The first Long & Short Reviews prompt this year asks reviewers about new books we're looking forward to reading.
This will be a short one. It feels as if it ought to be a Top Ten List, but I'm not aware of that many forthcoming books I'm really looking forward to reading. So I'll say that the new-to-me book I'm reading, with interest, is the next volume of Michelle Warren's New Kind of Zeal trilogy.
It was written some years ago, and speculates about what might happen if someone really, literally did what Jesus would have done in a hypothetical future New Zealand. The character Joshua doesn't just commit to being a better neighbor. He organizes a religious group, many of whom appear to be homeless beach bums, of people who behave very well but point out errors in both the organized church's and the government's policies. Let's just say that volume one did not end with Joshua happily married and leading a growing business. Volume two tells what the survivors do about it.
I think Americans really should read more books from the other English-speaking countries. Long & Short Reviews has a certain natural tendency to support this practice, although I found A New Kind of Zeal in the Book Funnel. (Where Warren did not opt into the spam scheme, I'm glad to say; she does send out newsletters, and does take time to make each one worth reading.)
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