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:
- I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider. It's true; I judge a lot of people by their bookshelves.
- The Law of Kindness by Mary Beeke
- Royal Deceptions by Fred Butler, about the King James Only controversy
- 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.
- The Battle of Seattle by Douglas Bond. This was really fun to read.
- Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. I enjoyed the story and learned more history.
- On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, one of the sequels to My Side of the Mountain
- Side by Side by Edward Welch
- The Crystal Tree by Jennie D. Lindquist. This is the third in the series, and I have loved them since I was a child.
- Applesauce Needs Sugar by Victoria Case, a lovely and often humorous memoir of farm life a hundred (or so) years ago.
- Brother Hermitage’s Christmas by Howard of Warwick
- The Short, the Long, and the Tall by Jeffrey Archer
- 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.
- Getting Over Yourself by Dean Inserra. I wrote a book review on this. Go find it.
- Being a Writer by Travis Elborough and Helen Gordon
- Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques
- The Tunnel King by Barbara Hehner, about the Canadian involved in the Great Escape (the movie is good as well).
- What’s Your World View? By James N Anderson
- Why Children Matter by Douglas Wilson
- 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.
- 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".
