The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. This was a recommendation from Craig (Hi!), since I'm constantly saying "You need to read ______!" he felt like he could make a suggestion for my list. So, Haruhi. I want to try and explain what this book was about, but I'm afraid I will just confuse you, since I was confused for the vast majority of the book. Suffice to say, Haruhi is a teenager who is in possession of extreme power that she's unaware of, and her unlikely friend Kyon is responsible for making sure she doesn't accidentally end life as they know it. I spent the first half of the book confused and a little scarred, but after finishing it and having a few days of distance from it, I liked it! It was weird. Really weird. But once I got to the end and saw where the author was trying to go with all the weirdness? It kind of worked. I might read the rest of them. All in all, not a bad book to spend an afternoon with.
Click. This was a book I picked up for a dollar at a thrift store because it had Eoin Colfer on the list of contributing authors (I could talk for days about Eoin Colfer and how much I love his books, but for now, just take my word for how brilliant he is, and go read Artemis Fowl). Click is a story written by ten different authors, each writing their own chapter, and almost every chapter having a different narrator (The exception being that the first and last chapters are both from Maggie's point of view). Click's main plot is the death of a photographer Gee Keane, and his grandchildren's journey to find out who he really was and in that process, figure out who they are going to be. I'd tell you more, but it would ruin some of the mystery that makes this book so delightful. It feels a bit like a choose your own adventure story, with unexpected twists and bizarre turns, ending up in a totally different place than you started out. Every character has a story, and every story is connected to Gee, and Gee is never quite what you expect him to be. It asks some really good questions about what makes each of us, well, us. What makes me different from you? Why are we unique? What makes us different from each other, but still connected? I really quite enjoyed this little novel, and will probably come back to it, and will definitely be passing it along.
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Spiritual Leadership: Henry and Richard Blackaby
Reaching Out: Henry Nouwen
Unceasing Worship: Harold Best
The Dangerous Act of Worship: Mark Labberton
Silence: Shucaku Endo
Christ Centered Worship: Bryan Chapell
Mere Christianity: CS Lewis
Culture Making: Andy Crouch
Works of Love: Soren Kierkegaard
Awake: Noel Brewer Yeats
Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith
Blue Like Jazz: Donald Miller
The Last Little Blue Envelope: Maureen Johnson
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