Books

Several people lately have asked me for reading suggestions, as retirement has given me more leisure for such indulgence. Not that I really regard it like that. There are so many books in the world that I rather feel it's an obligation to get stuck in, although a delightful one.
I keep a notebook with titles I'd like to read at the back (probably noted from Saturday telegraph reviews in days when I had such a thing) and ones I've read in the front. Yesterday I finished my 42nd book in 2008. It was a biography of Dorothy Sayers, a complex creature who championed the Christian faith after WW2 without feeling any emotional involvement, which was probably just as well as her head ruled her heart, and her intellectual integrity stood. I liked one quote from her:

'At the Name of Jesus, every voice goes plummy'!!

I wonder do the voices in your church have a different sound within the building?

Here are my book suggestions:-
My Beautiful Career by Miles Kington
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
The Island by Victoria Hislop
On the Side of Liglig Mountain by Thomas hale
Swan River by David Reynolds
An Idler on the Shropshire Borders by Ida Gandy
Secret believers by Brother Andrew
Destiny Obscure by John Burnett
Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley
Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Foster
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini

I've read too The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing which I heard described on the radio as 'seminal', but for me it was a struggle, akin to reading Moby Dick! The ones I've listed are easier reading by far.