2012 Booklist

yep, that's tinsel that we've still got up :)

I will maybe revisit this blog this time next year and see how many (if any) that I've managed to get through. So this is a list of books I'd like to read, re-read or just finish reading, by this time next year...

• That big, beautiful old blue one in the photo - it's my Dad's copy of John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides. It's like two volumes in one and I finished reading the first when I was in Belgium, and haven't let myself get going on the second half yet.
• The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey was brilliant the first time round a few years ago
• Son of Hamas I bought ages ago and have never got around to starting
• Mormonism: A Gold Plated Religion, was fascinating up to where I got to!
• The Cross of Christ by John Stott, I bought when I was about 15 having been told how brilliant it was, started reading and decided it was too hard, and haven't been able to overcome that decision since.
• Helen Roseveare's autobiographies - Give Me This Mountain, Living Faith, Living Holiness, Living Sacrifice and Living Fellowship, they're the ones I have anyway maybe there are more? Four out of five of them were given to me super kindly by some friends.
• A Call to Spiritual Reformation by Don Carson, we started on girls reading week last year but I wasn't really feeling it at the time... could be ready to have another bash at it this year though.
• Seven Years in Tibet, sounds like an amazing story but I started reading it and it wasn't very easy to get into so I gave up.
• Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers, was absolutely amazing. I've ordered it with some Christmas money and it should arrive soon, I can't wait to re-read it, and would love to get into some of her other books too as I've heard they're all good, but I've only read that one.
• Mirror, mirror by Graham Beynon - I have already started re-reading.
• Spurgeon: The Early Years, is my Dad's too and having had it for about 18 months, feel like it's long overdue. Need to get cracking on it!
• The Colour Purple - I've heard it's a classic but I have no idea what it's about or anything.
• To Kill A Mockingbird, we studied for GCSE English but I don't think I probably appreciated it at the time.

There are probably others I've forgotten about but that's a fair old list so that should do...