That unmentionable thing again ...
The early-bird rate is almost finished for the EQUIP conference this year, so I have just registered. It’s always a great day! (Even better with the twilight session, if you ask me :) ... because that means that I can get up at a respectable Saturday time, get organised (maybe even jog), do the washing and admin, then go and relax, instead bustling off first thing to the city and leaving the mess for later.) I am involved in the book club this year (well, I’m actually not up until January next year) and have been allocated the book Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? by Carolyn McCulley. I have a small and secret (at least it was till I blogged it) dread that I might become one of those “singleness” people, which is not something I particularly aspire to (don’t know too many people rushing out to be experts in the field!) but if you are single, then you should read this book. I am glad that I am not first up on the book list because I am keen to see how this is all going to work.
It’s an interactive book club, not an exhaustive book review, so it is perhaps not imperative that I read other books out there on the subject, but I thought I would try anyway. So, I have ordered Fine China is for Single Women Too, by Lydia Brownback over here, and will read The Single Issue by Al Hsu. I’m also going to read The Path of Loneliness by Elisabeth Elliot again. I was reading this post recently, which interviews Wendy Alsup, from Mars Hill Church in Seattle, and I was reminded me that it’s a great book, and that, while I have read it about five times already, perhaps it’s time to get it out again. I also came across Jean’s 2008 book list today, which looks good too.