[Cider Jim]

My problem is I am a very slow reader. It takes me forever to go through books.

JDUB mentioned on FB that he's looking for some good audio books. Sounds like our most recent alumnus will begin "reading" with his ears.

[ATrain]

A Million Miles In A Thousand Years - Miller
Essential Church - Rainer

Those are the two I have now. I'm interested to see how Chan's new one (Fear God) is going to be when it comes out in July.

Thanks for reminding me about Miller's book SJ, that's also on my bookshelf waiting to be read.

[Th3rd]

Currently Reading:
Tuck - Stephen R. Lawhead. It is the end of the King Raven series
Radical - David Platt. My old youth pastor gave it to me and encouraged me to read it
The Good News We Almost Forgot - Kevin DeYoung. Like his work with Ted Kluck so giving this book a chance and its very impressive so far
Why We Love The Church - Ted Kluck and Kevin DeYoung. Really got this one more because i liked the Why We Aren't Emergent book
Forgotten God - Francis Chan. I have had it sitting on the shelf for awhile and finally getting time to read it
Irresistible Revolution - Shane Claiborne. Started it awhile ago and finishing it up
Burn - Ted Dekker. Got it for Christmas and just now getting time to read it

I'm sure there are others as well that will be added to the list, summer is normally when i get caught up on all of the reading i have wanted to do for the past year haha....

Sly you threw me off with the Pistol Pete reference as well and I had to go back and re read the post... I thought you were talking of the basketball player, not the tennis player. Though last year I read Pete Maravich: The Authorized Biography of Pistol Pete by Wayne Federman and Marshall Terrill and is was an excellent read... such a tragic story and I really do wish the Pistol was still with us today... He is the player that I will always say was the best to ever play the sport of Basketball

[ALUmnus]

Forgotten God - Francis Chan. I have had it sitting on the shelf for awhile and finally getting time to read it

This is the free audio download this month over at ChristianAudio.com (https://christianaudio.com/free)

I used the free download last year to "read" Crazy Love by Chan.

[phoenix]

I love ChristianAudio's free audio books. They offer really good books there.

[WinterIsComing]

I'm terrible at reading more than one book at a time, unless it was for school. I know some people read a bunch of books at once. But I also know that whenever I list off the books "I'm reading" it's really just a list of books I intend to read over the next year or so. I look at some of these lists and that's alot of books. Some of them pretty heavy stuff.

So two questions;

Honestly, are you guys reading all those books at once?

And if so, HOW?! Props definite props, but seriously, were you homeschooled and had that photographic memory chip placed in your brain? My girlfriend was and she laughs at me that I can only read one book at a time.

[ALUmnus]

I barely have time or the brainpower to read one book, so I definitely can't read multiple books at once.

[ATrain]

Most of them are on my planning to read list. Will probably be done with that list by the end of August, if not earlier.

[Th3rd]

I'm terrible at reading more than one book at a time, unless it was for school. I know some people read a bunch of books at once. But I also know that whenever I list off the books "I'm reading" it's really just a list of books I intend to read over the next year or so. I look at some of these lists and that's alot of books. Some of them pretty heavy stuff.

So two questions;

Honestly, are you guys reading all those books at once?

And if so, HOW?! Props definite props, but seriously, were you homeschooled and had that photographic memory chip placed in your brain? My girlfriend was and she laughs at me that I can only read one book at a time.

Most of them are on my to do list, but I do read at least 2 books at a time if not 3... its honestly just what I'm in the mood for at the time that I want to read

[phoenix]

So two questions;

Honestly, are you guys reading all those books at once?

And if so, HOW?! Props definite props, but seriously, were you homeschooled and had that photographic memory chip placed in your brain? My girlfriend was and she laughs at me that I can only read one book at a time.

I usually read a couple books at a time. I attribute it to my slight OCD -- I get really into a book, and read it almost non-stop, but then something else catches my attention and I start it, too. They have to be books that are pretty different, too -- I tried to read two spy novels at the same time and kept getting plot points mixed up.

Normally, I've got one nonfiction, one fiction, and one young adult (that I read to my daughter before bed) going simultaneously. If I'm getting in a bind because of book reviews, I can do more, but that seems to be my safe limit.

And I wasn't homeschooled.

[phoenix]

My summer reading list:

For June
Philosophy and Education by George R. Knight
P.R.A.I.S.E. -- Effectively Guiding Behavior by Beth Ackerman
Classroom Management For Middle and High School Teachers by Edmund T. Emmer and Carolyn M. Evertson
Behavior Management: A Practical Approach for Educators by James Walker
Introduction to Middle School by Sara Davis Powell

Knight, Ackerman, Walker, and Powell are finished. I probably should have included Nancy Pearcey's Total Truth on here as well, since it was required for my Philosophy of Ed class, but I read it a few years ago, so all I had to do was a quick skim to refresh my memory.

[JDUB]

My problem is I am a very slow reader. It takes me forever to go through books.

JDUB mentioned on FB that he's looking for some good audio books. Sounds like our most recent alumnus will begin "reading" with his ears.

It's a great way to use time in the car. Also, most are abridged so they take out some of the blah blah and get to the point faster. I can also put them on my phone and listen to them whenever with headphones. I can go through books much quicker this way by doing 2 things at once.

[Cider Jim]

Reminds me of my PE professor friend who used to buy those Reader's Digest Condensed Books at yard sales for his home library (which is not good way to impress an English prof).

[JDUB]

some people learn by seeing, some by hearing. I learn best by hands on experience but audio is second I guess. I have a short attention span.

[RubberMallet]

book snobs who make fun of people who listen to books on tapes i find are boring people who have lots of time on their hands.....or English teachers....if the latter, more often than not also the former.

[ALUmnus]

I've listened to a few audio books, and I always count it as a book read. Sometimes though, when the subject matter is a little deeper or the language/writing style a bit more complex, I have a hard time concentrating on the audio. I listened to Notes From Underground on a road trip I took up to Ottawa several years ago, and while I enjoyed it, it was really hard to concentrate on that while driving. I tried listening to The Divine Comedy at work, and I just couldn't get very far.

[Sly Fox]

For years I have had people come up to me and tell me they'd love to hear me reading for audio books. But I haven't been able to break into that relatively small but expanding business. It'd be great to be paid to read.

[phoenix]

I don't do audio books that often, but when I do it counts as a book read IF it's the unabridged version. My problem is that I usually read right before bed, and I fall asleep listening to audio books.