Year of Books

Notes from ‘Game Over’

After hearing it talked about time and time again, I decided to give David Sheff’s ‘Game Over’ a read. A description of…

Notes from ‘Art and the Bible’

I was recently recommended a brief but complex book, simply entitled ‘Art and the Bible’ by Francis…

Notes from ‘Tribe’

As someone who has always believed in the value of community, I found Sebastian Junger’s ‘Tribe’ that not only confirmed my…

Notes from ‘The Prophet’

There is something beautiful, and almost magical, about the words inside Khalil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’. In fact…

Notes from ‘Do More Better’

I picked up Tim Challies ‘Do More Better’ yesterday, a book that’s been on my radar for a long while. Though I…

Notes from ‘Make Your Mark’

‘Make Your Mark’ is another book in the 99U series from Jocelyn Glei (of which I had previously read ‘Manage…

Notes from ‘Permission Marketing’

This weekend I randomly picked up Seth Godin’s classic business book ‘Permission Marketing’. Though…

Notes from ‘Rin Tin Tin’

I have been stunned at which books turn out to be my favorite, over the year. Undoubtably, Susan Orlean’s epic…

Notes from ‘Sapiens’

Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens’ is an uncomfortable book to read. It’s an unflinching look at what makes us who we are, and…

Notes From ‘The Power of Responsibility’

I stumbled across Joelle Casteix’s ‘The Power of Responsibility’ and decided to give it a…

Notes From ‘The Day I Was Crucified’

Earlier this year I read through Gene Edward’s ‘A Tale of Three Kings’, a story of brokenness…

Notes From ‘Digital Disruption’

I picked up James McQuivey’s ‘Digital Disruption’ on a recommendation, and indeed it’s one of the better…

This book was a total surprise. ‘Stuff Matters’ by Mark Miodownik was easily one of the most memorable books I’ve read all year, written by a person clearly fascinated by the world (and materials) all around him.

Well this was an amazing one. Steven Pressfield’s ‘The War of Art’ is one of the most inspiring books I’ve read in a long while. If you’ve never heard of it, click the link, buy the book, and get to reading. My notes are of little consequence, and every page is great, but if you…

Oh, ‘Gilead’. What an absolutely stunning read. This book, by Marilynne Robinson, was one of my favorite stories in a long while. Beautiful and sweetly sad, the novel is written as a letter from a dying father to his small son. The main character is a preacher, and his father was a preacher…

Gary Thomas’ ‘Sacred Pathways’ is an interesting read, a case that we are all built differently and because of this must interact with the spiritual world differently as well.

Robert J. Morgan’s 100 Bible Verses Everyone Should Know by Heart is an unusually titled book. It seems like this might be a simple collection of pithy verses, but nothing could be further from the case. In fact, the book is a…

Recommended to me by many people, Marie Kondo’s ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up’ is a beautiful read, and perhaps one of the most practical I’ve encountered this year to date. Subtitled ‘The Japanese Art of Decluttering and…