Last Year's Books

My poor, neglected blog. One of my goals for this year is to write more; we'll see how that goes. To start:

Last year was a very long, strange year, and I kept terrible track of what I read. I also have a lot of started books, either because they are for my church history classes (homeschool and high school) and we're not through church history yet, or because I had trouble focusing on finishing books for a while (a long while, so I have a lot of partly-finished books to read this year), so this book list is just a mix of what I read that I remembered to record and that I enjoyed.

In no particular order:

1. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider. It's true; I judge a lot of people by their bookshelves.
2. The Law of Kindness by Mary Beeke
3. Royal Deceptions by Fred Butler, about the King James Only controversy
4. Trusting God by Jerry Bridges. I think I've read this 4 times (or more), and every time there's something for me to gain.
5. The Battle of Seattle by Douglas Bond. This was really fun to read.
6. Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. I enjoyed the story and learned more history.
7. On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, one of the sequels to My Side of the Mountain
8. Side by Side by Edward Welch
9. The Crystal Tree by Jennie D. Lindquist. This is the third in the series, and I have loved them since I was a child.
10. Applesauce Needs Sugar by Victoria Case, a lovely and often humorous memoir of farm life a hundred (or so) years ago.
11. Brother Hermitage’s Christmas by Howard of Warwick
12. The Short, the Long, and the Tall by Jeffrey Archer
13. Anatole by Eve Titus. Actually, I read 4 Anatole books this year, and read them regularly. They are popular books with my friend's children, and I read them to the kids every time I visit.
14. Getting Over Yourself by Dean Inserra. I wrote a book review on this. Go find it.
15. Being a Writer by Travis Elborough and Helen Gordon
16. Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques
17. The Tunnel King by Barbara Hehner, about the Canadian involved in the Great Escape (the movie is good as well).
18. What’s Your World View? By James N Anderson
19. Why Children Matter by Douglas Wilson
20. A Vessel in the King’s Hand by Abigail Froese. One of my former Sunday School students wrote this. It's very good; go read it.
21. Kings and Queens of England, A Dark History by Brenda Ralph Lewis. There is, of course, a lot of torture and beheadings. Also, my high school history class now uses "hunting accident" as a euphemism for "killed by a sibling who wanted the throne".