Total pages read for January 2026 was 607.
First up was to begin reading Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship again. I first read it in 2017 and got around 90 pages in this time until I stopped. It’s fairly heavy going and I found I wasn’t giving it sufficient attention.
Given that I was reading something translated from German, I thought I’d pick some fiction also translated from German. I considered some Kafka but settled on Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front instead. In the Dedication the author states that the work is neither an accusation nor a confession. Neat.
My wife and I started reading Day by Day with JC Ryle - a daily devotional selected from Ryle’s Expository Thoughts on the Gospels. This will be finished on 31st December!
After stopping reading Bonhoeffer I opted for another re-read. This time Jim Cymbala’s Spirit Rising.
The final book commenced in January was Tony Abbott’s Australia.
So for the month I started and stopped one book (Bonhoeffer), read one (Remarque), re-read one (Cymbala) and started two (Ryle and Abbott).