Food trucks, farmers’ markets, and family reunions punctuate our summers; and so does the opportunity to pause and read a good book! If you want suggestions for literary enrichment, I invite you to consider these options for your beach bag, tote bag, or back porch basket.
“Food trucks, farmers’ markets, and family reunions punctuate our summers; and so does the opportunity to pause and read a good book! ”
Forty Autumns by Nina Wilner
This riveting memoir captures the day-to-day and year-to-year reality of one family divided by the Berlin Wall between East and West Germany. Multiple generations of relatives suffer at the hand of a global Cold War. The author’s extraordinary literally skills keep the reader engaged to the last page and beyond.
A Night Divided by Jennifer Nielson
Resistance by Jennifer Nielson
Words on Fire by Jennifer Nielson
Rescue by Jennifer Nielson
First, a friend—and then my voracious reader granddaughter—introduced me to author Jennifer Nielson. While these four mentioned volumes are classified as YA, young adult fiction, Nielsen masterfully offers sufficient substance to hold the interest of an adult reader who enjoys historical fiction.
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Oh, my! The New York Times calls this true story of exploration to Antarctica, “One of the great adventure stories of our time.” Taken from the pages, one reads, “They were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world, drifting they knew not where, without a hope of rescue, subsisting only so long as Providence sent them food to eat.”
Seated with Christ: Living Freely in a Culture of Comparison by Heather Holloman
Professor, Ph.D., and author Heather Holloman invites her reader to “Find your seat at the greatest table with the greatest King.” She continues, “… you can be free from self-consciousness, from comparing yourself to others, and from being so preoccupied with whether you have a seat at the table that you’re missing the incredible life in Christ that could be yours.”
The Book of Proverbs
The Book of Proverbs, saturated with rich practical wisdom, contains 31 chapters. Summer’s middle month of July also contains 31 days, thus lending this Book in the Bible to reading one chapter of Proverbs for each of the 31 days.
Summer gives us permission to lose ourselves in a good book. I hope you will be gentle with yourself, hit the pause button, take a deep breath button, and read. Then, please tell me all about it!
“Summer gives us permission to lose ourselves in a good book. Hit the pause button, take a deep breath button, and read. ”
Living With Eternal Intentionality®
“He has also set eternity in the human heart” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
“To everything, there is a season …” (Ecclesiastes 3:1).
In this season of summer, when will reading fit into your other planned activities?
How does your intellectual nourishment bring glory to God?
Which titles would you share for the rest of us to consider this summer?
