on my reading list

Last year seemed full, even though a lot of it was spent waiting...on doctors, on insurance, on sales reps, on chair repairs, on van mechanics. You would think I would have been able to squeeze a lot of reading in with all the waiting, but last year holds the record for the least amount of books I've read in the last 9 years.

This year I'm pushing myself to read some of the books on my dresser that I've kept putting off. My goal is a chapter a week in two different books. Here's what I'm working on now:



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The first one is making me think more than I've thought since Systematic Theology class in college, and the second is a vivid reminder of how terrible war and bad public policies (in this case Southern policies) can truly destroy an economy.

I should finish Whosoever Will by the end of February. The history one will take much longer. And then I'll be more than ready for something fiction.