Karl's Reading List

Published by The Folio Society: London, 1976. First published 1855. Book 1 in 'The Chronicles of Barsetshire.' Followed by ' Barchester Towers. ' This is the third Anthony Trollope book I have read, and is the second of his Barsetshire Novels I have read, though in fact it is the first in that series. Barchester Towers , being the second book in the set, was the only one of his that I owned when I first read it, and fortunately worked as a stand-alone. It is interesting returning to Book 1, now, though, as I have more insight into the motivations of various characters in that second book! But anyway, for those who haven't read either: The Warden follows the story of Septimus Harding, the titular Warden of Hiram's Hospital, as well as a precentor in Barchester Cathedral. Hiram's Hospital was set up generations earlier based on a bequest from a John Hiram, who asked that twelve elderly men would be looked after in the role of "bedesmen", with the War...

Published by Multnomah Publishers/Random House, Inc.: Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. Elise and I, both separately and when we got married, have collected a number of relationship books, often using them as references or reading sections, but not generally getting through the whole book. Recently, we had the privilege of running our first pre-marriage counselling session for a younger couple in our church, and hunted out our books both to resource ourselves and to offer resources to them. Long story short, I then picked up this book and decided I'd have a go at reading it in its entirety. I recommend doing so. For Men Only is the companion book to For Women Only, which was written by Shaunti Feldhahn as a solo author, helping women understand their men a little better. In this book, Shaunti joins with her husband to write the flipped version, helping men understand their women a little better. Both books (I believe, from what Elise has mentioned of the other book) contain numerous polls th...