What have you read lately?

What is a book you have read, say in the past year, which really made an impact on you?  A book that took you some place unexpected or opened you up to things you hadn’t considered before.  Maybe this book took you where you expected, but in a deeper way than you had previously experienced.  Maybe you disagreed with the author, but were called to examine why.  Maybe it took your imagination for such a ride it was very hard to stop reading.

If you didn’t catch it, I’ll admit it, I’m a book junkie.  I believe books can engage us in ways that other media cannot.  Reading a book is a very active endeavor.  It requires your time, energy, and thought.  It requires that you give something of yourself in order to get something in return.  Often reading a book is the closest thing we can get to a personal discussion with the author. 

So, what book has made an impact on you in the last year?  I might want to read it

Steve Jernigan