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Tim Challies has started a new blog over at the Gospel Coalition. He calls it 10 Million Words<\/a>. His goal? To review from a Christian perspective every book that appears on the New York Times bestselling non-fiction books list in 2010. To warm up, he has started doing some already. The guy is a phenomena. Here is how he introduces it:<\/p>\n

My wife thinks I\u2019m a little bit crazy, I\u2019m sure of it. During eleven years of marriage I\u2019ve done a lot of things that have led her to roll her eyes and sigh. I guess she is getting used to it, though, because even she is interested in what I am planning to do in 2010. I plan to read all of the New York Times bestselling books over the course of the whole year. Do the math and you\u2019ll see that this will come in at somewhere around 10 million words . . .<\/p>\n

America\u2019s bestselling books tell us, I\u2019m sure, who America is, who her people are, at this time and place. Surely they will give me a glimpse into the world\u2019s most powerful, the world\u2019s most fascinating nation . . . They will provide, I\u2019m sure, a snapshot of where America is at as she enters a new decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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