This week I read Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. My wife has been a big fan of Rivers for a few years now so it was inevitable that I would have to crack one open and check it out for myself.

I won’t do a review of the book, but I will keep this short and sweet for all the dudes out there.

Read It.

First off, your wife wants you to and that should be enough.

Second, it will encourage you in ways you never thought you needed to be encouraged.

Third, whenever you have the book open, your wife thinks you are the sexiest man alive.

Odds are the cover art will require you not read it in public. The one I had looked like it was straight out of the checkout stand at Vons.

I love reading. I didn’t used to until the summer after my first year of Bible college. College required a lot of reading and I was the photographic memory guy in high school that never read or did homework but still got a B on every test. College was a little tougher and I had to at least skim the books to do well on the test.

The high level of thinking and just plain better books than the junk they throw at you in high school sparked a more refined interest in reading for me.

I have been doing the goodreads.com thing for a while, I am going to try and keep up with it a little more. when ever I need an idea about a book, I cruise Mike’s bookshelf and fill up my ‘to read’ list.

Currently I am reading Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. Yes, it’s a girly book. My wife wanted me to read it…so I am. Although I can’t read it in public because the version I have has a cover that looks like the books with Fabio on the cover in the checkout stand.