Comments on: A Book List for Fall, and a Tour of Powell’s

By: warlock gold farming

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By: Ming’s Secret Blog » Archive » Donald Miller’s suggests these books on writing.

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:27:02 +0000

[...] Donald Miller’s suggests these books on writing. – 0 The War of Art, Steven Pressfield Plot and Structure, James Scott Bell On Writing Well, William Zinsser Notable Mentions: Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott Zen and the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury The Writing Life, Annie Dillard via donmilleris.com [...]

By: Dar

Dar — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:51:46 +0000

I’ve been a big fan of L’Engle’s writing ever since I was in the 4th or 5th grade (and I’m 40-something now!)….I’m hoping you will share what you thought about Madeleine L’Engle’s books (“Walking on Water” and “A Wrinkle in Time”)? Okay, I guess that’s kind of a loaded question….well, even if you didn’t care for her writing, I’d still be interested in hearing your opinion and reasons.

BUT if you DID like “Wrinkle,” you might want to read the next two books in that trilogy (“A Wind in the Door” and “A Swiftly Tilting Planet”). Oh wait, I think there’s one more called “Many Waters” after “Swiftly.” I still reread them and am looking forward to when my two children are old enough to enjoy them, too.

I apologize if this is redundant (if someone else has already suggested these books), as I didn’t read all of the other comments prior to commenting….

By: johnh

johnh — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:38:12 +0000

Some books that made me think and I reread:
Soul Survivor – Philip Yancey
The Jesus Way – Eugene Peterson
Leap over a Wall – Eugene Peterson
Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes – Kenneth Bailey

By: Kels

Kels — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:28:18 +0000

It seems so hard to be challenged by books these days, but I managed to find a few that I think may help me grow my intellect and party-fact-knowledge. Here they are in no particular order:
–How to Lose All Your Friends by Nancy Carlson
–Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi
–How to Walk in High Heels by Camilla Morton
–Hip-Hop Rhyming Dictionary by Kevin Mitchell
–How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O’Connor
–I Can’t Believe I’m Lace Knitting by Kay Meado

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:21:27 +0000

For the Time Being (Annie Dillard) is one of the most beautifully written books I’ve ever read. I also love Raymond Carver (Where I’m Calling From is a good one). If you want to see Christianity from an outsider’s point of view (very eyeopening), I recommend Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement (by Lauren Sandler). I also love Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel. And my favorite of the “classics”: As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)

By: Sarah McCoy

Sarah McCoy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:00:31 +0000

I’m able to read a bit “for fun” this week as my graduate program is on a fall break before midterms.

I’m currently finishing up
unchristian by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
and Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain. I started the Merton over Christmas break. It wasn’t anything I wanted to rush.

I found great little copies of The Last Unicorn (Peter Beagle), The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams) and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Beverly Cleary) at a thrift store the other day so I bought them. I can’t wait to reread them as the nights get longer. I’ll take rereading those old favorites over TV as a filler any day.

By: Dawn Miller

Dawn Miller — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:39:12 +0000

Walking on Water and A Wrinkle In Time are classics that will change the way you think about creating/writing, in different but equally amazing ways. Madeleine L’Engle was a gift to this world I will sorely miss.

By: Sandra Bishop

Sandra Bishop — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:10:14 +0000

I wandered around Powell’s for 3 hours on Friday morning and purchased nothing but a greeting card (needed a receipt get my parking validated.)

In my defense, I was there to do market research. Still, leaving the world’s mega-bookstore with nothing in my book bag reminds me how spoiled I am to live a stone’s throw away from the world’s most amazing retail establishment.

Besides, I have too many books going right now. My goal for the fall is to finish all I’ve started.

I have literary adhd, I think:

oh, yeah. the list …

Jesus Land, Julia Scheeres
Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
Where’s Your Jesus Now, Karen Zacharias
The Exorsistah, Claudia Mair Burney
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Through the Storm, Lynne Spears (figured I’d better read it since it’s one of our books and on the NYT BSL)

Oh, and Mike, Sex God was written by Rob Bell.

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:49:10 +0000

What a fantastic list of great books. Wow. My list is now about a mile longer than it used to be.

That said, my favorite books about writing are:

“Bird By Bird” and just about anything else by Anne Lamott,

Steven King’s “On Writing” (great guide for writers),

Harry Frankfurt’s “On Bulls***” (actual title had to be edited), and Anthony Weston’s A Rulebook for Arguments. While the last two titles aren’t necessarily books about writing, they are great for understanding the role of fallacious thinking, the danger of intentionally misleading one’s audience (“On Bulls***” has a lot to say about that. Those are necessary lessons for any writer.

I have so much in my “to be read” list, it’s ridiculous. While I’m not sure about Ayn Rand, I get what you’re saying, Kathleen. Freakonomics might be a good read right now, as well as Thomas Friedman’s new book, Hot, Flat and Crowded.