It’s Monday! What are you Reading? & Mailbox Monday

It’s been a good-ish week for reading although there’s only one review for you.  This has been more of a writing week than a reading week though.  I’ve started working through The Artist’s Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self so have been doing a lot of writing and thinking.  I haven’t written anything truly creative yet – it’s mostly been stream-of-consciousness whining but I’m telling myself that this will come in time.  I’ve also signed up for a short OU course on creative writing – Start Writing Fiction – which begins in May although I may have to postpone until October if family things don’t go according to plan.

I seem to be much more restrained when it comes to acquisitions at the moment.  I won’t say I’m on a book diet but I have stopped automatically buying books for rewards and treats.  As a result, there are only two newcomers to my library this week

For the week ahead I’m going to continue alternating Christian fiction with Christian non-fiction as my Lenten practice.  I have to confess that this restriction is beginning to chafe now.  It has made me much more conscious of some of the wonderful secular books which are waiting on me.  I suppose it’s like a food diet – as soon as you say ‘no more chocolate’ that becomes the one thing you crave.

Books Read & Reviewed:

1. Amy Clipston – A Gift of Grace – 2011/012

Incoming Books:

1. Alexander McCall Smith – Blue Shoes and Happiness: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agence Volume 7 (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) [BookMooch]
2. J B Priestley – An Inspector Calls and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics) [Purchase]

The Week Ahead:

1. Carolyn Custis James – Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women [Currently Reading]
2. Claire Connor with G P Taylor – The Promise (Lipstick Confessions 2)
   
3. Noel Cooper – What Makes Us Whole: Finding God in Contemporary Life
   
4. Victoria Bylin – The Bounty Hunter’s Bride (Love Inspired Historical)
   
5. Douglas Leblanc – Tithing (Ancient Practices)
   
6. Erin Healy – The Promises She Keeps
   
7. Tom Wright – Surprised by Hope
   

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It’s Monday!  What are you Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by BookJourney.  Mailbox Monday is another weekly meme hosted in March 2011 by I’m Booking It.