I finished reading my first book this year, Tony Reinke’s Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books (Kindle | Vyrso). I read it on my Nexus 7 using the Vyrso app. If you want to read more books in 2013, you’ll find a lot of help and motivation from this fine book.
Tony gives six tips to help you read more books this year:
- Expect resistance from your heart.
- Make time to read, not excuses for why you don’t read. We all have good excuses.
- Cultivate a hunger for books by reading (and rereading) great books.
- Set your reading priorities, and let them drive your book selections.
- Stop doing something else in order to make time to read.
- Try reading three (or more) books at a time and take advantage of your environments.
On #5, I’ll be replacing some of my RSS reading with book reading.
Up next: Todd Billings’s Union with Christ: Reframing Theology and Ministry for the Church, which I’ll be reading in Vyrso.
What are you reading?
Currently I am reading:
Don Hagner’s “The New Testament: A Historical and Theological Introduction.”
Stan Porter et al. “On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries: Festschrift for Grant R. Osborne on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday.”
Christ Tilling’s “Paul’s Divine Christology.”
Recommend one or all? Is one your favorite?
Well, I am 550 pages plus into Hagner’s so I would recommend that one. Plus, the other two are Brill and Mohr Siebeck, and we know how expensive those are.
I really do like Hagner’s approach thus far. Very digestible chpater sizes, with very good bibliographies. More moderate in his conclusions (Q, non-Pauline authorship of Pastorals and Colossians), but strongly evangelical. It is coming to Logos soon (On PrePub), so I am sure you will get it when it comes.
- Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel
- Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian