Books and Lists : )

   I got this wonderful idea from a friend of mine, SuperAngel, to post the list of books I've read in the past year : )  Sadly,  I didn't keep quite as good of track toward the end of the year, but here are the ones that I did keep track of.  I divided them into three categories, Chocolate and Ice Cream, Cheesy Potatoes, and Educational--which translates into Fun, Fun and Inspiring, and well, Educational   The Educational category wasn't neccessarily not fun to read, it just took more brain power, which is good for me : )

Chocolate and Ice Cream

Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor Porter

Dawn by Eleanor Porter

Miss Billie by Eleanor Porter

That Printer of Udell's by Harold Bell Wright

The Stouthearted Seven--Orphaned on the Oregon Trail Neta Lohnes Frazier

Belles on Their Toes by Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley

Elsie's Children  M. Finley

The Island Queen R.M. Ballantyne

Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott

Rose in Bloom L.M. Alcott

An Old Fashioned Girl L.M. Alcott

Under the Lilacs L.M. Alcott

 Gourmet Potatoes

The Spanish Brothers by Deborah Alcock

Educational

The Thousand Year War in the Middle East Richard J. Maybury

Dumbing Us Down John Taylor Gatto

A Different Kind of Teacher John Taylor Gatto

And the greatest book of all...

The Holy Bible

And on my (very short) list of ones I want to read in the coming year...

His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut (I don't recommend this one--it was quite depressing!)

Leviticus

II Kings

Luke

Isaiah

The Lost Clue by Mrs. O.F. Walton

Assumptions That Affect Our Lives by Christian Overman

Our Father Abraham, Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson

The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

(when I get done with this one, I am going to have a party : D  It is a monster of a book!  Actually, a very good sort of monster--very enlightening, very educational!  At some times it is like Ice Cream, and other times it is like Tough, Dry Steak.  I am glad I am reading it : )

Walking Wisely by Charles Stanley

The Cross Triumphant by Florence M. Kingsley

The Bible--I want to try to finish this in one year, something I haven't done before : )

And many others---usually I just come across books that sound like something I want or need to read at the time, and so that is what I read : )  Not a very organized approach!

That's all I can think of for now : )

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WHAT have we done?!?!

We all like books.  (Who doesn't?)  Well, actually we LOVE books!   Especially old books.  And if there is a book for sale that is old and neat, (who cares what the inside looks like!!  JK!)  then we buy it!  The day before yesterday (23th), Yesterday (24th), and today there is a book sale in a town about 20 min. from us.  $3 for a paper sack of books!!!!!   WHO would not go to that!!  So, of course we went!!  the first day we were there only an hour (NOT enough time for all those books!) and yesterday for about 2 hours.  Still not enough time for all those books!!   This book store is moving to another state so they are trying to get rid of a lot of books.   I don't blame them!  Packing all those books!!  There was 3 small rooms a 1 huge room FULL of BOOKS!!  It was wonderful!!    I bought almost 2 sacks full.   But....where do I put them?? 

   Remember from one of our earlier posts Cassie and I moved into a SMALL~or should I say small room??  This is a 10' X 12' room!!   Now,  in this small room there is a bunk bed. And a LOOONG dresser. And small bookshelf. And a closet (a built in one). And beside one wall there are stacked boxes and more boxes. Our old closet was a BIG closet!  Longer than this room!  So, that is where all the boxes came from. (Now who let us get all that stuff!!) So....what were we talking about??  Oh yes....the books.  40 books.  Where am I going to put these 40 books?!  So I came up with a solution. At least I think it is a solution.  In between the stacks of boxes and our bed is a 1 foot space against the wall.   So I stacked them there....4 high!!  It looks kinda neat (because they are old) and kinda strange (because they are packed in there).  A picture??  Here you go:

You can see the boxes on the left, the bunk bed on the right and almost all the books in the middle.  (Not all are here...I'm reading one, and I gave a few to my younger sisters.)

 And my sisters??   I think they got just as many books too! 

And yes, I DO still LOVE books!! 

 I thought I would put a picture on here of my adorable little brother Isaiah.

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