Initial Conditions

Apologies, for this is a bit late.

Last year, I put up a list of books that I wanted to read in 2008. I didn’t succeed. Here is the list, and beside them I have written whether or not I read them:

“The Trial” by Franz Kafka: read, but didn’t really get

“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain : Didn’t read

“Mere Christianity” by CS Lewis: read and enjoyed

“The Case for Christ” by Lee Strobel: didn’t read

“Eureka! The Birth of Science” by Andrew Gregory: read and enjoyed

“Inside Out” by Larry Crabb: didn’t read and didn’t even buy or borrow it

“God’s Undertaker” by John Lennox: nope

So even the meagre number of books I intended to read didn’t get read, often because I read other books in the course of the year that weren’t on the list.

So, I would like to present my 2009 list. I’m going to try and avoid buying any others!

Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus

Live & Let Die/ Moonraker double bill by Ian Fleming

The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

From Russia with Love /Dr. No/ Goldfinger triple bill by Ian Fleming

The First Man by Albert Camus

God’s Undertaker by John Lennox

Tor! The Story of German Football (I won’t try and spell the author’s name!)

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (a big one to finish!)

This amounts to a wopping 3500 pages of literature to be read! As such, I think it highly unlikely that I’ll get these done before I come to write again next year, but it’s a good thing to aim for, no?

Also, if any of these are stinkers, please tell me so I can omit it!

3500 pages. Best get started (Bible not included in this project, though I shall be reading that as well)!