book club: scott orson card and francis chan

one of my personal goals for this year was to allow myself the time to read again. growing up, reading was just about all that i did. my mom said that sending me to my room was slighting counterproductive in the discipline department because i would happily lock myself away in the there for hours reading. the libraries near where i lived, i had bled them dry reading every nancy drew and the occasional hardy boy they had stacked up on their shelves. the librarian would chuckle at me when i appeared with my library card and stack of anywhere from three to five books at a time. “sweetie, you’re going to take awhile reading all of these.” she would say. my mom would stand knowingly behind me, silent. those books would be read by the end of the week if not sooner. i inhaled books. i still inhale books.

when i grew old enough to start buying my own books, my mom would insist that due to my reading speed, it would be far more practical to continue checking them out from the library. but just like belle in beauty and the beast, i have a book problem. if i could have the library beast gives her in the castle, i’d be in heaven…you know, so long as there was a starbucks barista built in.

crazy love, overhwelmed by a relentless God by francis chan: this book was as hard to read as salt water is to gargle with. it’s challenging. it’s not just challenging, it’s crazy challenging. it punches you in the gut and then lovingly gives you a hug…you know, if this book was a person. the profile of the obsessed found in chapter eight was the hardest. it makes me want to love my Redeemer more. it makes me want to be more willing, more trusting, it makes me want more of Him. buy it, borrow it, check it out at the library, but read it. read it and go crazy.

xenocide by orson scott card: dont judge me, i love science fiction books. i love science fiction movies. i love the science fiction channel on tv. this book is book three in the ender series {yes, i realize i sound like a huge geek, and yes, i claim huge geekdom} for me, there comes a risk with reading series books. i tend to get hooked. with this particular series, there’s two different perspectives for the same story, so it’s really two series in one series. confusing? try reading them. i’ve read three- there are five left {okay so really six cause supposedly there’s another coming out in february…again, geekdom!} and then, it’s on to the hunger games, hopefully before the movie comes out. like i said, i get hooked.

dwell in possibility…