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| This picture has nothing to do with reading books, but everything to do with Texas, so I find it appropriate (and deliciously enticing). |
Upon our first summer outing, my sister and I marched up to the desk, signed up for the summer reading club, and proceeded carefully through the children's area choosing our books. I couldn't wait to get home and devour them all: to follow Anne's journey into womanhood in Anne of Green Gables, to solve the mystery before Nancy Drew did, to discover what creative cure Mrs. Piggle Wiggle would think of next.
I still love to go to the library, now with my own children. I pull books from the shelves and, as only a mom can do, drone on and on to my boys about how wonderful this book is or how great that one is. They've found their own delights-- Ribsy and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Henry & Mudge and I Spy--which delights me to no end of course.
Summer's coming, which means one thing: reading! Reading with my boys, reading the stack of books beside my bed, and reading the books that have been recommended to me. Reading, reading, reading! Books, books, books!
I can't wait.
Are you looking for recommendations for your own summer reading? The following list is not comprehensive (it doesn't contain any fiction), but these are books that I recommend quite often:
My All-Time Favorite
Books
Unbroken by Laura
Hillenbrand
Peace Child by Don
Richardson
The Hiding Place by
Corrie Ten Boom
Heaven by Randy
Alcorn
The Pursuit of God
by A.W. Tozer
Faithful Women &
Their Extraordinary God by Noel Piper
Discipline: The Glad
Surrender by Elisabeth Elliot
A Path Through
Suffering by Elisabeth Elliot
Bonhoeffer by Eric
Metaxas
My Utmost for His
Highest by Oswald Chambers
Books That Have Been
Helpful in Ministry
Transforming
Discipleship by Greg Ogden
Brokenness, Surrender,
& Holiness by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Spiritual Warfare
by Jerry Rankin
Open Heart, Open Home
by Karen Mains
In the Name of Jesus
by Henri Nouwen
Margin by Richard
Swenson
A Praying Life by
Paul Miller
Leading on Empty
by Wayne Cordeiro
Books that Have Been
Helpful in Marriage and Family
Treasuring God in Our
Traditions by Noel Piper
Grace-Based Parenting
by Dr. Tim Kimmel
The Excellent Wife by
Martha Peace
Choosing to Cheat
by Andy Stanley
The Meaning of
Marriage by Tim Keller
What books are on your all-time favorite list?
