Wednesday, May 7
Full of four stars…
When I read books I use a red pen and mark the heck out of the pages. I underline and bracket and write notes in the margins (maybe questions, things I disagree with, notes for a teaching somewhere down the road).I also have this little ‘star system’ I use. Nothing complicated, kind of like the movie rating system. I make little star symbols next to a line or paragraph I really like, and use one, two, three or four stars to categorize it, with four being the best.
Once or twice a year I come across a book that really sucks me in very unexpectedly. Usually it happens with a book I wasn’t expecting to be good, something I hadn’t looked forward to, a book I just stumble across...
And then, and many of you can testify to this, I find myself trying to convince everyone in the world to read it…now.
Last year it was ‘Forgotten Ways’ by Alan Hirsch…(In fact, I recently found about 10 copies of this one at the $5 book store here in town. I’ve been giving them away like crazy)
Here’s the one that is currently overwhelming much of my thinking…The Tangible Kingdom by Hugh Halter & Matt Smay.
Let me tell you, I don’t know if I’ve ever used as many ‘4 Star’ labels in the margin…
Go, buy it now…
Mark Nelson at 10:58 AM 2comments
2 Comments
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at 10:33 PM
ragamuffinminister said... I give this post 3 stars. You wouldve gotten 4 but I don't want it to go to your head.
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at 7:55 AM
Mark Nelson said...
very nice Jeph...