{"id":881,"date":"2008-12-19T07:50:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T14:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=881"},"modified":"2017-12-30T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T18:37:05","slug":"the-top-10-books-i-read-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/the-top-10-books-i-read-in-2008","title":{"rendered":"The Top 10 Books I Read in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the best books I read this year:<\/p>\n

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  1. \"HealingOdd Thomas<\/span><\/a> by Dean Koontz – Fantastic thriller<\/li>\n
  2. Freak the Mighty<\/span><\/a> by Rodman Philbrick – Great for junior high students<\/li>\n
  3. Five Pillars of the Spiritual Life<\/span><\/a> by Fr. Robert Spitzer – Grow spiritually in the midst of a busy life<\/li>\n
  4. What’s So Great About Christianity<\/span><\/a> by Dinesh D’Souza – Explains Christianity to modern skeptics<\/li>\n
  5. Praying the Word: An Introduction to Lectio Divina<\/span><\/a> by Enzo Bianchi – Learn how to pray with the Bible using this small but powerful book<\/li>\n
  6. Journal of a Soul: The Autobiography of Pope John XXIII<\/a> – Absolutely beautiful<\/li>\n
  7. Jesus of Nazareth<\/span><\/a> by Pope Benedict XVI – So good I read it twice<\/li>\n
  8. Peace of Soul<\/span><\/a> by Archbishop Fulton Sheen – Eminently practical and helpful<\/li>\n
  9. Abandonment to Divine Providence<\/span><\/a> by Jean Pierre de Caussade – a true classic; read it to discover God’s will for you<\/li>\n
  10. Healing the Culture<\/span><\/a> by Fr. Robert Spitzer – Required reading for everyone who cares about our culture: Read this book and your life will change.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    These are the best books I read this year: Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz – Fantastic thriller Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick – Great for junior high students Five Pillars of the Spiritual Life by Fr. Robert Spitzer – Grow spiritually in the midst of a busy life What’s So Great About Christianity by Dinesh D’Souza – Explains Christianity to modern skeptics Praying the Word: An Introduction to Lectio Divina by Enzo Bianchi – Learn how to pray with the Bible using this small but powerful book...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1024,36],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-annual-favorite-reads","tag-book-recommendations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/healingtheculture.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-ed","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}