- How many books did you read and did you meet or beat your own personal goal?
I read 66 books. I beat my personal goal of 52.
2.What are your top 5 (or more) favorite stories? Top 5 least favorites?
TOP 12 (or 15 if you count the trilogy)
15. Of Virgins and Martyrs: Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict (ER)
19: Booked:Literature in the Soul of Me
26. Waiting for God (ITC)
38. Call the Midwife (all three in the trilogy)
40. The Reading Promise
54. This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral and Valet Parking
56. Heidi
58. Silence, Solitude, and Simplicity
60. Persuasion (second time but loved it all over again)
64. Divine Conspiracy (third time finally did it!)
65. Searching for God Knows What
66. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
BOTTOM 5
2. Dandelion Wine (SBC)
5. A Year of Biblical Womanhood (SBC)
16. Warrior: Fighting for Your Faith, Family, etc (ER)
28. The Twilight of the Idols (ITC)
3. One book you thought you would never read and was pleasantly surprised you liked it?
If I can say "one book I thought I would never REread and was pleasantly surprised," I would say The Divine Conspiracy. Willard is so intellectual he makes my head hurt, but I was surprised at how much more I grasped this time around and understood his heart.
4. Most thrilling unputdownable book?
It was not "thrilling," but I loved Silence, Solitude, and Simplicity because it was right where I was at. I read it while on a prayer retreat, and I ate it up. So wise and profound.
5. Did you come across a story that you enjoyed it so much, you turned around and read it again or plan on rereading it again in 2014?
I could see my self rereading Silence, Solitude, and Simplicity on a yearly basis.
6. One book you thought you would love, but didn't?
A Year of Biblical Womanhood
7. Which book or books had the greatest impact on you this year?
Silence, Solitude, and Simplicity
Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me
Divine Conspiracy
Searching for God Knows Wha
8. Do you have a favorite cover or quote from a story you'd like to share?
9. What book would you recommend everyone read?
Silence, Solitude, and Simpicty and Divine Conspiracy or Searching for God Knows What - Divine Conspiracy is really hard for some people.
10. What was your most favorite part of the challenge? Did you do any of the mini challenges?
The discipline of writing a review for every book. No, did not do any mini-challenges.
Here is the whole List:
Here is the whole List:
JANUARY
1. Les Miserables - Radio Family Theatre (ER)
2. Dandelion Wine (SBC)
3. Pensees by Pascal (ITC)
4. Pocket Your Dollars (ER)
5. A Year of Biblical Womanhood (SBC)
6. The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico (ER)
7. Institutes of the Christian Religion: Book I (ITC)
8. Keeping Christ in Ministry (ER)
9. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
FEBRUARY
10. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
11. The Catcher in the Rye (BD)
12. Institutes of the Christian Religion: Book II (ITC)
13. Practicing God's Presence 24/7
14. Getting Out of Bed in the Morning (ER)
15. Of Virgins and Martyrs: Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict (ER)
16. Warrior: Fighting for Your Faith, Family, etc (ER)
MARCH
17. Institutes of the Christian Religion: Book III (ITC)
18. Institutes of the Christian Religion: Book IV (ITC)
19: Booked:Literature in the Soul of Me
APRIL
20. Apologia Pro Vita Sua (ITC)
21. The Second Shepherds' Play (ITC)
22. The Federalist (ITC)
23. The Fast Diet
24. I am Nujood: Age 10 and Divorced
25. Four Quartets (ITC)
MAY
26. Waiting for God (ITC)
27. Life of Johnson (ITC)
28. The Twilight of the Idols (ITC)
29. My Foot is Too Big for the Glass Slipper
30. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (ITC)
31. Doctor Johnson's Prayers (ITC)
32. The Temple (ITC)
34. Fear and Trembling (ITC)
35. Go Down, Moses (ITC)
JUNE
36. Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson (ITC)
37. Watership Down (BD)
38. Call the Midwife
39. Happier at Home
40. The Reading Promise
JULY
41. Swann's Way (abridged audio)
42. Swann in Love (abridged audio)
43. Forty Days with the Messiah
44. Handel's Messiah: Comfort for God's People
45. Out of the Silent Planet
46. Call the Midwife: Shadow of the Workhouse
AUGUST
47. Till We All Have Faces
48. Perelandra
49. The Fifth Season: A Daughter-in-law's Memoir of Caregiving (ER)
50. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End
51. That Hideous Strength
52. Be Myself (Warren Wiersbe Autobio)
53. Forgotten God
54. This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral and Valet Parking
SEPTEMBER
55. The Great Gatsby
56. Heidi
OCTOBER
57. Walden on Wheels
58. Silence, Solitude, and Simplicity
59. Three Men in a Boat
60. Persuasion
NOVEMBER
61. The King Jesus Gospel
62. The Daughter's Walk
63. The Christ of the Indian Road
DECEMBER
64. Divine Conspiracy
65. Searching for God Knows What
66. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
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