Good and inexpensive books are hard to come by these days. I found one today.
I was at Salvation bookstore browsing to see if there was anything interesting and worth buying. Lots. Only thing that held me back were the prices.
Then I saw this guy walk up to one of the shelves to add in some new books. The cover of the top book looked familiar.
After he walked off, I went by for a closer look.
Philip Yancey’s Reaching for the Invisible God.
I remember reading about the book when it was first released and thinking it was quite expensive. So I turned to the outside back cover to check the price.
RM16.00 (approximately USD4.00).
Inexpensive. Very inexpensive.
Of course, I took a copy.
Later, when I checked the publishing page for more information, I found that it’d been printed in the Philippines.
No wonder so inexpensive. Third World printing.
Not that it matters. What matters is that the publishers shared the savings with their customers. As can be expected of a Christian publisher. Zondervan.
This is my third Yancey book.
My first was What’s So Amazing About Grace?, which I found really helpful. My second was Where Is God When it Hurts?, which my brother had recommended at a time when I was having difficulty adjusting to mother’s ill-health. It helped, too. Lots.
A colleague had commented that she found it hard to read Yancey. I don’t have that problem. But then I do need to be in the right frame of mind to read and understand difficult stuff.
I look forward to delving into this, my third Yancey book. Not yet, tho. I’m reading another book bought today – The Path of Loneliness by Elizabeth Elliot.