I thought I’d start out this Monday morning with a list of books I read recently and my summer reading list since it’s almost summer.  

Good books I’ve read recently:

Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore.  Great nonfiction book about a friendship between a homeless man and an art dealer.  Wonderful and  inspiring message.  

Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv  An interesting book that highlights various research that shows how spending time in nature affects kids positively and how most kids are spending too much time indoors.  I enjoyed some of the concepts in this book even though it is one of those intellectual books with lots of research and facts thrown at the reader.  A good reminder that our kids need to be outside!

Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup  A memoir about how she lost her husband and became a chaplain for the Maine State Game Wardens.  The book includes various stories about how she helped the wardens deal with search and rescue incidents and the inevitable finding-dead-people-in-the-woods stories.  I learned way too much about how people die in the forest, mostly because of drugs and alcohol.  It wasn’t my favorite memoir, but her writing was good even if I didn’t agree with her theology. 

My Summer Reading Series: 

• Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
• Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
• The Hole in the Gospel by Richard Stearns, president of World Vision
• Created for Commitment by A. Wetherell Johnson
• Redeemed Love by Francine Rivers
• Remembered by Tamera Alexander

I’ll be updating you on these books as I finish them.  And if a baby comes in the meantime the whole readiing thing will go to pot, but until then…

Happy Reading!