About a month ago, I posted about how even though I would like to read books about marriage and relationships, have trouble getting through them.
This week, I had the idea that if I commit to reading a few of those books and blogging about them, that should provide some accountability to actually start and finish some recommended readings on marriage. I will commit not only to read them, but to journal through them and write one (or more) posts on my response. These posts won't be reviews, per se, in that my aim is to write what I'm learning rather than to critique the books. After all, this blog is about marriage and what it is teaching me, and I am certainly no expert!
For now, I'm aiming to read and blog about five or six marriage books in 2013, so that I'll still have time to read the fiction and history books that I love. To start with, there are five books that I think would be beneficial, and that I already have (except Keller's book, which is available at the library) but I'd love your input. Which one should I read first? What would you like to see when I blog about them? Do you have any further recommendations? Feel free to leave a comment saying which book I should start off with, and why, or else vote via my new sidebar poll.
Tentative list:
Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages (a gift from my wedding shower. Update: See my post here.)
Linda Dillow, Creative Counterpart (recommended by Jayme)
Hayley DiMarco, The Fruitful Wife (which I read about here)
Timothy and Kathy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage (Update: See my post here.)
Gary Thomas, Sacred Marriage (a gift from my wedding shower)
I have read all of them except Hayley DiMarco's and they are all fabulous! Another one to recommend is "The Art of Marriage", but man, that one scared me! Not in a "frightened me" kind of way, but in a "woah, marriage is a really serious thing" kind of way. Maybe because it was one of the first that I read on marriage? After that, I might have been sufficiently scared, so the rest didn't seem to bad!
ReplyDeleteCan't go wrong with reading any of them!