Books in Review

Now that it's 2007, I'm going to start a new list of the books I've read throughout the year. For memory's sake, here are the books I read during 2006, and my brief opinion of them:

• Cane River by Lalita Tademy: Good.
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden: Good. Great character development.
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: Very Good. It's Jane Austen, is there really any surprise?
• The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoefer: Okay, so I didn't get too far in this one. Perhaps 2007 is the year for Bonhoefer?
• Little Women by Lousia May Alcott: Excellent. I think this is my new favorite book.
• A Painted House by John Grisham: Disappointing. Not really any plot, and no lawyers.
• Ruthless Trust by Brennan Manning: Okay. I've read better.
• Flood Tide by Clive Cussler: Guys would probably like it. I found the story to be exciting, but very far-fetched.
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini: Excellent. When's the last time you read a book set in Afghanistan?
• The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown: Not worth the hype.
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: Again, very good. Distrbuing relationships among cousins though, which was evidentially more acceptable in England back then.
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire: Another disappointing read. The story showed real promise in the beginning, but then sort of sputtered out toward the end.
• Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem: Not the kind of book you read cover-to-cover. I'll keep plugging away at parts of it throughout 2007 (or the rest of my life probably!)
• The Devil Wears Prada by Laura Weisberger: Funny and way better than the movie!
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd: Good, although I found the ending to be very predictable.
• Desiring God by John Piper: Still making my way through this one. So far, excellent.
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper: Not an easy read, but good. Definately a different style than I've read before. It's one of the oldest American novels...and better than the movie!
• Angelas Ashes by Frank McCourt: Disappointing.
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan: Okay. The book was a little hard to follow, and the character's lives were really all just very depressing.

Remember... you only get to read a limited amount of books in your entire life, so choose wisely!