I have made a list and a goal; follow me on my reading expedition in 2008!

Read: 

1. A Place of Quiet of Rest – I truly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who needs to reconnect with the Lord.
2. I Am Legend – Awesome. Infinitely better than the movie.
3. Good News About Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World – Very good.
4. Feminine Appeal – Probably my favorite book on Titus 2.
5. I Am America (And So Can You!) – If you like the show, you will love the book.
6. Anger: Handling a Powerful Emotion in a Healthy Way – Good. I enjoyed it and plan on reading it again.
7. The Hiding Place – Such an amazing novel.
8. Humility: True Greatness – It was good but so short! I wish it would have been longer.
9. Three Cups of Tea – Very good.
10. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto – SUCH a wonderful book. I want to buy several copies just so I can hand them out to people.
11. Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World: Finding Intimacy With God in the Busyness of Life (Revised Edition with New Bible Study) – Very good. I am excited to read the follow up to it.

Reading:

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason – (taking a pause for crappiness. will resume reading at a later date)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War – This book is awesome. I can’t wait to finish it.
My Utmost for His Highest – Our favorite devotional.
Bible
Isaiah (The Crossway Classic Commentaries) (The Crossway Classic Commentaries)
Isaiah: God Saves Sinners (Preaching the Word) (Preaching the Word)
Isaiah 1-39 (Mastering the Old Testament, Vol 16a)

Future:

Seeking Him – Nancy DeMoss
Having a Mary Spirit – Joanna Weaver
Vintage Jesus – Mark Driscoll
Death by Love – Mark Driscoll
All of Grace – Charles Spurgeon
Just Give Me Jesus – Anne Graham Lotz
How People Change – Paul Tripp
A Hunger for God – John Piper
Preaching the Cross – John Piper
When I Don’t Desire God – John Piper
Confessions – Saint Augustine
Instrument in the Redeemers Hands – Tripp
Desiring God – John Piper
Future Grace – John Piper
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell – Tucker Max
Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, A  – W. Phillip Phillip Keller

GOAL: 50 books!

11/50 or 22% completed

Since cookbooks are very different from the novels or non-fiction I normally read, they won’t count towards my goal but I would like to at least give cookbook commentary since it is my new passion.

Cookbooks Read in 2008:

1. Crazy About Cupcakes – Very awesome. I haven’t tried any recipe yet but they look amazing and seem to be great recipes. I bought the book the week after I got it out of the library. It was too good not to have on my shelf.
2. Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75 Dairy-Free Recipes for Cupcakes that Rule – Very awesome. The idea is wonderful and even my dear Chockylit gave her own recipe to the book! But, I don’t really care for Vegan cupcakes. There are a couple that I will give a go though (Margarita Cupcakes here I come!)
3. Quick & Easy Vietnamese: 75 Everyday Recipes – Does not seem so quick and easy but I still am excited to try out a few of the recipes.
4. The Everything Thai Cookbook – Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! I made 3 recipes from it and all turned out yummy! This is such a keeper!
5. The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics -
6. About Professional Baking: The Essentials (Trade Version) – Wonderful! Definately a recourse you want on your shelf!
7. The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry, 4th Edition -
8. The Petit Appetit Cookbook – Ok. I prefer Feeding the Whole Family.
9. The Well-Decorated Cake – An amazing reference book. I plan on buying it in the future when I have moved on from buttercreams to fondant but in the mean time she has some superb recipes in the back of the book and they are worth buying the whole book for!