Summer Reading

One of the people I chose to interview about books was my mother Lynne Marschke. Most of the books that haves impacted her life are Christian based. The first book she mentioned was the Bible "because it is the living and active word of God" She first started reading the Bible in depth in her early thirties when she was newly married and living in the university town of Chapel Hill, separated from family and close friends, while her husband (my Dad) was doing a fellowship for the University, and continues to read the Bible today. Other books that she mentioned were books by author Karen Kingsbury who writes many Christian Fiction books. She said "Her stories are interesting and family centered and it's interesting seeing truths through the perspective of others lives." She started reading Karen Kingsbury's books about 10 years ago and keeps up with reading the new books that she releases.
"I also love reading inspiring biographies or autobiographies." One specific biography she mentioned, Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham, by Patricia Cornwell. "I love hearing the back stories of people that I admire, who have lived lives of goodness and excellence." One other book that she recommended to me was The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, which she read when she was in her mid-forties and "raising children and dealing with the usual ups and downs of life."

The other person I chose to interview was my Dad, Keith Marschke. The first two books he recommended to me were The Great Santini and The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy. He read both of these books when he was 31, before he had kids and when he was engaged to be married. One thing that he really liked about The Great Santini was the father son relationship. He related a lot to the father son relationship in the book and it made him think about how he wanted to be as a father. What he liked about The Lords Of Discipline was that it reminded him a lot of his relationships with his friends and his time in college.
The other book he recommended was In His Steps by Charles Sheldon, which was special to him because it started the "What would Jesus do?" movement, which was important to him and his Christian walk. It also effected what he thought about his role in society and how he acted in his community. This was significant to what was going on in his life because he was playing a bigger role at work and he was teaching in the church.