Too Many Words on Wednesday - the Current Reading List

  i'm going to try something new here.   i've got 9 or 10 books, and a fair amount i want to say about each, so i'm going to use a tool called a Jump Break to keep the initial, home page read from being too long.  Leave a comment to let me know if you like the practice or not!

Here is the simple list:

•  Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking
• Imagine
• Twelve Ordinary Men
• Tiger Lillie
• the NT book of Hebrews and a highly unusual study guide
• Buzz and Split
•  i've included two other books in the photo that i plan to begin soon.

And here is the Jump  Break , after which i will share a few lines about each.   (If you come to this blogpost on its own page, you probably won't notice the Jump Break - i'd like to hear about that too, please!)

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking.  MyGuy found it a liberating book.  i enjoyed it a great deal.  It's an easy read, and should be required read for all introverts, everyone who deals with them, and everyone in management and education.  (Does that leave anyone out?)
• Imagine, by Jonah Lehrer.  i find this one empowering.  While both this and Quiet include brain research with interviews of creative people, this is somewhat less easy a read, but it's also an important book.  Creative people, those in management, and educators should read this one.
• Twelve Ordinary Men, by John MacArthur, about Jesus' disciples.  i found a few new insights in this one, disagreed with a few points (maybe Philip did show a lack of faith in pointing out how much it would cost to feed the 5000, but we need realists like that.  Because of him, we have a clearer idea how great the miracle was, and because of people like him, today we are encouraged to count the cost.)
• Tiger Lillie, by Lisa Samson.  Our book club's current selection, it's supposed to be Christian humor, or at least a light book.  Not sure it's particularly either, except in tone, but i'm enjoying it very much.
• the book of Hebrews in the NT.  A friend and i are doing a Bible study from Pam Gillaspie's Precept/Sweeter than Chocolate series workbook study on Hebrews 11, which uses that chapter as a Cliffs/Sparks Notes to the entire Bible
• Buzz and Split, two books of about 5" square that you flip over midway through.  They are by Marcus Brotherton, in Multnomah's FlipSwitch series, and i have them for TWO reasons: they were on clearance for $1.97 and a conversation i had with the Bible study friend about youth leaders not discussing hard topics with kids.  i figure, adults don't discuss hard topics because they don't know how.  These books are weird, but written to meet teens (there's a riff on what drunken Noah may have thought and a quote from ?Proverbs, ?Ecclesiastes, as a wine ad showing why Solomon would never be asked to write one, and lots of as-if pages of blogs from kids with questions.)

Waiting in the wings:

• Thorn in My Pocket, by Eustacia Cutler  (title refers to a literal thorn, a device for public speaking NOT to her daughter.Temple Grandin)
• Twelve Extraordinary Women, by John MacArthur, the book i was really looking for when i got the Men book.