I just finished two books:
1.)
RECHURCH: Healing Your Way Back To The People Of God by Steven Mansfield
https://www.amazon.com/ReChurch-Heal.../dp/1414333285
2.)
On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne
https://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Peng.../dp/0141399252
The first is a pretty standard treatment of what to do when you've been hurt and offended by people in the church, and need to get up out of the dumps about it and rejoin the Body of Christ. Nothing inherently wrong about any of it, but it came across more like typical platitudes than actual revelation and insight.
The second is from the Penguin Books "Great Ideas" series, and is a collection of essays written by the author, translated into English. Nothing particularly captivating about any of them, although a key point made in the titular essay is that, you can't go off looking for solitude, if the thing you are running from is yourself. I liked that little nugget.
Now, I'm reading a translation of Leo Tolstoy's
Confession. I've been on a book buying splurge as of late. At this rate, I'm going to need another bookshelf, the way they are piling up!
I'm still reading Montefiore's
Jerusalem but it's kind of dragging right now. I'm somewhere around the Crusades. Not sure if I will push through or just move on and come back to it, yet.