Apr
17
2010
This Week’s Bestsellers
I spent much of my week at or driving to the Together for the Gospel conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Though in the past I have simultaneously read and driven, I opted (wisely, no doubt) not to do so this time. I still managed to get some reading done this week, though not quite as much as I might have hoped. And not enough to make any significant headway through an increasing backlog of books.
Four new titles found their way to the bestseller list this week.
Starting out at #3 is The Bridge, a biography of President Obama and written by the editor of the New Yorker.
Right behind it at #4 is This Time Together by Carol Burnett. “The comedian describes her rise in show business and the people she’s met along the way.”
At #9 is Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Christianity, a massive 1200-page history of the church. As the girl said at the checkout of the bookstore, “Of course it’s big! It covers 3,000 years!” If I can read 100 pages per day, it will still take me 10 days to get through (since there are 200 pages of end matter). Interestingly, I also received (separately) the accompanying DVD series.
And finally, down at #13 is The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein. This will be the sixth book I’ve read on the financial collapse and bailouts. And I still barely understand what happened. That probably speaks more to my own ignorance than to the skill of these authors in crafting their accounts.
Looks like another busy week!