Comments on: january good reads

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:59:32 +0000

terrific title! I am already recommending it to people- glad I have a release date to share now.

By: Al Hsu

Al Hsu — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:05:11 +0000

FYI, we have finalized the title/subtitle of the Tim Muehlhoff book as Marriage Forecasting: Changing the Climate of Your Relationship One Conversation at a Time. Releasing Nov. 2010.

By: Christy

Christy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:16:55 +0000

Hi Jessica,

Thanks for a great selection of good books!

I just finished finished The Old Curiousity Shop (Dickens) and am on the last four pages of When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting Yourself…Or the Poor. EXCELLENT book–great relevance for: urban ministry, international relief development, and people leading/directing/going on short term mission trips. SO good.

I’ve also just started Gifted to Lead by Nancy Beach (I assume you’ve heard of this? Definitely worth picking up if you haven’t.)

And I’m slowly going through Andrew Murray’s Raising Your Children for Christ. It’s very good, and really relevant for where I am in parenting. (I think I told you about this one.) It’s basically an easy-to-read, devotional-style, practical theology for Christian parenting. It goes through the scripture narrative and draws practical parenting frameworks from each one.

Christy

By: Bethany K.

Bethany K. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:37:17 +0000

I wish I had more time to read! I did just finish the 4th book in the Uglies series by Scott Westerfield. Great, entertating, thought provoking teen/young adult fiction. Last night I picked up Mindless Eating to give that book another go. I tried reading it before and got sidetracked by fiction as I often do when I try to read non-fiction. I just got in the mail today “Green Smoothie Revolution” by Victoria Boutenko which I bought mostly for the recipes but will read through the additional content sometime this week. I also got in the mail today “Make it Fast, Cook it Slow” by Stephanie O’Dea. She has a great blog for slow cooker recipes but I find having my recipes in a cookbook does me more good then online. Looking forward to trying lots out of this book.

By: Una

Una — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:09:19 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation about Aimee Semple McPherson. It does my heart good to read that your read Bobby Clinton’s book, “Making of a Leader.” I miss him!

I am reading “What the Dog Saw” by Malcolm Gladwell. It’s a compendium of articles/essays that he wrote for The New Yorker. I just picked up “Making it Stick” – a book about communication. I hear it’s great. I’ve read part of the introduction. That’s about it for me. Happy reading!