Take & Read / Spiritual Reading: An Annotated List by Eugene H. Peterson (Eerdmans, 1996, pb, 122pp)

I’m a huge Peterson fan so I don’t know how on earth I overlooked this work of his first published in 1996, but I do know this now: it’s good stuff and it’s precisely what my library and I need. Through the years I’ve majored in acquiring commentaries and various reference works and have only minored in other materials. However, over the past several years I’ve begun to feel the inadequacy of that course of acquisition. I should have double-majored so as to have a more well-rounded set of counsel surrounding me. But where to start building up that minor aspect of my library? How can I lest some very good man guide me?

Well, here is the man and here is the guide. Reliable and ready, clear and concise, experienced and insightful. In this guide you’ll find over 270 books recommended in 20 categories ranging across the ages from basics to classics, poets to prayer, novels to history, and more. Each book is linked to a paragraph of comment about them by Peterson, the comments themselves often containing “gold.” Lo, it even has an index, two actually, one by author and one by title.

Some of the names will be quite familiar to you and some will surely be brand new, and in either case, some even surprising. A quick count told me that I have read/owned only about three dozen of those mentioned, with a dozen of those being by Peterson himself. Shame on me. As I repent I can hear the money trickling out of my account right now. But, I strongly suspect that this book will save me, and you, much more and will steer us toward wealth of a far greater kind. And here’s an Amazon link to make its acquisition easy for you: http://amzn.to/cHV2xQ