Through Gates of Splendor

I finally made it out and picked up a couple of Elisabeth Elliot books. The one I'm going to start next is called....you guessed it.... Through Gates of Splendor.

This link will let you read snippets and more reviews. I can't wait to read it.

This one just looks super interesting...

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by James W. Loewen

The Know it all

I realize I'm adding a lot of books tonight. They're just on the brain and I don't want to forget about them.

This one has been on my mental list for a long time. I have it on good authority that it is quite entertaining.

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (Hardcover)
by A. J. Jacobs (Author) "a-ak That's the first word in the Encyclopaedia Britannica..." (more)

Soon, Silenced, Shadowed

OK. I've read Soon, by Jerry Jenkins. the first in a totally different Christian end-times fiction series. Good stuff and looking forward to the next two. It's been at least a year or more since I finished soon, but it was a good read and different enough from the Left Behind series to not feel like you were reading the same book. This one actually starts from the perspective of the persecutor. Check- on the list.

Don't Let the title scare you.

I'm not sure about this one. I found the title/author written on a piece of paper saved from my time at the bookstore. I looked it up on amazon to jog my memory as to why in the world I wrote this one down. There were so many lists i made.

Click HERE for the Amazon link and Reviews about the book

Emergency Sex and other Desperate Measures - Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, Andrew Thompson

It's basically about these three people who met in Cambodia or something. A lawyer, a social worker and a doctor. And them dealing with life, saving lives and all kinds of stuff.

"This is a unique and rewarding book, a mix of memoir, history, travel, and personal analysis." David Pitt Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

So, it's on the list.

What's that you're eating there?

I had my nutrition assessment this week and it was really great. Not like I'm eating like a saint or anything, but the experience and info was good. The nutritionist recommended a book to me that I plan on reading very soon and I thought several of you might be interested in. It's called

Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food by Susan Albers

It looks really good and it's short and small. Not a novel by any means. Enjoy!

Oh MY, Mr. Darcy!

Well, the reason I finished the previous book so quickly, was because this one was next on the list. If you read my regular posts, you would have discovered that I won a couple of autographed books. The first of which, Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife, I have already read. The second, Darcy and Elizabeth, I have not, and it is the next book in the series. I just started it last night and after 6 chapters I have to say that so far it is living up to the previous versions reputation. Fun and ..... 'racey restraint', would be good terms to describe it. And well, it's always good when you imagine Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. That just makes the whole book even better. ;)

The number one ladies are Ok.

I just finished reading Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Pretty good. Sweet. Easy read. Not a big brain drain or anything, but not really compelling enough for me to want to keep reading the series. There are too many other books on my must read list for me to get lost in another series.

Fun summer read?

Possibly.....?
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Finally.....and Next

Ahhhh. Guess what? You'll never believe it! I finished a book! Of course, it's part of a series, so I'm not really done with the story. But hey, it's a start. Last night I finished Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fjord. Awesome, and of course, it leads right into the next book, The Well of Lost Plots. But I have this stack of books that I bought after I graduated....so I have to read at least some of them before I go out and buy another book. I should just be happy in the fact that I don't have to wait a year or more for the next book in this series to come out. TYVMJKR! Hehe. So now if I can just find time to listen to the rest of Wicked, I'll be done with both books that I've been reading. But of course I'll have started a new one before that! Have a great day!