On Becoming a Disciple-Scholar, edited by Henry B. Eyring

I have to be honest, I only read this book because it was sitting on our shelf, and I'm trying to read through some of the religious books on our shelves that I've never read. This is one that Tommy brought to our marriage, and he says he'd never read it either. And once I started reading it, and realized it's just a collection of talks given at BYU to the Honors students in the years of 1994 and 1995, I thought, well, we mayyyy not end up keeping this one. It was very meaningful and had a lot of good things, however. Elder Neal A. Maxwell's talk about discipleship and scholarship was particularly good, about how there are different levels of truth and how we don't need to distinguish between faith and scholarship. The other one I really enjoyed was about Elder James E. Talmage and his experience with writing Jesus the Christ, and his many qualities that allowed him to succeed at that (not giving up, not being distracted by worrying about what others thought of him, etc.). One of the themes that stuck out in this book is that humility and meekness are hugely important qualities for a scholar--going along with the scriptures cautioning people for not thinking they are too wise. I loved these men, who all have highly important callings (and could in other realms be ambitious or think highly of their own situation), reinforcing the importance of humility and showing how much they have thought about and value those qualities. It was definitely a good read, but not the most engaging of books to sit and read straight through.