{"id":12849,"date":"2020-02-21T05:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=12849"},"modified":"2020-02-21T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:30:07","slug":"are-you-looking-for-something-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=12849","title":{"rendered":"Are You Looking for Something Good To Read?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One thing I love to do is resource other people with good books. That means I read a lot and then try to mention some of the best of the bunch in case that will spur other people on in their own reading. To that end, here are a few of the books I&rsquo;ve read recently, accompanied by miniature reviews. (And, in case nothing here strikes your fancy, I&rsquo;ve got two other round-ups from 2020: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/looking-for-something-to-read-brief-book-reviews\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">number one<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/looking-for-something-good-to-read-10-book-suggestions\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">number two<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957<\/em> by Frank Dik&ouml;tter<\/strong>. I may have mentioned before that I have a bit of a fascination with early communism. As so many in Western nations begin to lean toward socialism, I find it increasingly interesting and increasingly necessary to look to history to see how that has worked out for others. <em>The Tragedy of Liberation<\/em> is the second volume (but first in chronology) by Frank Dik&ouml;tter that examines the early years of the Chinese Revolution, in this case 1945-1957. The book is a tale of endless woe, endless suffering, and endless horrors. In that way China matches (or maybe even surpasses) the other communist regimes of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I love to do is resource other people with good books. That means I read a lot and then try to mention some of the best of the bunch in case that will spur other people on in their own reading. To that end, here are a few of the books I\u2019ve read recently, accompanied by miniature reviews. (And, in case nothing here strikes your fancy, I\u2019ve got two other round-ups from 2020: number one and number two.) \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":12859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[750],"class_list":["post-12849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-resources","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/eli-francis-_M-DrbiNFa4-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12861,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions\/12861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}