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Thursday, January 02, 2014

2013 Book 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)
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)
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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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

2013 Reading Wrap Up

  1. 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:
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)
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)
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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Sunday, December 30, 2012

2012 Complete Reading List with Links


What a fun year!

What a fun year! 

ABBREVIATIONS KEY:
ITC - Invitation to the Classics List
GB - 100 Great Books List
SBC - Suburban Book Club
BB or BD - Book Babes or Dames
ER - Early Reviewer

JANUARY
1. Animal Farm (BD/GB - 9.5)
2. Hanna's Daughters (BB - 8)
3. The Broke Diaries (BB - 7)
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God (BD/GB - 9.5)
5. The Shape of the Eye (BB - 8)
FEBRUARY (lots of reading on vacation!)
6. Tom Sawyer (GB - 9.5)
7. Othello (GB)
8. Julius Caesar (GB)
9. The Awakening (GB)
10. King Lear (GB)
11. Romeo and Juliet (GB)
13. Billy Budd (GB)
15. Daisy Miller (GB)
16. Ethan Frome (GB)
17. David Copperfield (GB)
18. Brave New World (GB)
19. The Tempest (GB)
20. Macbeth (GB)
MARCH (Spring break reading!)
25. The Crucible (GB)
28. Lord Jim (GB)
29. Song of Years (BB 6 - 3 months to read!)
30. Lord of the Flies (GB)
31. Candide (GB)
37. The Pearl (GB)
APRIL
41. Steppenwolf (GB)
42. The Bluest Eye (GB)
46. Missions and Money (KC)
SEPTEMBER
79. The Joy Luck Club (GB)
82. Sons and Lovers (BD/GB)
83. Faust: Part 2 (GB/ITC)
84. A Separate Peace (GB)
86. Peace (ITC)
87. The Frogs (ITC)
OCTOBER
89. All the King's Men (GB)
90. The Plague (GB)
91. A Farewell to Arms (GB)
92. Catch-22 (GB)
93. House Made of Dawn (GB)
94. Twelfth Night (GB)
96. Dubliners (ITC)
97. Nichomachean Ethics (ITC)
98. Prayer Walk (ER)
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

2011 Books

I don't think I am going to get through the books I am currently reading before the end of the year. So, I will post these here. Not as many books this year, but many of them were the finishing up of The Well-Educated Mind list. So, they were TOMES and very difficult reads!

KEY:
TWEM = The Well-Educated Mind
BABES = Book Babes - my monthly book club that I have been in since January 2001
DAMES = Book Dames - my bimonthly book club that is an offshoot of Babes and reads classics (inaugurated in June of 2005)



JANUARY
1. A Distant Mirror by Tuchman (TWEM)

FEBRUARY
2. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Womersley-TWEM)
3. TrueFaced: Trust God and Others with Who You Really Are
MARCH
4. Democracy in America (Heffner-TWEM)
5. The Road to Wigan Pier (TWEM)
6. The Last Lecture (Babes)
7. All the President's Men (TWEM)
APRIL
8. The Runner's Field Manual
9. The Blindside (Babes)
MAY


10. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (TWEM)


11. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (TWEM)
12. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, 1785-1812. (TWEM)


13. A Painted House (Babes)
JUNE

14. Light on Snow (Babes)

15. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Babes)

16. Theophostic Prayer Ministry Basic Manual Revised

17. TPM Ministry Demonstration Training

18. TPM Ministry Student Workbook

19. Leadership Essentials

20. Images of God for Young Children

JULY
21. The End of History and the Last Man (TWEM)

AUGUST
22. Treasure Island (Dames)
23. Roll, Jordan, Roll (TWEM)
24. All Creatures Great and Small (Babes)
25. Blink of an Eye (Babes)
SEPTEMBER
26. Wives and Daughters (Dames)
27. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Babes)
OCTOBER
28. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Babes-Amazing)
29. Year of Fog (Babes)
30. The New England Mind: Colony to Province (TWEM)
31. The Christ of the Indian Road
32. The Divine Conspiracy (May have just been three chapters for our ministry but a post in 2012 here says I read it twice by then!)
33. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (Babes)
34. Bold Spirit: Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America (Babes)
NOVEMBER
35. The Gulag Archipelago (TWEM)
36. A Voice in the Wind (Babes)
37. Little Princes (Babes)
38. American Nightingale (Babes)
39. Runaway Bunny
DECEMBER
40. Rim of the Prairie (Babes)
41. Left to Tell
42. Handel's Messiah: Comfort for God's People
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Sunday, January 09, 2011

2010 Reading List (includes individual poems and books of the Bible)



"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" was one of the poems I read.

I can't believe I have waited so long to post this
JANUARY
1. "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" (short story)
2. Dinner with a Perfect Stranger
FEBRUARY
3. The Bad Back Book
MARCH
4. Church Planting Movements
5. Houses that Changed the World
6. Sarah's Key
7. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by Blake
8. Outliers
APRIL
9. So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us
WORDSWORTH
10."Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"
11."The Idiot Boy"
12."It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free"
13."I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
14."Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"
15."Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-tree"
16."Lines Written in Early Spring"
17."London, 1802"
18. "Lucy Gray"
19."Ode:Intimation of Immortality"
20."She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"
21."Simon Lee"
22."The World is Too Much With Us"
MAY
23."How Much Land Does a Man Need" by Tolstoy
24."Enoch Arden" by Tennyson
COLERIDGE
25."The Eolian Harp"
26."This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"
27."Dejection:An Ode"
28."Kubla Khan"
29."The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
30."Christabel"_____________
31. Acts
32. Falling Leaves
33. Romans
34. 1 Corinthians
35. The Quran translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
36. The Prelude by Wordsworth
ROSSETTI
37. "Better Resurrection"
38. "A Birthday"
39. "After Death"
40. "A Christmas Carol"
41. "The Convent Threshold"
42. "De Profundis"
43. "Dream Land"
44. "Goblin Market"
45. "Good Friday"
46. "Maude Clare"
47. "Monna Innominata"
48. "The Prince's Progress"
49. "Remember"
50. "Sister Maude"
51. "The Three Enemies"
52. "Up Hill"
53. "When I am Dead my Dearest"
TENNYSON
54. "Dying Swan"
55. "The Lotos Eaters"
56. In Memoriam A.H.H.
_____
57. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
JUNE
KEATS
58. "Hyperion: A Fragment"
59. Endymion
HOPKINS
60."God's Grandeur
61. "Pied Beauty"
62. "The Caged Skylark"
63. "The Windhover"
64. "Carrion Comfort"
65. "No Worst"
66. "The Wreck of the Deutschland"
YEATS
67. "A Prayer for My Daughter"
68. "The Cap and Bells"
69. "Down by the Salley Gardens"
70. "Easter 1916"
71. "The Coming of Wisdom with Time"
72. "The Lake Isle of Inisfree"
73. "Lapis Lazuli"
74. "Leda and the Swan"
75. "The Magi"
76. "Memory"
77. "Sailing to Byzantium"
78. "The Second Coming"
79. "The Secret Rose"
80. "September 1913"
81. "Three Things"
82. "The Wheel"
83. "When You Are Old"
84. "The Wild Swans at Coole"
85. "The Fiddler of Dooney"
AUDEN
86. "As I Walked Out One Evening"
87. "The Common Life"
88. "Compline"
89. "Epitaph on a Tyrant"
90. "The Fall of Rome"
91. "In Memory of Sigmund Freud"
92. "In Memory of W.B. Yets"
93. "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love"
94. "Lullaby"
95. "The More Loving One"
96. "On the Circuit"
97. "Propero to Ariel"
98. "September 1, 1939"
99. "The Shield of Achilles"
100. "Under Which Lyre"
101. "The Unknown Citizen"
102. "Walk After Dark"
LARKIN
103."Annus Mirabilis"
104. "Aubade"
105. "Deceptions"
106. "Essential Beauty"
107. "Far Out"
108. "High Windows"
109. "I Remember, I Remember"
110. "The Importance of Elsewhere"
111. "Is It for Now or for Always"
112. "Long Sight in Age"
113. "Modesties"
114. "The Old Fools"
115. "Story"
116. "Since the Majority of Me"
117. "This Be the Verse"
118. "To Put One Brick Upon Another"
119. "Toads"
120. "Why Did I Dream About You Last Night"
121. "To My Wife"
HEANY
122. "Blackberry-Picking"
123. "Bogland"
124. "Casualty"
125. "Digging"
126. "Death of a Naturalist"
127. "Field Work"
128. "Hailstones"
129. "The Haw Lantern"
130. "Lightenings"
131. "The Ministry of Fear"
132. "Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication"
133. "Personal Helicon"
134. "Poets Chair"
135. "Squarings"
136. "Tollund"
137. Idylls of the King by Tennyson
138. Journal of a Solitude
139. Essays of Montaigne, Screech translation
140. Ecce Homo by Nietzsche
141. The Communist Manifesto
142. 2 Corinthians
144. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
145. The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
146. Galatians
147. Be Free
148. Ephesians
149. Be Rich
150. Philippians
151. Be Joyful
152. Surprised by Joy
153. Colossians
154. Be Complete
155. Holman New Testament Commentary: Galatians-Colossians
JULY
156. 1 Thessalonians
157. 2 Thessalonians
158. Be Ready
159. 1 Timothy
160. The Picture of Dorian Gray
161. 2 Timothy
162. Titus
163. Philemon
164. Be Faithful
165. Hebrews
166. James
167. War and Peace
AUGUST
168. The Art of Racing in the Rain
169. Captains Courageous
170. The Pursuit of God (a favorite)
171. The Longest Day (amazing book, must read)
172. The History of England: Volume 5
173. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Gandhi
174. 1 Peter
175. Be Hopeful (1 Peter)
176. 2 Peter
177. 1 John
178. 2 John
179. 3 John
180. Jude
181. Be Alert (2 Peter, 2,3 John, Jude)
182. Be Real (1 John)
SEPTEMBER
183. Mein Kampf
184. Seven Story Mountain
185. Revelation
OCTOBER
186. Same Kind of Different as Me
187. Life Application Bible (NIV)
188. The Prewrath Rapture Position Explained: Plain & Simple
189. Final Questions:Vital Questions for Every Person on Earth
190: Be Victorious
NOVEMBER
191. The Worst Hard Time
192. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
193. Man's Search for Meaning
194. Picking Cotton
DECEMBER
195. The Book Thief
196. The Veil
197. The Great Crash of 1929
198. Skeletons on the Zahara
199. Sing a Song of Gladness
200. God is Good
201. A Christmas Carol (audiobook)
202. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
203. Desiring God
204. Devil in the White City
205. The Help
206. Life is Good
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