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My Summer Reading List

365.4Did I mention here that I got a Kindle? Yep, my wonderful husband surprised me with one for Mother’s Day. Over at his sports blog for at least the second year in a row there is a post where lots of people list what books they plan to read this summer. It’s interesting to me since the community there is mostly guys with a few sports minded gals. A surprisingly huge number of lawyers are super active in that community too, and they like to read.

So with my new Kindle they assure me I will do a lot more reading and I believe them. So I’ve created a rather ambitious (for me) list of books I’d like to read before the summer is over. You’ll notice I prefer non-fiction. I also have a penchant for business and marketing books, and books on Christian living. Here goes:

1. Crazy Love by Francis Chan. Our Life Group is reading this so I’ve already started.

2. 1000 Gifts by Ann Voskamp. I started this but never finished. It is SO good.

3. Quitter by Jon Acuff. Just finished another of his books and it was awesome.

4. Bossypants by Tina Fey. I have heard great things about this one.

5. The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield. Although I have read sections of this, I’ve never read the whole thing.

6. Linchpin by Seth Godin. Seth is the master.

7. Ignore Everyone by Hugh MacLeod. Notice a trend here?

8. Don’t Make Me Come Up There by Kristen Welch. Already bought my friend’s book, just haven’t read it yet.

9. Content Rules by C. C. Chapman. Cuz he rocks.

10. Today We Are Rich by Tim Sanders. I heard Tim talk a few times and I’m totally buying whatever he is selling.

So now I want to hear what YOU are planning to read this summer. Tell me in the comments. And if there are any fiction titles you think I would really LOVE, please let me know.

This post is linked up over at Amanda’s Top Ten Tuesdays!  52D7ADH2XJT8

Amazon Supports the Rights of Pedophiles

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One of hundreds of books I’ve bought on Amazon

Yes really. First thing this morning my friend Cecily shared a link to an e-book, “The Pedophiles Guide to Love and Pleasure” asking Amazon if they really thought it was ok to carry such a book. Reading the author’s description of the book made my stomach turn. Just be to be sure it was legit, I checked the author’s other books, which include “The Grand Delusion”, a book about how God doesn’t exist, and another book about sex and flesh. So I, along with THOUSANDS of other tweeters, called for Amazon to pull the book down from their site.

We tweeted. We blogged. We called Amazon to complain. We emailed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. When many of us received similar responses from Amazon that they refused to stop selling the book because they did not believe in censorship, we began to alert mainstream media outlets and government officials. Mom bloggers did not take this lightly, at all. Many many bloggers removed their Amazon stores and affiliate links from their blogs.

I know of people who closed their accounts with Amazon today. I know people actually boxed up and returned Kindles and other recently purchased Christmas gifts. I was planning on buying a Kindle…not anymore. Annually I spend several hundred dollars on Christmas gifts at the site. Not anymore.

Amazon does not allow porn on their site, so they are already censoring. This is a really stupid business decision on their part.  I’m done with them, AND the companies they own, including Diapers.com and Zappos. That’s right, I’m giving up on shoe buying from the best online shoe retailer in existence. I hope you will stand with me for what’s right in this case.