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You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church And Rethinking Faith by David Kinsman. The title pretty much captures the book. It's a discussion of the various reasons that the Christian churches are losing traction among those younger than 30. Pretty interesting stuff, if you are at all concerned about the future. Its concepts pertain to almost any mainstream western faith, not just Christian denominations.
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Haroun And The Sea Of Stories by Salman Rushdie. Just finished this visit to a fantastic world as seen through the eyes of a child who must help his father to regain the gift of storytelling. It has an Alice in Wonderland type of feeling, and touches on the struggle between light and darkness, in subtle reflections of present time situations in the world.
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
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"Cane and Abe" by James Grippando. Fiction book set in the Florida Everglades. A blind selection from the library based on the title alone.
It was...ok.
I found the main character frustratingly dumb.
I got exactly what I paid for.
Maybe I'll go back to non fiction for my next one.
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Chris Kyle: American Sniper
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Just finished "Hand for a Hand" by T. Frank Muir. It is a kind of Rankin-esque crime novel set in St Andrews, where I lived for six years. There's something special about reading novels set in places one knows well.
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Not something I am currently reading, but Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, has succumbed to his Alzheimer's at age 66. Such a loss . . .
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After seeing Cangooner's suggestion, I too picked up "Hand for a Hand" by T. Frank Muir online at the local library.
A good read. (thank you Sir :chapeau)
Now I want to visit St Andrews.
Time for the next book in the series...
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Currently finishing up Dust, which is the third book in the Wool trilogy. Planning on Neverwhere next.
I was reading "When the River's Run Dry," but couldn't make it past the first third. It's about the depletion of the world's freshwater in rivers and underground reserves, and I just found it so boring. And the lack of citations, not to mention depth, really turns me off.
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I have started "The silence of lambs " I saw the film but only now I read the book of "hannibal" but in this days I don't read because I must read a manual for use the program matlab :cry: