Six months ago, I posted from the depths of a crazy long to-read list. When the pile of books gets that high, what happens? Here’s what went down.
Linked titles are books I read and posted about on the blog.
- The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois – The Chaplain ended up picking up this one first. He confirmed within the first few pages that it was good, but the paperback copy I picked up has major formatting issues – the print is tiny and the spacing is terrible. We have discussed getting the audio book instead, since the copy I have is nearly unreadable. I still plan to come back to it in some form or another.
- The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, by Richard Rohr
- Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation, by Richard Rohr – I had to return it to the library before I had a chance to read it.
- Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Richard Rohr
- The Secret Lives of Color, by Kassia St. Clair
- Healing is a Choice: Ten Decisions That Will Transform Your Life & Ten Lies That Can Prevent You From Making Them, by Stephen Arterburn – I started this one and just never really got into it. I’m no longer at a crisis point, and I’m finding the answers on my own, so it didn’t seem as important to finish the book. A lot of the ideas were ones I’d encountered in other books. Plus the anecdotes about other people’s trauma were difficult to read. I brought it back to the library midwa.
- Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, by Dava Sobel – I tried to read this three times and could not get past the first few pages. The slow start combined with the idea of sending your daughter off to a convent rather than to college rubbed me the wrong way. Usually if I’m having trouble getting into a book, I’ll give it at least till the end of the first chapter, but I had too many other books to read and I had run out of renewals for this one at the library, so I returned it.
- The Comet’s Tale: A Novel About Sojourner Truth, by Jacqueline Sheehan
- The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom
- The Holy Longing, Ronald Rohlheiser
- The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd
The beauty of a reading list is that it isn’t static. I ended up adding a ton of titles, but still made it through a lot of the books on my list.
Do you keep track of your reading over time? Does your reading pile ever shrink or do you keep adding to it?
