I use the ‘book’ section of the blog as a way of keeping track of what I have read over the year. You can see what I got thru last year in the column on the left.

I’m not a superfast reader nor a slow one. I think I average a book a fortnight.

So here are last year’s top reads:

Fiction: The Kite Runner – a brilliant story of an Afghani child who grows up and goes back to his old home 20 years later. It narrowly gets iin ahead of The Turning but only because it was a ‘re-read’.

Biography – Bruchko – a great stroy of a young missionary forced to ask what it means to love a community of tribal people.

‘Christian’– A tie between Organic Church – which I love for its simplicity and profundity as well as Church Without Walls, a text for the acom unit I taught, but a classic on missional engagement and allowing mission to shape church.

There’s not much very deep or theological there… Might need to stretch my diet a little in the year ahead!

Part of my reason for choosing to blog less is that I want to free more time for actual reading of books. I find I read online quickly and easily – which is fine – but sometimes it involves sifting the quality from the dregs as well as not getting drawn off on sidetracks… like ebay!