We’ve got three Bibles that are fairly frequently read and are falling apart in various places. I have a Crossway ESV Single Column Legacy Bible in ‘Trutone’1 where the cover is flaking and the cover is separating from the end papers. I had taped it up with duct tape a number of years ago to secure the cover but the faux leather continues to flake off, make a mess and look unsightly.
My total pages read for October was 1,789. I finished one I started in September (Murray), started and finished four (Jane Eyre and three Hardy Boys), and started another (Hagin).
At the end of September I had commenced Andrew Murray’s Abide with Christ. Many of Andrew’s books are designed to be read a chapter a day for 31 days so I got in step with the calendar and read a chapter a day to coincide with the date.
My total pages read for September was 1,928. This number may be on the high side as I’m reading more on my ereader than previously and the page numbers I’m recording are actually screen numbers.
A quick search of word counts per page in the interwebs yields somewhere around 250-300 words per page for a novel. My ereader seems to have around 230-240 words per screen so my page count may be around 15% overstated.
My total pages read for August was 1,334.
I started and finished five books during the month: Kenneth E. Hagin’s Commonsense Guide to Fasting and How to Walk in Love. Both of these Hagin books are quite small. I also reread A.W. Tozer’s God’s Power for Your Life, Peter Durbin’s What’s Really Going On? and Joel C. Rosenberg’s The Persian Gamble which is the second in his Marcus Ryker series.
I started reading Dallas Willard’s Hearing God but stopped after about 40 pages.
My total pages read for July was 448 which included finishing three books and continuing in one.
The three I finished were Tomasi’s The Leopard, and two works by Kenneth Hagin: The Believer’s Authority and a mini book Learning to Flow with the Spirit of God.
The Leopard is a novel centred on an Italian aristocrat in the middle of the nineteenth century as the revolution led by Garibaldi unfolds. The two works by Kenneth E. Hagin are both biblical and practical.
No, this is not some deep theological or philosophical treatise but instead a declaration that one of our notebooks, an HP Envy Ultrabook 6, is no more.
As far as I can tell we bought it in August 2012 so it was close to 13 years old. It had fairly heavy use in its earlier days - so much so that the monitor hinge broke and we left it open most of the time once it had been repaired.
My total pages read for June was 590 which included finishing three books and started three more.
I completed Flannery O’Connor’s Complete Stories. The book is described by one person as southern gothic. I would add macabre, somewhat bizarre, entertaining in parts, disturbing in others.
I also finished Chuck Swindoll’s Strengthening Your Grip which I put aside in March.
I read Kenneth Hagin’s Healing Belongs to Us and commenced his The Believer’s Authority.
I also commenced reading Tomasi’s The Leopard and John Flavel’s classic 42 sermon series The Fountain of Life Opened Up with the alternative or additional title including “A display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory”.
My total pages read for May was 582.
I finished Keith Moore’s God’s Will to Heal.
I started and completed a few Kenneth Hagin books:
I also continued Flannery O’Connor’s Complete Stories. Fear not, the end is in sight!
Back in the olden days (the 1980s), my first car didn’t come with a radio or any music-playing capability. My second car, however (purchased in 1982), did. And with the advent of a car that could accept cassette tapes came an innovation - the mixtape.
At the time I hadn’t heard of mixtapes, so when I cobbled together some of my favourite songs of the time onto cassettes, I gave them the name ‘Various’.
My total pages read for April was 555.
I finished Simon Blackburn’s Think; continued in Flannery O’Connor’s Complete Stories and will continue to do so until complete, and commenced Keith Moore’s God’s Will to Heal.