Looking for some summer reading? Join me as a plunge into this these books (listed in no particular order to add a random element of surprise). Happy reading!
- Wednesday Wars, Okay for Now, Just Like That by Gary D. Schmidt.
- Companions in the Darkness:Seven Saints Who Struggled with Depression and Doubt by Diana Gruver
- Table Mentoring: A Simple Guide to Coming Alongside by Sue Moore Donaldson
- Organic Mentoring: A Mentor’s Guide to Relationships with Next Generation Women by Sue Edwards and Barbara Neumann
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything by Anne Bogel
- Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison
- The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting in an Age of Isolation and Incivility by Heather Holleman
- Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable and Engineer the Unexpected by Tania Luna and Leeann Renniger
- Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love by Ed Welch
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
- Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
- Tell Me the Dream Again: Reflections on Family, Ethnicity, and the Sacred Work of Belonging by Tasha Jun
- Hotel Oscar Mike Echo:A Novel by Linda MacKillop
- Ordinary Creativity: How to Survive with Joy by Heather Caliri
- The Life We’re Looking for: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World by Andy Crouch
- Shakespeare:The World As a Stage by Bill Bryson
- Paris the Novel by Edward Rutherford
- Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
- Leadville, USA by Ed B.Larsh and Robert Nichols
- Blackout, All Clear, and To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis