What’s on my nightstand? – May ‘09

The fourth Tuesday of the month means that it’s time for the “What’s on my nightstand?” carnival at 5 Minutes for Books.

This month I have my regulars – I continue my chronological read through the scriptures as well as Streams in the Desert and The Intellectual Devotional: American History. I am also repeating I Was Right On Time since I didn’t get to it this month.

There are several newbies this time.  Handling Sin is one that I stumbled on by accident.  It has great reviews on Amazon, but I’m having trouble getting interested.  Time will tell if I can make it through all 600+ pages.

During the last class I took in the spring semester, we read an excerpt from a book by Miroslav Volf, a professor of theology at Yale Divinity School.  It was so interesting that I immediately began looking for more of his work and found Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace at the library.  After just two chapters I returned it and ordered my own copy, knowing that I will want to mark this one up as I read.  I can’t wait to start it, but I need to try to finish the Malone book first since it is a library book.

I love American history, and A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America (how’s that for a title?) was another of those I stumbled on by accident.  It will be after the Volf book.

Last month I read most of the books I had on my list.   You can read my review of The Great Eight here. Here are my thoughts on Angels & Demons. The Great Gatsby was the read for this month’s Classics Bookclub, and my review for that one is here.  I also finished the King Raven trilogy, but I haven’t posted my review of Tuck yet…it’s on my to-do list, though.  What a fun series!

There are many other lists and reviews today at 5 Minutes for Books.  I find something almost every month that I simply must read!

Encourage one another,