One of the things I love most about vacations is getting plenty of time to read. Here are some of the books I recently finished along with a brief takeaway from each (I know these comments won’t do the books justice…hopefully they are enough to pique your interest (all links are affiliates)):
The Fault in Our Stars Though life is fleeting, love is worth it. I loved the witty dialogue in this book, but at the end I felt like I had just read Ecclesiastes without the good parts. |
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The Meaning of Marriage |
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The Blame Game |
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The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God |
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Ender’s World |
Okay, I couldn’t resist including some other books that I recently read (just not during my recent vacation) for good measure:
Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility |
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Street Smarts Helps get you into the mind of an entrepreneur. Figure out your life plan before figuring out your business plan! |
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The Decision Maker The leader’s role is to empower others to make decisions, not to make decisions for them. The book is a parable showing what could happen in a world where business leaders focused on empowering others to make decisions instead of making them themselves. |
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Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind In Christ are found all treasures of wisdom and knowledge and hence, we should expect our personal knowledge of him to inform all our intellectual endeavors at their essence, not as an add-on. |
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Found in Translation My research using computers to translate human languages left translation feeling rather mechanical and antiseptic to me. This book reminded me of how colorful and human the act of translation is. |
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator |
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The Queen The second to last book in a series of thrillers by Steven James, this one shows the different ways people deal with guilt and points to forgiveness as the only true hope. |
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Lean In This book helped me understand some of the challenges women face in building a career. I found some of the ideas in the book absurd (e.g. in aiming for equality, the author mentions the idea of husbands being able to fulfill the child nursing role), but it was helpful to widen my perspective and to help me empathize with female colleagues. |