Spiritual Formation

This week I am on a one week Spiritual Formation retreat which is the first course of my Masters. I got the syllabus the other day, and there are 5 books to read, and 9 essays to write. I have to have two of the books read before the retreat, and 3 of the essays written before the retreat. The books I have to read are:
Richard Foster, Prayer, (276 pages).
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (122 pages).
Bradley Holt, Thirsty For God (129 pages)
M. Robert Mulholland, Shaped By The Word (166 pages)
James Bryan Smith, A Spiritual Formation Workbook, (82 pages).
(In the syllabus they tell us how many pages each book is! Cool huh!)