All About Books discussion

This will be for all the books I don't read this year on my TBR will move onto the next year including books for reading challenges I am doing and more.

Good luck Amber.

Thanks Alannah you too. :)

I plan to do my reading for pleasure reading challenge again where I read 1 or more books a week until the end of the year. This includes library books, ebooks, books I own, and audio books with the ebooks library too.

Great challenge Amber!

How is your Bible reading going on? Did you finish it this year or will you continue also next year?

Good luck with your 2015 challenge ;-)

Thanks LauraT.

Dely I finished reading the bible this year back on December 27th. I'll probably do the bible reading challenge again for 2015. I just did it this year because my church wanted us all to read it together as a church for the whole year. If they don't do it again, I'll do it myself.

That's impressive to get through the whole Bible in a year Amber! I've read most of it, but it took me 2 1/2 years. Some of the elaborate, very lengthy prescriptions and descriptions of the temple bogged me down for a while. I also had a hard time getting through some of the conquering bloodbath parts. Lots of the Old Testament I don't think I understood fully and will have to go through again. Which book of the Old Testament is your favorite?

Thanks Greg. I liked Psalms in the old testament and John in the new testament. and its easy. the way our church did it was every day you would read either a few chapters a day until the end of the year.

Maybe the peer support helped Amber, or maybe I'm just lazier :)

I think my favorite book in the Old Testament was the book of Ruth. Made me cry but not with sadness - made me cry with a sense of the preciousness, love, wonder, and sheer possibility of the human condition.

Does that sound weird? It's the same reason I cried at the end of such varied books as A Christmas Carol, Cry, the Beloved Country, The Book of Strange New Things, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. That blessed joy-in-sadness or sadness-in-joy: a spontaneous overflowing of joy at the sheer possibility of forgiveness and grace with a core of sadness at its heart over how we all so often fall short.

What a wild unbridled power there is in compassion & forgiveness.

that's pretty cool. :)

It did for a while then just did it myself. ^_^ LOL. Would you ever read the bible in a year Greg? Just curious.

I would like to Amber, but I'm not very disciplined. Maybe I'll try again next year. :)

Good Luck Amber.

k awesome then Greg and thanks charbel.