My total for September was 835. I finished The Monogram Murders which is a Hercule Poirot mystery in the style of Agatha Christie. I also finished the first book in The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds on Prayer I started rereading R.Kent Hughes Disciplines of a Godly Man but put it away after a few chapters. I may come back to it in the new year. I also commenced rereading Frank Peretti’s This Present Darkness.
My total for August was 1,553. The primary works were finishing Frank Peretti’s The Oath, reading the first 25 pages of Robert Stone’s Damascus Gate (before deciding to not read further), and reading two further works by Peretti: The Visitation and Monster. I also commenced reading The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds on Prayer.
Total pages read in July were 1,187. This included finishing George Bennett’s The Heart of Healing; Donald Whitney’s Praying the Bible; The Prayers of Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard and Perry Lefevre; Prophet by Frank Peretti and the first half (or so) of Peretti’s The Oath.
Pages read in June totalled 829. It included the bulk of Howards End, all of Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon and a good chunk of The Heart of Healing by George Bennett.
Total pages read in May were 540. This includes the two books I’d lined up to read on holidays: How to Think, and Breaking Bread with the Dead - both by Alan Jacobs. I also started E.M Forster’s Howards End. I got about a quarter of the way through it in May and (spoiler alert!) finished it in June.
And how did April shape up? Poorly. The total was 393 comprising about a third from my daily Bible reading and devotionals with the other two thirds being a couple of short Christian books (Worthy by Sinclair Ferguson, and Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray). May is a holiday month and I have a couple of new books lined up: How to Think, and Breaking Bread with the Dead - both by Alan Jacobs.
During the month of March I tracked the total number of pages I read. This was as a result of a video I saw by Parker Settecase on his youtube channel Park Notes. The specific video was this one where he advocates logging ones reading on a daily basis. I came across the video in February so decided to commence in March. So what was the answer? 512. Not much, but okay for someone who hasn’t felt like reading much since Christmas.