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Galatians
Invisible Planets
I am so grateful to have gotten to take Literature of the People’s Republic of China with Professor Thomas Moran in his final semester of teaching. He encouraged us to think for ourselves and write for our classmates, which helped me develop more original ideas and arguments. The lack of grades on formal assignments gave me the freedom to experiment in my writing and helped me feel less…
Ruth
Daniel
Revelation
Goodbye, Antoura
3 John
2 John
1 John
Barefoot Doctor
Read in translation.
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
Hebrews
Revelation
Grateful for the opportunity to read Scripture with Andy!
Peach Blossom Paradise
Read in translation.
Ruth
Isaiah
Ephesians
Kitchen Confidential
After watching the first season of The Bear , I wanted some insight into the restaurant industry. Kitchen Confidential definitely gives you some, but Bourdain is a little too irreverent and goes into some personal/specific details I thought were unnecessary.
2 Corinthians
Man's Search for Meaning
Exodus
The Screwtape Letters
Mark
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
I return to this book, time and time again, and love it more each time.
The Prodigal God
God's Smuggler
Read it. Figure out what that means for yourself ;)
1 Corinthians
Holes
One of my favorite reads as a kid. Remains a favorite in my book.
Lord of the Flies
Why does humanity’s great capacity for sin often come as a surprise? When reading a book like Lord of the Flies , it’s so easy for me to get mad at the characters in the story, thinking that I would’ve done better. The scary reality is that we are all more like the children on the island than we think — or more frighteningly — like the rescuing British naval officer.
Supercommunicators
Over time, I have become increasingly wary of popular “self-help” books, but I gave this one a try because I remember liking Duhigg’s seminal book, The Power of Habit . I feel a small sense of affinity towards Duhigg because I think that James Clear’s even more famous habit book, Atomic Habits , was sort of a copy of Duhigg’s. Although I disagree with the premise that…
畫兒上的美人
我剛看我第一本中文書了！雖然我還沒學很多詞，但是這本書很有意思。我還不相信這本書那麼有意思！
Matthew
The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory
Life of the Beloved
This was at least my second time reading this book (though somehow my first time logging) and I love it. Last spring, when I read Life of the Beloved for the first time, I remember this deep sense of wanting — wanting something I didn’t yet have: “When our deepest truth is that we are the Beloved and when our greatest joy and peace come from fully claiming that truth, it follows that…
1984
I am really glad that I revisited 1984 after a few years . The first time I read it, I was mainly concerned with the theme of mass surveillance, but recently, authoritarian regimes have been on my mind (hopefully, I’ll take a class on them this fall), so the book read differently than the first time. 1984 is a classic for a reason and I should really purchase a physical copy at some point.
Single, Dating, Engaged, Married
Ben Stuart is great. I had already listened to a lot of his sermons on dating and some of the chapters in the book are almost exactly the same, but it was still good to read everything in a cohesive package.
James
The Psychology of Money
A lot of what Housel says is common investing advice, but I would argue he is a better explainer than most. If someone doesn’t know much about investing, this would be a great place to start. The Psychology of Money ’s insights are centered around two main themes: hubris and time. Hubris Don’t think you can outperform the market; most people don’t and even if you do,…
Slow Productivity
I am a big fan of Cal Newport and his style of “smart productivity” that blends traditional self-help with regular non-fiction writing. I’m a regular listener of Newport’s Deep Questions Podcast where I heard about pretty much everything in the book, but it was still worth reading through this text because it nicely lays out the entire idea of “Slow…
Revelation
Give People Money
John
Hebrews
Disciplines of a Godly Man
To Be a Christian
2 Samuel
1 Samuel
Meditations
Reading Meditations was deeply fascinating because Marcus Aurelius (the last emperor of the Pax Romana) did not write for an audience, but for himself, “as a means of practicing and reinforcing his own philosophical convictions.” In this book, we are given a window into a different kind of worldview than what we might be accustomed. It is so different that almost a third of the version…