Living Unabridged

What I'm Reading Currently:

Fiction:Nothing really. Recently finished We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter. (World's Shortest Review: good, but not great.) This book is in the fact / fiction blend category. (As is the next title, below.)

Nonfiction: After a long time languishing in my to-read stack, I finally picked up All Things Bright and Beautiful again and I've almost finished. Again, this title exists in the fact / fiction blend category. (Coincidentally, we are also watching Series 2 of the show. I love it so much!) Warning: these books are frank about animals, anatomy, etc. I wouldn't hand them to a kid younger than middle school. Fortunately there are other Herriot books designed for children.

Bible: I'm almost all the way through the American Standard Version. (I start Revelation tomorrow. So roughly a week or less until I'm done!) Not one of my favorite versions of the Bible, but I enjoy reading through different versions because something always jumps out at me that I've missed before.

Devotional: Send Out Your Light by Sandra McCracken. The quote above comes from this book. (A related post I wrote a few years ago:The Profundity of the Doxology.)

Theology: No Little Women by Aimee Byrd. I wonder if Byrd would write this same book again because so much has changed since it was published. The central message (women should be good theologians) is still true but the conversation is...I don't know, charged, in a way it wasn't a few years ago.

Practical: Habits of the Household by Justin Whitmel Earley. Good content but this is somehow the last book I pick up when I'm choosing something from my stack(s). Not sure why that is.

Classic: Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I have finished Chapter 14. So far Melville has described various things including a ship related sermon and a pretty big digression into Queequeg's background (Canibal Prince, i.e. noble savage, as best I can understand) I'm actually enjoying this a lot more than I expected to. (And, it must be said, it's easier to read than Ivanhoe was.)

Read Aloud:The Twenty-One Balloons with my 11 year old daughter at bedtime. We're almost finished and we have both enjoyed this adventure story very much.

Audiobook: Nope.

I'm keeping up with my Goodreads account more faithfully these days. I'd be happy to add a few more friends there as well so send me a request if we're not already linked up.

What are you reading now?