‘redemptive” books and my daughter wants the titles of the best fiction.  I do love to read and yes, some of my reading is “redemptive”, but a lot of times it is just “good” reading where I don’t really have to think.  All I have to do is dive in and wallow around in the story.

Here is my summer plan and what is on my reading table and in my Kindle to wade through these next few months.  I also have some “books I don’t have to think about” scheduled as well!

My summer reading…
Chasing God   Angie Smith
Aha   Kyle Idleman
Undaunted: Daring to Do What God Calls You to Do   Christine Caine
Passion   Louie Giglio
Learning to Walk in the Dark   Barbara Brown Taylor
A New Kind of Normal   Carol Kent
Pursue the Intentional Life   Jean Fleming
Finding Spiritual Whitespace: Awakening Your Soul to Rest   Bonnie Gray
Rhinestone Jesus: Saying Yes to God When Sparkly Safe Faith is No Longer Enough   Kristen Welch
Adventure of Ascent: Field Notes from a Lifelong Journey   Luci Shaw

What you really need to read…
Now here are the ones that you really need to read.  These are the ones that I give away any time I get a chance, and if I were rich, I would see that everyone of you had copies!

Anything: The Prayer that Unlocked My God and My Soul   Jennie Allen
Restless: Because You Were Made for More   Jennie Allen
Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption   Katie Davis
You’re Made for a God-Sized Dream: Opening the Door to All God Has for You   Holly Gerth
Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes   Shauna Neiquest
Freefall to Fly: A Breathtaking Journey Toward a Life of Meaning   Rebekah Lyons
Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World   Tsh Oxenreider
Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World   Bob Goff
All In: You Are One Decision Away from a Totally Different Life   Mark Batterson
Surprised by Motherhood: Everything I Never Expected about Being a Mom   Lisa-Jo Baker
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women   Sarah Bessey

Fun…
And these…well, they are just plain laugh-out-loud-tickle-your- ribs-can’t-wait-to-share-with-your-BFF books:

Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn   Melanie Shankle
The Antelope in the Living Room: The Real Story of Two People Sharing One Life   Melanie Shankle
A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet: Southern Stories Faith, Family, and Fifteen Pounds of Bacon   Sophie Hudson

Just good stories:
The Invention of Wings   Sue Monk Kidd (fiction)
Unwritten: A Novel   Charles Martin (fiction) or anything he writes!

Good beach/pool reads
Anything these authors write is good reading!
Anne Rivers Siddon
Dorothea Benton Frank
Erin Hilderbrand
Marybeth Whalen
Patti Callahan Henry
Mary Kay Andrews

So…do you have your list?  Enjoy!!!

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