2010 Book List

At the beginning of 2010 I challenged myself to read more throughout the year. Over the course of the past year, I read 20 books, a result that I am very pleased with. After crunching the numbers, I discovered that I read 7,251 pages, which is an average of 139 pages per week, or 19.87 pages per day.

Books I Read in 2010:
Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944 -- The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War – Bill Sloan
From Peanuts to the Pressbox: Insider Sports Stories from a Life Behind the Mic – Eli Gold (My Review)
The Jesus You Can't Ignore: What You Must Learn from the Bold Confrontations of Christ – John MacArthur
The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America – Timothy Egan
Religion Saves: And Nine Other Misconceptions – Mark Driscoll
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One - Thomas Sowell
66 Love Letters: A Conversation with God That Invites You into His Story - Dr. Larry Crabb (My Review)
Firewall - Henning Mankell
The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek
Fading Echoes - Mike Sielski
The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *
Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion - Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck
ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery - Agatha Christie
Holy Vocabulary - Michael Kelley (My Review)
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum - Edward O'Donnell
BoneMan's Daughters - Ted Dekker
Riven - Jerry B. Jenkins
Race To The Pole - Sir Ranulph Fiennes
* I finished this book this year. I read over 3/4 of it in 2010 (well over 800 pages of it), so I am counting it.

My Stay Through Life

After successfully reaching the South Pole (the second group to have ever accomplished this feat and the first to do so without the aid of dog's or horses), Captain Robert Scott's team ran into terrible weather on their trip back to their home base. After several members became incapable of continuing on due to health reasons, it became apparent that the group's chances of survival was quickly fading due to the lack of food and fuel, which lay 11 miles away on the frozen plains of Antarctica. The following quote was written on March 22, 1912 by Lieutenant Henry R. Bowers in a letter to his mother. The letter was found in the tent next to his body, where he had died a few days after writing it.

"I am still strong and hope to reach this one (the depot) with Dr. Wilson and get the food and fuel necessary for our lives. God only knows what will be the outcome of the 22 miles march...but my trust is still in Him and in the abounding Grace of my Lord and Savior whom you brought me up to trust in and who has been my stay through life... There will be no shame however and you will know that I have struggled until the end."
- as quoted on page 332 in Race to the Pole by Sir Ranulph Fiennes