{"id":159,"date":"2009-10-05T14:30:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvmen.org.uk\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2016-01-06T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T13:20:29","slug":"recommended-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/office-life\/recommended-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We like books at CVM. We all like to read, and read widely across books, blogs, magazines etc. &#8230; There are always books floating around on coffee tables and desks here at the office and emails bounce back and forth with recommendations and suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>We also toss around ideas of books to write, and if one day we ever complete all the ideas we start with we&#8217;d have a publishing house-size collection of books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What To Read<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With so many books out there we know, painfully, that there are good books and there are not-so-good books. So I thought that we could sit down and create a list of books that would be worth reading. A sort of map-through-the-minefield to help avoid some of the stuff that quite frankly is not worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>So the internal-chatter has started and my list is growing and soon we will have a CVM Recommended Reading list, with books across a variety of subjects to help men in their faith.<\/p>\n<p>But before we get there I thought I&#8217;d throw it out there for <em>your<\/em> recommendations. Which books have been of benefit to you? Would it be a work from C. S. Lewis? Or perhaps an older classic like <em>Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress<\/em>? Maybe there&#8217;s a study tool or perhaps a biography that you constantly recommending to friends?<\/p>\n<p>Let us know!<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/office-life\/recommended-reading\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png?w=750\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like books at CVM. We all like to read, and read widely across books, blogs, magazines etc. &#8230; There are always books floating around on coffee tables and desks here at the office and emails bounce back and forth with recommendations and suggestions. We also toss around ideas of books to write, and if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27,30,148],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PoLK-2z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6336,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/demolition-squad\/books-on-apologetics-worth-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":159,"position":0},"title":"14 Books on Apologetics Worth Reading","date":"18 September 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of years ago we highlighted some apologetics books worth reading. As we were putting the finishing touches to the new Demolition Squad apologetics book (out next month!) we thought it would be good to include a list of further, recommended reading. Here is that list for you.\u00a014 apologetics\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Demolition Squad&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/apologetics-books-you-should-be-reading.jpg?fit=966%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7836,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/thoughts-from-the-cvm-team\/how-to-be-a-man-of-success-this-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":159,"position":1},"title":"How to be a man of success this year!","date":"1 January 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Have you ever noticed the flurry of books and self-help guides to transform you into 'the man' that will rise to the top in this world? There are loads. At the start of the year this stuff is all the more visible. How to earn more, how to excel in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Team CVM&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/man-of-success.jpg?fit=565%2C350&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6272,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/thoughts-from-the-cvm-team\/pride\/","url_meta":{"origin":159,"position":2},"title":"Pride","date":"1 September 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the search options that Google have developed is the Google Ngram viewer. This search allows you to look at words in books and their frequency that Google have stored on their mega brain somewhere in a cloud. The range in years is from 1800 \u2013 2008 and whilst\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Team CVM&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1812,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/news\/new-cvm-website\/","url_meta":{"origin":159,"position":3},"title":"New CVM Website","date":"1 October 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"We are really excited to announce the brand new CVM Website! You will notice too that we now have a new domain - www.cvm.org.uk. All our old traffic will automatically redirect to our new domain. 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