Having finally finished one of my two ongoing book reviews (pause for cheering), I can now pick a new review to start. Also, I now seem to be only a few chapters from the end of Walking Disaster, which, even at the rate I go, means that at some point in the just-about-foreseeable future I should (hey, let’s think positive here) also finish that one and be able to pick a second new one to review. So… what should be next on the agenda?

The first one’s simple enough; years ago, I came across a second-hand copy of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, and decided that this absolutely needed a full-on snarkreview. Then Walking Disaster came up as an option because I had the idea of doing it in parallel with Jenny Trout’s review of the companion book, and Deciphering The Gospels because Price donated me a free copy, and so both of those ended up jumping the queue. Having finished one of those, I can now finally start TMWSHF, so that’s the one that’s next up.

As to which book should replace Walking Disaster when the joyous time comes that I complete that as well, I have an entire list of options in mind. Here, as best I can remember (and no doubt I’ll remember something else after hitting ‘publish’), is the list of books I’d potentially like to deconstruct/snarkreview at some point:

• Midwives – Chris Bohjalian (about homebirth/midwifery in the US)
• Lila – Robert Persig (sequel to his more famous Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, and not nearly as good)
• The Little Voice – Josh Sheldon (supposed to be about self-actualisation or some such, seems to be largely ‘privileged guy whinges about stuff he doesn’t want to do’)
• Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas – James Patterson (badly-thought-out romance novel)
• Beyond Choice – Don Baker (dreadful and fortunately obsolete anti-abortion book)
• The Daughter Of Time – Josephine Tey (a re-examination of the Princes in the Tower case which, while a vastly better book than some of the drek on this list, could definitely do with some re-examining of its own)
• The Surrendered Wife – Laura Doyle (never actually read this, but it looks worth a takedown)
• On The Historicity Of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason For Doubt – Richard Carrier (self-explanatory, but do note that this one is not going to be any time soon, as I definitely need a change of pace at this point)
• Too Good To Be False – Tom Gilson (apologetics book)
• The Unexpected Legacy Of Divorce – Judith Wallerstein (a research project on the effects of divorce on children; I want to write about why I disagree with her widely-cited conclusions)

Readers, I would love to hear what thoughts you might have here. It’s not a vote; I’ll pick when the time comes based largely on convenience/practicality/how I feel at the time. But there’s some wiggle room there and I’d still be interested to know if anyone has any thoughts on any of the above. And I’d also be interested to know if any of you have had moments of looking at a book and thinking ‘If only some skeptic would volunteer to take this book’s argument apart; I would so like to read that!’ because, well, I make no promises, but I’m at least somewhat open to suggestions. What say you?