{"id":10742,"date":"2023-01-03T18:58:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T23:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=10742"},"modified":"2025-01-01T06:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T11:10:33","slug":"2023-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=10742","title":{"rendered":"2023 Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Books I finished in 2023:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Becoming a Catalyst<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Ken Lagestee<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Kate DiCamillo<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>An Introduction to John Owen<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Crawford Gribben<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>HBR Guide to Leading Teams<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Mary Shapiro<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Anthony Esolen<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Prayer (Puritan Paperbacks)<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; John Bunyan<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Man Who Was Thursday<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; G. K. Chesterton<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Riders in the Chariot<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Patrick White<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Escape Velocity<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Doc Norton<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Fool of New York City<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Michael D. O&#8217;Brien<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Brian Moore<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Lighthouse<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Michael D. O&#8217;Brien<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Tale of Despereaux<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Kate DiCamillo<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Transfiguration and Transformation<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Hywel R. Jones<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Stainless Steel Rat and Three Other Stories<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Harry Harrison<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Make Room!  Make Room!<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Harry Harrison<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Psalm 119 for Life<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Hywel R. Jones<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Following God Fully:  An Introduction to the Puritans<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Joel R. Beeke &amp; Michael Reeves<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Amusing Ourselves to Death (audio version)<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Neil Postman<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Remains of the Day<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Kazuo Ishiguro<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Stars My Destination<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Alfred Bester<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>I Don&#8217;t Want to Talk About It:<br \/>\nOvercoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Terrance Real<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Seal Wife<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Kathryn Harrison<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Invention of Morel<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Adolfo Bioy Casares<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Calvin:  Theologian and Reformer<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Joel R. Beeke &amp; Garry J. Williams, editors<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Canon of the Books of the Old and New Testaments<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Robert Haldane<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Professional Scrum Team<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Peter G\u00f6tz<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Theophilos<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Michael D. O&#8217;Brien<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Expository Thoughts on John, Vol. 3<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; J. C. Ryle<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Demolished Man<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Alfred Bester<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Shame Interrupted:   How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection (audio version)<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Edward T. Welch<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Commentary on James (Geneva Series)<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Thomas Manton<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Reformed Systematic Theology, Vol.1<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Joel R. Beeke &amp; Paul M. Smalley<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Epistle of Paul to the Romans (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries)<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; F. F. Bruce<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Life of Dr. Owen<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Andrew Thomson<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books I finished in 2023: Becoming a Catalyst &#8211; Ken Lagestee The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane &#8211; Kate DiCamillo An Introduction to John Owen &#8211; Crawford Gribben HBR Guide to Leading Teams &#8211; Mary Shapiro Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child &#8211; Anthony Esolen Prayer (Puritan Paperbacks) &#8211; John Bunyan The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=10742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2023 Reading List&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10742","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10742"}],"version-history":[{"count":69,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11047,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10742\/revisions\/11047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}