Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Even my blog's Namesake

The other day my friend Kate mentioned that if she starts a book she has to finish it.  I have another friend, Alison, who i believe feels the same way (no matter how long it takes =)).

And I'm realizing that I never really feel compelled to finish much.  I had never really thought about the breadth of unfinished books in my repertoire until the other day.  Here are some of the books that I have thoroughly enjoyed but yet to have finish:

- The Cost of Discipleship  by Bonhoeffer
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek  by Annie Dillard
The Twilight Labyrinth  by George Otis
- Chasing the Dragon  by Jackie Pullinger
- Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger  by Ronald J. Sider
- One Nation Over God: the Americanization of Christianity  by DA Fletcher
- Prophetic Imagination  by Walter Bruegemann
The Good News About Injustice  by Gary Haugen
- The End of Poverty  by Jeffery Sachs 
- The Sex God  by Rob Bell
- Theirs is the Kingdom  by Robert Lupton
* Simple Spirituality by  Chris Heuertz
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time  by Mark Haddon
- Suite Francaise  by Irène Némirovsky
- The Shack by  William P. Young
- Money, Sex & Power by Richard Foster
- and even the Namesake of my blog, No Man is an Island, by Thomas Merton

* indicates books I am currently (as of this week) partaking of

** it's pretty long, it makes me laugh
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2 comments:

kate said...

awww. i read this thinking that after the list you would say you want to commit to try to finishing books! hahah. i love you!

Anonymous said...

mols, i'm the same way. i'm currently in the middle of:
boundaries by cloud/townsend
christ our lord out of egypt by anne rice
blindness by jose saramago
the secret life of bees by sue monk kidd
the body project by joan jacobs brumberg

and, i don't know when i'll finish them.