New Zealand reading list/ January selections

Greetings.

So i'm in new zealand on tour now and I've brought a stack of books to read through hopefully at some point or another and they are as follows:

Fiction:
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Clock Without Hands: A Novel by Carson McCullers
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Nonfiction:
Mother Theresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta edited and with commentary by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C.
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence For Belief by Francis Collins
Jesus: Made in America: A Cultural History From the Puritans to the Passion of the Christ by Stephen J. Nichols
The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found by Frederich Buechner
The Genesee Diary: Report From a Trappist Monastery by Henri Nouwen

Driving and reading in New Zealand is about impossible as the roads are quite curvy and bumpy as well, so I've not been able to read and drive. I've actually been carsick the entire week but not enough to be "sick" but just enough to be "this sucks".

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There has been a major shift in my reading since starting this blog, and that is a new found love of fiction. I love it now and cannot wait to study the classics and such. While reading Graham Greene's novel above my stomach literally hurt from the beauty I was taking in. I couldn't understand why my friend recommended it to me and why William Faulkner would call it "the most moving novel of my time in any language" until the halfway point at which I was assaulted with all I can describe as beauty. As a writer myself it's what I hope to give to others but man, the way some of the writers write all I can do is set a book down and thank God for creativity and beauty. I couldn't read anything the day after as I was still reeling from what I had just read then i quickly finished The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers, who is now my favorite writer, and again have yet been able to start another fiction book until I recover from the story I was just living inside. All this to say I am like a child at an amusement park, looking forward to every book, every story, that will come well recommended.

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To be honest I've yet to read December's selection of The Catcher in the Rye as my library never had it in stock and I don't want to buy it. So forgive me but I will read it when I return. For January, I recommend two books to you, one fiction and one nonfiction.

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Yes, it's about an affair and at first like I said I was bummed and then something in the story happened that blew my mind. And it went from one thing to another, one place to another. To sum up the ideas it's about the relationship between love and hate, love and jealousy, and the searching for the love of god (or rejection of the love of god). So it gives you ideas of romantic love and then explores the relationship of hating and loving god, bitterness, rejection, etc. This book has cemented the idea for me that classic fiction writers were just as consumed with the idea of God than any other idea. Many books I am encountering are exploring Him in one way or another, and this has really surprised me.

Mother Theresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta edited and with commentary by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C
If this book were to be weighed on content it would outweigh easily all of the above books mentioned. This book is still so powerful, moving, confusing, inspiring, enlightening, that I can't yet express anything of it to you. For now suffice it to say that these are Mother Theresa's private writings to her superiors, and what they reveal is nothing that anyone thought her to think and feel. A woman convinced of the love of Jesus and a life dedicated to Him, tormented by what she sees as her separation from His company.

Until then,
Bradley