Anne Rice - Christ the Lord - Out of Egypt

As i spoke to my dear friend Roger about good books that he recomends, he started talking about this one set of books which described Jesus' early life and made him fall in love with the Son of men even more. That was the first time i heard of Anne Rice and her novels, both titled Christ the lord, with different subtitles describing first his return from Egypt and then his life before his public ministry started. Me being a fan of good novels, even more historical novels, eagerly went to bookdepository.com and preordered both books. Knowing they offer free shipping worldwide and have a great price for preorders, I got them both for $12 or less. Of course, not knowing what Anne Rice used to write about I had hard time ordering since all the results on first pages were of vampires. It took me some time to realize she was a famous vampire related novels writer. Good thing she's now done with that ;-]

Comeback with a book

Many things have happened in the last few months since I wrote my last blog post. Many books I have read. Or at least I wish I have read. This is just a short note to say that I am well and alive and I'll be back with you folks in few days with some new books I got on my bookshelf, mostly bought at The BookDepository.com, cheap and with free worldwide shipping. The only problem now being that I have at least 5 or 6 brand new books that I still haven't gotten a chance to read. Yet. But I will.

take care and read well

Daniel

Searching for God knows What by Donald Miller

As I quite enjoyed listening to Donald Miller audiobook "Million miles in a thousand years" I thought I would check out some other of his books. I always enjoyed Miller's humor which brought in some deep thoughts as well.

While I was in London I had a chance to start reading Blue like Jazz, which is more about his search for truth and finding it, as Miller says, Christian spirituality. I was wondering why he didn't just say Christianity, but I guess that might be to broad and even have negative connotations when compared with some people in christian circles.

Ted Dekker - The Bride Collector review

It's been way to long. But it seems I'm equally slow with reading as I am with writing new blog posts. Lately, I'm trying to finish Ted Dekker's The Bride Collector, but it's taking me longer then I was hopping for.

Although I've never read anything by Dekker before, except "The House" which was written by Dekker and Peretti, I was sure his books were great. Maybe because I saw the movie "Three" 2 years ago.

Book review: Redbreast by Jo Nesbo

Some time ago I bought "Readbrest" by Jo Nesbo really cheep. It was translated into Croatian and less then $5 in my local grocery store. A lot of pages, so I said, why not. It's been a while since I read crime historical thriller anyways.

The book is one of many about Harry Hole, Norwegian police officer, this time chasing after a possible assassin who bought a very expensive but somehow he is driven to discover that it's all connected with some WW2 military men 50 years ago.

Reading: Jesus wants to save Christians

As I'm staying for couple of days in London with some friends and relatives, I've started reading Jesus wants to save Christians, by Rob Bell. Amazing book. I have had a chance to see some of NOOM-a videos that Rob produced in last couple of years, and I know I was quite surprised by his approach and his insight.

But in this book as he goes to explore slave mentality and pharaon syndrome that is easily overtaking Christian groups, I was excited about reading stuff I haven't heared of before. Never really gave much thought to it.

Notes: Leadership as an Identity

Today we finished with chapter 5 talking about adequacy. Or better yet, inadequacy. It was a great hour and a half. To be honest, I find that Loritts writes a bit too much in white or black scenarios, as if everything is either-or. And I must say that it doesn't speaks to me in that way. But the idea of having 3 other man discussing about it makes all the difference.

Reading: Heroes of faith: David Livingstone

Some time ago I finished another Heroes of faith book about D.L. Moody, and immediately picked this one up in my local Christian library. But! I took me more than a month to start reading it. Not sure why, I just kept on putting it aside. So far I've read about 30 pages and felt in love with this Livingstone guy. I guess, cause I always wanted to be somewhat of such an character. At age thirteen David Livingstone worked 14 hour shifts in factory, after that spent 2 hours studying Latin only to come home and read until midnight. Only so he could earn enough money to go study medicine in London and go to be a missionary in Africa. I was so impressed by this that I found the book grabbing my attention even more then D.L.Moody biography did.

Read: If you want to walk on water you've got to get out of the boat

So, some time ago I finished listening to an audio book from John Ortberg called "Everybody's normal till you get to know them". Although I like listening to books, I've figured out I only like it for the books I've already read. Otherwise I would "read" it too fast. Well, I've decided to check this Ortberg guy a bit more so I went to Bookdepository.com and searched for some other of his books. Eventually I ended up ordering Zondervans miniature edition, not really knowing what miniature edition means. My wife had a good laugh about it when the book arrived 10 days later. It's a mini pocket size, that's for sure.