Educating Emme
• Sep. 28, 2007 - Fall Into Reading 2007: My List
This post is cross posted from: http://frugaldomesticgoddess.blogspot.com
It's here! It's here! It's finally here! Fall into Reading 2007 at Callapidder Days blog! Woohoo!
Reading is one of the greatest joys of my life. I love the Lord. I love my children, my husband, and my family. And I LOVE to read!
Unfortunately I haven't had much time for reading. I haven't MADE the time, and I really need to!
The Fall into Reading Challenge is exactly what I need to jumpstart my way back into a reading frenzy! I am so excited about the books I've chosen as well! I'm excited about each and every one of them.
Here are the books that I am going to challenge myself to read during the autumn, my most favorite season:
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I've started this book already, but just barely! I read "The Kite Runner" last year and it was in my top 10 favorite books of the year. Different from anything else I've read and full of meaning.
2. Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani. This is the 2nd in the Big Stone Gap Trilogy. I loved the first in the series and I am sure that I will enjoy the other two just as much!
3. Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir. I have so been looking forward to reading this book! I have it on my bookshelf now and can't wait to get to it!
4. Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery. The 4th in the Anne of Green Gables series. I am totally and completely smitten with Anne and will be heartbroken when the series comes to an end! I am savoring the books and reading only one every 4 months or so!
5. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Every year in October I choose one creepy, frightening book -- and this is going to be the one for 2007! I've heard really great things about it.
6. A Health Unto His Majesty by Jean Plaidy. This is historical fiction about Charles II during the restoration period. I just taught Emme about Charles II and thought he sounded interesting! I just noticed last night that I had this book on my shelf!
7. Love Finds a Home by Janette Oke. The very last in the "Love Comes Softly" series! I've been putting off reading this because I haven't wanted it to come to an end. *sigh*
8. Miss Invisible by Laura Jensen Walker. I actually won this from Callapidder Days blog! It has really great reviews! I can't wait to read it!
9. The Awakening by Kate Chopin. I try to add in one classic during each challenge. This one is going to be my choice for fall. A scandalous book in the early 1900s, it was banned for decades!
10. Thorn in My Heart by Liz Curtis Higgs. I am so excited to read this one too! Ack! I order books that I am dying to read and then I get them and put them on my shelf and forget about them!
11.: Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler. This is an unlikely book in my collection. I got it from my sister and I am intrigued with its description!
12. The Perfect Royal Mistress by Diane Haeger. Another book I've been dying to read and another book about Charles II! I ordered this book nearly a year ago and it has been collecting dust, poor book!
Those are the 12 books that I am challenging myself to read during Fall into Reading 2007!
Here are other things I will be reading that are not a part of my list:
Timothy 2 - Book of Revelations in the Bible
I hope you've enjoyed reading my book list and if you haven't already, I hope you will join me in this challenge!
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• Sep. 29, 2007 - Nice to "See" you!
We've had a challenging end of summer and a busy Fall pick-up. We're hoping to get into a better school routine here. Once we get the "HAVE TOs" done then the leisure reading can fall into its place. Your book list for yourself is almost overwhelming to me. Good for you. I enjoy a good book - now and again. I read what I MUST read for the kids school (I try to read everything they read first or at least with them) and by then my reading desire has been satisfied. So you see I am NOT a voracious reader like you and my dh and ds are. I will have to try to compile a list of "want tos" for me too. Even if I read one book I want to read that would be fun.
Edited by buffalorock on Sep. 29, 2007 at 11:10 AM