Reading plan 2012 (subject to changes)

This blog does not try to be a collection of exhaustive book reviews; it is rather a listing of books that I read possibly with few notes. If you stumble upon to this blog of mine, know that it is meant primarily for personal use.

It is already February, when I came up with an idea to start some kind of listing of books that I read (thanks Bogdan for inspiration). Also I heard from our research professor about a method to do a listing about book in different categories that should be read every year. I do not yet know how many books should I put into each list, but I try to estimate roughly and then adjust the list after a year or so. Identifiers or keywords are arranged according to the categories.

Each short review will consist of introduction, good and bad sides of the book, to whom I'd recommend it. I'll also give a grade on a scale of 1-5.

One final note: I am a seminary student, so I am obliged to read certain books, which might distort the statistics. Here is my list of planned readings (categories, and actual books if I have planned to read certain books):

Church and ministry (5 books)

Fiction (12 books)

Tolkien: The Hobbit (I already read it few days ago)

Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (started)

8 other books

Inspirational (dump category)

Leadership (5 books)

New Testament Theology or Commentaries (5 books)

Old Testament Theology or Commentaries (2 books)

Personal development (6 books)

Pastoral Ministry (3 books)

Pedagogy (5 books)

Philosophy (5 books)

Veith: Postmodern Times (already reading)

Photography (3 books)

Systematic Theology (5 books)

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Total: 60 books

I managed to maintain a pace of about book a week for several years, thus reading about 50 books a year. Recently I have been lazy, and need more discipline in this sense. This blog is meant to inspire me and also help to follow through this challenge of reading like I used to.

I should also mention that I am doing my thesis about demonology at the moment (due june 2013), so I left out that category altogether, because I will be reading plenty of those books. However, I will include those books in my reports in this blog, but keyword them as 'thesis'.

Now, back to the books!