Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Beach reading

Although I by no means expect to plow through all of them, these are the books I brought to the beach with me this week:



Into Hot Air: Mounting Mount Everest by Chris Elliott (read)



Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy (reading)



Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition (bathroom reading)



Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller (on deck)



Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith by Rob Bell



Searching For God Knows What by Donald Miller



The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

3 comments:

jasdye said...

"mounting mount everest"?
that's quite the kink there.

rock on looks like fun.

i loved the google-earth Dumb World. thanks for reminding me. gotta check it out again soon.

blue like jazz is cool (it's being made into a movie, btw, with steve taylor directing and co-writing. i think it's gonna be a LOT more fun than The Second Chance.) but searching for God knows what is one of my faves of all-time and much superior, imho.

and rob bell? a hero of my wife and i. that book helped change my life.

have fun.

Anonymous said...

I really liked Chris Elliott's last book. Let me know how this one was!

Micah said...

jasdye - Rock On was indeed a fun read, although I didn't really care for his accounts of how he'd speak to his co-workers. Maybe he indeed stammered a whole lot, but I didn't care to read all of that.

Yeah, I'd heard about the upcoming BLJ movie. In the meantime, I found out that a companion book to the original was just released.

I'll likely take a Miller break after this and read the Bell book.

srah - If you like Thwacker, you'll most likely dig the new one (Wendell's in it!). Same type of humor, but a different setting. I won't give anything away, but Elliott assembles a fun bunch of celebs to accompany him up the mountain. Reading this book makes me want a comprehensive, multi-season DVD set of "Get a Life" RIGHT NOW (it's being held up for some reason).