Here are some things I’ve read in the past two years or so:

On the trip to China I read two mysteries by Dorothy Sayers, two short stories by Tolstoy. (The Death of Ivan Illych and the Kreutzer Sonata), several short stories by Graham Greene, and the beginnings of a book (“Spero“) written by a friend of mine.

I’m still reading “Spero.”

Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American.” (finished)

Rudyard Kipling’s Captains Courageous (finished)

The Shack (finished)

On my vacation I read:  Halfway to Heaven (a book about a self-professed “fat 44 year old” author’s attempts to climb the 54 peaks in Colorodo over 14,000 feet.–thanks, Roger!  This was fun!)  Then I read “Glenn Beck’s Common Sense.” Interesting stuff.  Still need to read Thomas Paine’s CS in the back of the book.  I concluded with The Camel Club a political thriller.  It was entertaining if not a little far fetched in many of the details.

I read “The Last Thing I Remember” I think it’s supposed to be a young adult series.  It’s from the perspective of a highschool student who “wakes up” as a captive of unknown people in an unknown place.  As he struggles to escape, he also struggles to think about the “last things he can remember” and try to figure out why he is where he is.  Very entertaining–hard to put down.  I really like and respect the main character up to this point.

Notes From a Small Island –Bill Bryson  –couldn’t really get into and did not finish.

I recently re-read One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by A. Solzhenitsyn.  Excellent.

I finished his  “Cancer Ward.” It is not easy to read (technically or emotionally) but it is simply spectacular, imo. wow.

Just finished “Why My Wife Thinks I’m An Idiot” by ESPN Radio Sports-caster, Michael Greenberg.  Funny at times.  Often left me disappointed, though.

Just finished “Evil Under the Sun” by Agatha Christie (featuring Hercule Poirot)  Enjoyable–but I didn’t care for the “solution.”

Just read another Agatha Christie novel (without either of her two main characters) “The Pale Horse” with mention of Revelation 6:8.

I was given (for Christmas) and read over the “break” “The Ridiculous Race.“  At times vulgar and “frat boyish.”  At times humorous, entertaining and informative.

(finished) “The Gathering Storm.”  The twelfth book in a fantasy series I’ve been reading.

(Finished) Death On the Nile.

Christie mystery “Murder By Mirrors.” (finished)

“The Inheritance.”  The jacket described it as “Christie meets Grisham” (So murder mystery with court room drama)  Finished

“Taliesin“  by Stephen Lawhead.  The first of a series called the Pendragon Cycle about the rise of King Aurthur.  Quite good! (started May 16) Finished!

“Merlin” Book two in the “Pendragon Cycle”  (started May 26) Finished!

“Aurthur” Book three in the “Pendragon Cycle (started June 10)

I read “Holes” while on the beach last week.  Interesting.