A bit of a Problem....

I have a problem...And it's a pretty lame one at that...I really like to read...

How lame does that sound?

So far in 2009, I've been on team read...Amanda and my friends said that's all I blog about now. So I'll pair it down a bit...

Here's a quick glimpse into the few that I've read in 2009 thus far...

The Audacity of Hope by President Barack Obama
Pretty good book. Will be looking forward to his book after his time in the Oval office.
Favorite lines of the book: "Identities are scrambling, and then cohering in new ways. Beliefs keep slippin though the noose of predictability. Facile expectations and simple explanations are being constantly upended. Spend time actually talking to Americans, and you discover that most evangelicals are more tolerant that the media would have us believe, most secularists more spiritual. Most rich people want the poor to succeed, and most of the poor are both more self-critical and hold higher aspirations than the popular culture allows. Most republican strongholds are 40% democrat, and vice versa. The political labels of liberal and conservative rarely track people's personal attributes."

Flight of Passage: A Memoir by Rinker Buck
A little dandy of a great adventure of two young kids in the 60s...Fix up an old Piper Cub and fly it to Southern California from New Jersey. Fun read.

Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh...Phenom book about an incredible lady, husband and former slave. Modern day story that will make you cry your face off. I read this book last Sunday. Yeah, just one day. I'm a tool but it's that good of a book. If you don't cry, you may not have a heart...

Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller
Another great cross country adventure...This time in a volkswagon bus. Nice read. Fun. Funny at times. Liked Blue Like Jazz better but nonetheless enjoyed this one as well...

Those are in the complete box of 2009...

I'm currently in the middle of Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and am also going through Francis Chan's Crazy Love with our small group. Both are drastically changing the way I view life...

2009 Reading List

I like to read. I read a bunch in 2008 and I want to continue that in 2009. Several of the books that I read this year were off the cuff. I didn't plan on reading them but I would pick them up at airports or borrow them from others. I'm going to take a different approach this year and make a list to stick to.

This list runs the gamut. Fiction, Non-Fiction, Literature, Biographies, Inspiration and a few classics...36 in total, average of 3 a month...

I have a few already but still need to get a bunch...If you want to hook a brother up with a gift or let him borrow one, that would be swell...

And in the spirit of the upcoming Inaguation, I'm going to start off 2009 with Nixonland and Audacity of Hope.

1. Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
2. Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
3. Einstein – Walter Isaacson
4. Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama (On the Shelf)
5. Getting Things Done – David Allen (On the Shelf)
6. Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
7. Good To Great – Jim Collins
8. Crazy Love – Francis Chan (On the Shelf)
9. The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the Whitehouse – Nancy Gibbs
10. The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
11. Hot, Flat and Crowded – Thomas Friedman
12. Screwtape Letters – CS Lewis
13. Same Kind of Different as Me – Ron Hall
14. Lions of Lucerne – Brad Thor
15. State of the Union – Brad Thor
16. Take Down – Brad Thor
17. Blow Back – Brad Thor
18. The Apostle – Brad Thor
19. Depression Economics – Paul Krugman
20. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith – Rob Bell
21. Machine that Changed the World: The Story of Lean Manufacturing – James Womack (On the Shelf)
22. Through Painted Deserts – Donald Miller
23. The Paths We Choose – Sully Erna
24. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time – Greg Mortenson
25. The Man Who Owns the News – Rupert Murdoch
26. Hemingway on Fishing – Ernest Hemingway (On the Shelf)
27. The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (On the Shelf)
28. 1984 – George Orwell
29. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
30. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
31. A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir – Donald Worster
32. The Working Poor: Invisible in America - David K. Shipler
33. Servant Leader – Ken Blanchard
34. Flight of Passage: A Memoir – Rinker Buck (On the Shelf)
35. Turnaround: How Carlos Ghosn Rescued Nissan – David Magee
36. The Wisdom of Listening – Mark Brady