Amber's Reading for Pleasure Book List 2015

[Amber]

This will be for all the books I don't read this year on my TBR will move onto the next year including books for reading challenges I am doing and more.

[Alannah]

Good luck Amber.

[Amber]

Thanks Alannah you too. :)

[Amber]

I plan to do my reading for pleasure reading challenge again where I read 1 or more books a week until the end of the year. This includes library books, ebooks, books I own, and audio books with the ebooks library too.

[LauraT]

Great challenge Amber!

[dely]

How is your Bible reading going on? Did you finish it this year or will you continue also next year?

Good luck with your 2015 challenge ;-)

[Amber]

Thanks LauraT.

Dely I finished reading the bible this year back on December 27th. I'll probably do the bible reading challenge again for 2015. I just did it this year because my church wanted us all to read it together as a church for the whole year. If they don't do it again, I'll do it myself.

[Greg]

That's impressive to get through the whole Bible in a year Amber! I've read most of it, but it took me 2 1/2 years. Some of the elaborate, very lengthy prescriptions and descriptions of the temple bogged me down for a while. I also had a hard time getting through some of the conquering bloodbath parts. Lots of the Old Testament I don't think I understood fully and will have to go through again. Which book of the Old Testament is your favorite?

[Amber]

Thanks Greg. I liked Psalms in the old testament and John in the new testament. and its easy. the way our church did it was every day you would read either a few chapters a day until the end of the year.

[Greg]

Maybe the peer support helped Amber, or maybe I'm just lazier :)

I think my favorite book in the Old Testament was the book of Ruth. Made me cry but not with sadness - made me cry with a sense of the preciousness, love, wonder, and sheer possibility of the human condition.

Does that sound weird? It's the same reason I cried at the end of such varied books as A Christmas Carol, Cry, the Beloved Country, The Book of Strange New Things, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. That blessed joy-in-sadness or sadness-in-joy: a spontaneous overflowing of joy at the sheer possibility of forgiveness and grace with a core of sadness at its heart over how we all so often fall short.

What a wild unbridled power there is in compassion & forgiveness.

[Amber]

that's pretty cool. :)

[Amber]

It did for a while then just did it myself. ^_^ LOL. Would you ever read the bible in a year Greg? Just curious.

[Greg]

I would like to Amber, but I'm not very disciplined. Maybe I'll try again next year. :)

[Charbel]

Good Luck Amber.

[Amber]

k awesome then Greg and thanks charbel.