Books I Won't Read, But Find Interesting

Two pages in the USA Today this week jumped out at me. The first was an article about Christian fiction writer Karen Kingsbury. She is the reigning queen of Christian fiction. She usually writes five manuscripts a year! She wrote "Ever After," the winner of the Evangelical Christian Publishers award, in five days!! I won't read her books because they're geared towards women. Sue Bower, her editor at Zondervan says, "She reaches into you, rips out your heart and helps mend it with stories." Though I won't read Karen's books, I do enjoying "reading" her life story. Karen Kingsbury and husband Donald have adopted three children from Haiti to go along with 3 of their own. Now that's a good read.
The other page that leaped from USA Today was a full page ad for Pastor Joel Osteen's new book. It was the title that caused me to say to myself, "Self, you don't need to read this. The title tells me to focus to much on you." The title is "Become a Better You, 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Everyday." Maybe I'm being picky, but this is what I find so often the wrong emphasis about evangelical Christianity, it's all about me! This is one of the biggest cultural influences in our lives. It's the idea that everything should revolve around me. Now I'm sure Joel will talk about Jesus, but there's nothing on the cover of the book that indicates that. So just based on the title I won't be picking this book up to read.
These are the days my friend,
Jim "Train"