2014 Books I Listened To

My annual list of books listened, mostly kept by me because I’m curious of the trends across time (see books label).

Awards

Sacred Clowns: Can’t Help Myself (listened to yet again)
The Center Cannot Hold: Outperformed Expectations
Rebel in Chief: Underperformed Expectations

1. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris
2. Death Comes to Pemberley - P.D. James
3. Devil's Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea
4. Death of a Scriptwriter - M.C. Beaton
5. A Black Hole is not a Hole - C.C. DeCristofano
6. Sacred Clowns - Tony Hillerman
7. Fueling the Planet - Michael McElroy
8. The Center Cannot Hold - Harry Turtledove
9. David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
10. Brewmasters' Art - Charles Bamforth
11. Zealot - Reza Aslan
12. The Heretic's Apprentice - Ellis Peters
13. Truman - David McCullough
14. The Glory of Their Times - Lawrence Ritter
15. Rebel in Chief - Fred Barnes
16. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
17. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber - Julian Rubinstein
18. LOTR: Two Towers - JR Tolkien (BBC)
19. Anglo-Saxon World - Michael Drout

2014 Books I Read

My annual list of books read, mostly kept by me because I’m curious of the trends across time (see books label).

Awards

The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes : Fan Favorite
Gorky Park : Outperformed Expectations
The Great Divorce : Classic all should read
Pursuit of God: Most likely affected me

1. Orthodoxy - G K Chesterton
2. Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
3. From Russia with Love - Ian Fleming
4. The Return of the Prodigal Son - Henri Nowen
5. The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes - Conan Doyle
6. The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
7. Revelations of Divine Love - Julian of Norwich
8. Breach of Trust - Tom Coburn
9. Pursuit of God - A.W. Tozer
10. When Helping Hurts - Corbett/Fikkert
11. White House Burning - Simon Johnston
12. Moonraker - Ian Fleming

Fingertips

Bowed head, eyes closed, in prayer, in confession. 

And there comes a hand on my left shoulder. Barely a hand. Fingers. Fingertips. Just barely registering. 

Eyes open, without turning my head a glance to the left, and see the right hand of my neighbor. Not hers. 

It matters not. Eyes close, confess. Confess. 

But who is it? Whose hand is that? 

It matters not. It is an angel. Return to prayer. 

But is it really an angel? Could it dare be. Do I really feel those fingertips. Is it just an illusion? A ghosting?

It matters not. Return to prayer. Confess. 

Physical or spiritual. real or Real. It matters not. The hand, the fingers, the fingertips of God rest on my shoulder. In this comfort, I am invited to return to prayer, to confession. 

Praise be to God, through whom all blessings flow.