So I immediately went to Amazon and downloaded the Kindle sample for A Tale for the Time Being since we’re so in sync about disliking The Imperfectionists. ha. Thanks for the recommendation.

I love your list of books, Mary. Brennan Manning was one of my favorite authors. I don’t think I’ve read Ruthless Truth though; gotta add it to my list. I read Albert Pujol’s “More than the Game” a couple years ago since he’s been one of my favorite players for awhile. I was sad when he left the Cardinals. I’ll have to add Intentional Walk to my list now.

21 years for us! (I had to do the math first; don’t tell Jeff. ha)

I have that exact problem with my Kindle (and really any book that I own, but I’ve found it heightened with my Kindle). Library books always are read first because of the due date, then books loaned by friends, then “real” books I own, then Kindle books. Unless it’s a Kindle book I really, really want to read, in which case I can bump it up in priority. 🙂

I have an old keyboard version too, and that’s one reason I haven’t wanted to update; I like the manual keyboard. I suppose that’s old school even though it’s still a relatively new piece of technology. ha.

Thanks for the addendum, Barbara. The movie sounds like quite a thriller but one I’d probably not like because of its intensity. The book has surprised me here and there with a little bit of violence, but overall I’d give it between a G and a PG rating (if it were a movie) which isn’t bad for a thriller.

Even if you’ve disagreed with Bell on other matters, you’d probably be less offended by this book. But nonetheless, if he’s not your cup of tea, there are plenty of other books out there to read. 🙂

And Nothing to Envy is definitely a good one. Although it’s not written from a spiritual perspective, it’s easy to see in it what a lack of God can do in a society. 🙁 It’s a painful but profitable read on many levels.

I’m not sure how the 50 thing happens either. 🙂 But it has. I guess the book about it made me feel better overall than worse, but it did have its moments. ha.

If you don’t typically like Rob Bell’s style, you probably won’t like this one either ; it’s in the same genre as his last few anyway. But he does have lots of good things to say about God in this one that I really appreciated. So I’d just say proceed at your own risk. 🙂